Thursday, December 29, 2011

Christmas at our House

Santa came to our house last Thursday night, the 23rd. We started out the evening with a visit from our friends, the Mercers, from down the street. Dane just loves Lauren. She is so good to him. They decorated cookies together while I supervised and Latesha, Lauren's mom, held Reese. Lauren was so kind when Dane would dump a whole pile of sprinkles in one spot.

He loved eating the icing!

His hair is a little crazy because when Lauren got to our house Dane was still napping. He jumped up so quick when I told him Lauren was there.
Dane's cookies

It was funny because since I watched Dane decorate his cookies (licking the knife, then icing, then putting his little fingers all over the cookies) there is no way I could eat his. Lauren iced quite a few and left some at the house. I could eat those. The next morning several of Dane's were missing.....Dave got hungry in the middle of the night. I laughed and told him if he saw Dane decorate them he probably wouldn't have eaten them. He didn't really seem to care.


Dane was so sad when Lauren had to leave. He kept asking her, "Please stay." I distracted him by reminding him we had to get ready for Santa to visit.


Once Dane and Reese were bathed and in their pjs I tried to take a picture of them by the tree. Reese was crying a bit and Dane was trying to calm him. Finally Dane said, "Take him mommy. He's crying."

We laid Reese on a pillow, which he didn't like either. He just wanted to go to bed!

Dane had his cookies on a plate for Santa and he was excited.

He then went to sprinkle out his reindeer food that he got from Santa on the Santa Express.

He sprinkled it on the patio.


Finally, he was ready for bed. He went to bed really well and I was surprised because he was so excited.


Not long after that Santa delievered all of the gifts.

The next morning I got up with Reese at 6:00. He took his morning bottle and I kept waiting for Dane to call my name. About 7:00 Reese fell back asleep and Dane was still sleeping. I ended up laying in bed and fell asleep as well. It was about 8:15 when I heard Dane call my name. Right away he yelled, "Santa" and went running down the hall.

Checking out the presents

I wanted to get his picture next to the tree and he just couldn't take his eyes off the presents.

Finally, time to open. We checked the tag together to find one for Dane.

He loved it that Santa used "Thomas the Train" wrapping paper.

He helped Reese open his gifts.

After he would open one he would say, "Anymore for Dane?"

I loved watching him get so excited.

He piled all of Reese's gifts on and around his chair.



Reese slept through the entire present opening.

Last thing to open, a stocking.

It was so fun to have the magic of Christmas in our house this year. I can only imagine how he will be in the next few years and the fun we will have with our two sweet boys!

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