Merry Christmas

Life just doesn't get any better than this. . . we enjoyed the holidays with our wonderful family and Max just had the best time ever! The festivities began on Christmas Eve with my family. It was great to see everyone. Being the only kiddo under 13 in the family, Max was the star of the show. We don't have too many pictures because he wouldn't sit still long enough. He was too busy running around the house exploring.

Max was so excited Christmas morning to see that Santa had indeed arrived. He didn't know what to play with first! The easel won out until he had every magnetic letter on the board and then he moved on to his new kitchen. He was so excited about the kitchen that we couldn't get him to open anything else! Once he finally opened his play food he was in heaven. I love the way he is storing his Spanish rice in the microwave. The rest of Christmas morning was spent in our new home enjoying the beautiful snow and each others company.

At lunch time we were off to the Dull's for more celebrating, and of course presents! Max always loves seeing his cousins and yesterday was no different. Max got tons of fun stuff. Including a baby that we are hoping will help him to prepare for the arrival of baby number two, although is anyone ever really prepared?

The festivities are still far from over. We have three more events planned for today and tomorrow. Unfortunatly all three of us are a bit under the weather, so we may have to play it by ear. We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday with friends and family!

Sugar Cookies

Max had such a fun night. We made sugar cookies - thanks to the Trader Joe's Decorate It Yourself kit. Max mixed everything together, or at least he turned on the Kitchen Aid. He cut the dough out. He loved using the little cookie cutters, I think his favorite was the snowman.

Even more fun than the cutting was the decorating! Max worked hard with Daddy to sprinkle each and every cookie perfectly. The holidays are just so much fun, especially when we get to share them with Max.

Big Brother To Be

Our big boy will be a big brother this spring. Baby #2 is due on May first and we are thrilled that our family is growing. Max is well aware that there is a baby in mommy's tummy. He kisses my belly button and says he loves the baby. Although when we ask if he is going to be a big brother he is quick to say no. We will have to work on that.

Things are going well with the pregnancy. We had the big ultrasound last week and everything looks great. We didn't find out the gender - we loved the surprise with Max and are looking forward to the surprise again.

As preparation for baby's arrival we had Max's big boy furniture delivered yesterday. He is so excited, he could have climbed up and down the ladder of his bunk bed all day long. We had to drag him out of his new room. I only hope that he will be this excited when it is time to sleep in his new bed.

Tis the Season

Nothing says Christmas like a nativity and a Christmas tree. With the chaos of moving that is about all we are putting out this year. Max has been so excited about the Christmas trees he is seeing all over the place. On Friday morning I explained that we would be getting our tree that day. Max was all excited. We hit the local tree stand and found a pretty cute tree if I do say so myself. Max was so proud to help daddy hold up our tree.




Once we got home it was off to bed for Max while I fought with the lights on the tree. He lit up in the morning when he came downstairs to see his very own 'tee'. Today we spent decorating the tree with some very special ornaments. The only ones Max cared about were the three choo-choo cars, I guess I shouldn't be surprised!

Here Comes Santa Claus

What a fun morning. We met up with Brian's siblings and four of our nieces and nephews at the Museum of Transportation. We started out in the Creation Station - Max had only one thing on his mind - the train table. I'm sure he will be thrilled when we set up his train table again at the new house. He played with the trains the entire time. A cute little girl came up and he even shared his trains. He handed two trains over to her without prompting - maybe he can learn to share. We tried to get him to wear a Santa hat and he wasn't to wild about it.

The Creation Station wasn't the only attraction. The big guy himself made an appearance - by trolley rather than sled but it was still pretty cute. We waited on the trolley to see Santa up close and Max was so excited. Then it was time for him to sit with Santa and of course he wasn't nearly as excited. He did pose for one picture with Santa - and mom of course.

Now we are gearing up for the big move tomorrow. Hard to believe, but after five years of talking about moving tomorrow is the day!

So Thankful!

We have so much to be thankful for - today and every day. Top on our list is our amazing little man and our wonderful families. We are lucky enough to have all of Brian's siblings in town so Max is getting lots of fun cousin time. In fact he took cousin's Andrew's crazy glasses and wouldn't take them off.

After a wonderful lunch with the Dull's we were off to my parent's house for a second dinner. Max enjoyed dinner but I think he enjoyed sitting on the couch watching TV with Nonna and Nonna. Notice how he is rubbing his chin - this is the new thing he does when he is thinking about something. He cracks us up with his little thinking chin rub move.

Yet another wonderful holiday with our wonderful family. We also closed on our new house yesterday. How did we get so lucky!?

Life with Nonna and Nonno

Our house is officially sold. We have been living with my parents for about three weeks and things couldn't be going any better - although we did have to outsource the cat to a neighbor after a pretty ugly cat fight our first night.

Max just loves all of the extra attention, and Brian and I must admit it is nice to have Nonna take care of baths and dressing Max in the mornings. I think Max is going to be in for a rude awakening when we move into the new house he no longer has four people devoted solely to him. He loves Nonna's little train, although he spends most of his time trying to make it derail.

He also loves snuggling on the couch and giving Piglet kisses. Today Max and I spent time making cookies for Nonno Mason's birthday. He loved pouring in all the ingredients - I think the eggs were his favorite.

All in all, things are going very well. We close on the new house the day before Thanksgiving and we plan on moving in that Saturday - Brian was willing to move on Friday, he might miss all the black Friday deals!