New Year's Day Fun - Before AND After

We had a pretty quiet New Year's Eve, after the kids went to bed the 'adults' (scary to say that) kept up the family tradition of Fondue. Otherwise, no clubbing or watching balls drop or anything crazy like that.


Then on New Year's Day, it was pretty casual as well. The kiddos of course love to be home. And what we're finding these days is that if the two of them are together, and it's quiet - there is probably some type of trouble brewing. Well, this was one of those days.





The other important fact in this story is that when we moved into this house, we didn't have any towel bars, toilet paper holders, shelves, anything really in the bathrooms. So that was one of our first tasks, only to realize that toilet paper ON the roll is BIG fun for toddlers. So we've been storing items up on the sink vanity - trying to keep it out of reach. Well, our kids are resourcesful, and this is what happened.

Notice how Andrew is just watching from a distance and WHO the real instigator was on this?? Yes, that is how it is most of the time....

Then soon after, we headed to Lowe's to pick out a cabinet that could be hung high up on the wall. It won't stop them, but hopefully it will slow them down at least. for now.

Christmas

We had several Christmas celebrations this year. The first was on Sunday the 23rd with a trip to Pine Island. We were at Grandma and Grandpa's place with Katrine and Tony, Wanda and Sean, Grandma Bea and Grandpa Norm as well. It was a ton of fun! The kids slowly got into the spirit by ripping the paper, but wanted to play for extended periods of time with each item they received, so they didn't want to move on to the next item. But overall, they had a blast! The drive home wasn't as much fun as we had gotten a few inches of new snow during the day and it was blowing and drifting quite a bit. But, with taking our time, we eventually made it back home for #2.

We hosted Christmas Eve at our house with Oma, Uncle and Uncle Chris over. The kids loved running around the house and Cailin kept looking at the tree with all the 'loot' under it and wanting to open presents. She played "santa" this year by delivering presents to everyone throughout the night.

Then of course Santa came Christmas Eve at our house. So when the kids got up, Cailin was very curious to see what this meant. She had been somewhat scared of Santa before, so this was interesting now. When she got into the living room she said "mom, Santa really did come AND he left presents!" She was so excited. So we spent most of the rest of the day opening presents and stockings and then Mike was putting toys together and then playing with them. Mike said his favorite toy was one of Andrew's car track presents. Funny!

We are truly blessed and had a wonderful Christmas, healthy and happy!