Christmas Eve

Waiting for Santa!!!

For the fourth Christmas in a row, we went to Powell Gardens for "Breakfast with Santa." We can not say how enjoyable this annual outing is for us. We again were able to go on a weekday and were the only family there! Santa rode with the boys on the train, took them around the solarium showing them all the 12 days of Christmas motif. Mrs. Claus read to the boys, and the wonderful volunteer was enourmously patient with the boys, showing them how to make reindeer out of their hand prints.

As always, the water in the solarium was a huge draw!!! They had "seven swans a swimming" this year.

Kye made sure Santa saw all the hidden drummers.

We highly recommend the short drive to Powell Gardens if you live in the KC area. It is a wonderful time for our family!

SNOW DAY!!!

We had a snow day in December, by late afternoon the snow had stopped and we were able to go a couple of blocks to the elementary school down the street and do some sledding.

Kye and Mommy made snow angels

Kris had more fun eating snow and playing on the playground equipment

Kye got really good at speeding down hill!

My three boys

Basketball is upon us again and Dave took extra time to spend with the boys this weekend. They put up the Christmas trees together, cut down the cannas together, they even did bedtime reading all together. You can almost see Kye's missing tooth and the other about to fall out in this picture. More on that later.

Paghetti!!!!

Our sweet little Kristopher has entered that phase of eating tons one day and nothing the next. One meal we are assured that he will eat however is "PAGHETTI!!!!" He LOVES it. He can't get it into his mouth fast enough as you can see by the abandonment of the fork for both of his hands.

Halloween

We had lots of Halloween activities leading up to the big day. We had the 1st grade pumpkin carving night at school that Mommy got to go to, yes she worked with knives and didn't attempt to cut of any fingers this time! The kids had some Halloween carols to sing to us and let me tell you how cute they were!

Kye opted to be an "ARMY Guy, like BaBa" so Mommy opted for Kris to be a Navy guy. We went to the zoo and gots loads of candy, then Daddy escorted the boys for the big night. They got more "special" treats from our wonderful neighbors than they could have imagined.

Brothers

Last weekend, Kye was practicing baseball with his metal bat. Kris got really excited and wanted a turn too and just as Kye was swinging, Kris ran up to him. He caught Kris in the cheek, not the eye fortunately, but he looks like he won the prize fight!
Kye is also loosing his front tooth, it's wiggling all over the place!