Christmas Morning

We woke up Christmas morning excited to see what Santa had brought while we were sleeping...

Benjamin and Thomas loved all of their presents from Santa and we had such a fun morning playing with everything and eating a delicious breakfast casserole that Auntie made for everyone!

Christmas Eve

This year we had Christmas Eve at our house and it was so much fun. It was also nice that Thomas was still able to stay on his regular schedule.

I wanted to make sure I got pictures of our decor before everyone arrived.

Thomas's favorite toy was his new crawl around car!  He loves it!

We had a fabulous evening! We opened presents from family and enjoyed a fabulous meal! Then we tucked in to await Santa's arrival Christmas morning.

Holiday Favorites

A few of my favorite pictures from the holidays before I post Christmas...

Brotherly love...

Benjamin has been working HARD on getting that ring finger up for the "Where is Thumbkin" song!" and he finally mastered it!

The gingerbread house that we made with our neighbors...

Benjamin made this sweet ornament for the Thanksgiving tree at school but I loved it so much it had to go on our Christmas tree.  His teacher asked him what he was thankful for and his response, "my Thomas."  The sweetest thing ever.

We spent time with Aunt Matt and GiGi and Popi...

Being silly in the car...

And cuddled up on the couch with Auntie to watch a movie.

Downtown Aquarium

We hope you had a very merry Christmas, I know we sure did and we have a lot to recap but first I wanted to share the pictures from the date Benjamin and I had to the Downtown Aquarium.

We had so much fun! We rode the train and the carousel 3 times each and saw the white tiger exhibit twice!  Such a fun day with my little love bug. 

Christmas Program

Last week the boys had their Christmas program at school and it was adorable!  They sang the cutest Santa Clause song and they were so cute!

And Benjamin got to see Santa again! We didn't bring Thomas to see Santa again since he didn't care for him too much last time but we did make sure to tell Santa what is on Thomas's list! 

8 Months!

On Wednesday Thomas turned 8 months old!  Can you believe it?!  I can't!  Thomas is getting so big, so fast!  He is thiiiiis close to crawling, he has gone forward with 1 arm and leg and I know once he figures out that if he moves the others he can go somewhere he will be on the move in no time.  Thomas continues to be a fantastic eater!  He takes a bottle 4 times a day and is eating food twice a day, usually late morning and early afternoon.  So far he has like everything that he has had, although, I don't think that peas and carrots are super high on his list of favorites!  The other day Benjamin gave Thomas a big piece of strawberry and he was just gumming away on it and he loved it!  Thomas is babbling all day long and his favorite word right now is "dada."  I know it won't be long before I get to hear "mama."  He loves patty cake and it is so cute to watch him clap his hands and smile.  And smile he does!  Thomas is THE happiest baby with the biggest, cutest, smile.  And he is the best snuggler.  He gives me the biggest hugs and open mouth kisses in the afternoon when I pick him up from school and I just love it.  Thomas's other favorite is his big brother, Benjamin.  These two love to play together and it is just the cutest.  Benjamin is so sweet with "his baby" always giving him kisses and sharing his toys or reading him books.  It is seriously the cutest.  And I know Thomas can't wait to be on the move and keeping up with his big brother.