All Cleaned Up

Are these not the cutest boys ever! I'm surprised I actually got a good picture of all 3 of them looking at the camera. I had to get a picture of them all dressed in the new clothes that Grandma and Grandpa bought for them. And the funny thing is that what they are wearing totally match their personalities. Nate is totally my social, smarty-pants kind of boy and so his clothes totally match him. Josh is wearing a kind of rock-star kind of shirt and he's very much my stubborn, no-one-pushes-me-around kind of kid. And Colton is my sweet, easy-going, happy baby who looks so handsome and innocent. I love them to pieces. They are so different and yet that's OK. They bring so much life to our house and let's not forget all the work they create for me but even with that they are totally worth it. They are such great boys, I couldn't have asked for better.

Bring on Christmas

Josh is opening is Christmas Eve gift!

Nate opens his gift, the Grabber, as he says: "This is what I've always wanted!"

Colton was satisfied with just playing with the wrapping paper!

Nate holds up his Knight's dress up clothes that Santa brought him!

Josh checks out all his loot that Santa brought him!

Nate and Josh looking at everything.

Colton is rolling all over playing with his gifts.

All the boys begin opening up some presents from under the tree.

Nate holds up a new book from Uncle Jason, Aunt Tilisa and Sofie. He loves these I Spy books.

Colton is playing with the ribbon instead of opening his present.

Opening more presents.

And more presents being opened.

Colton is posing in front of the aftermath mess of Christmas morning.

Sir Nathan the Knight!

All my boys on Christmas morning.

Colton has an entire piece of the Gerber baby fruit wheels in his mouth. He got those in his stocking and has really enjoyed them. Isn't that a precious face!

Josh hamming itup in his new seat, and yes his face is greasy because of lotion. His face is so extremely dried out right now.

All the boys and their shiny faces. They are playing with all their new toys.

They had a good Christmas. Pretty much whatever Nate or Josh got they both said they are sharing and can play with all of it. What good boys I have. They were completely satisfied and loved everything that they got. Colton just spent the day rolling all over the floor and getting into everything. He's becoming very mobile. We had a really good day. We had a way yummy ham and some great rolls. Then we sat around and watched lots of movies and played with toys. It was a nice relaxing day. And just to let everyone know, if you walk into our house you'd never know we had Christmas. Danny let me sleep in yesterday and when I got up the tree was gone, thrown out front. All the ornaments sat in a pile. He had taken all the toys downstairs. Then he took all the lights off the house and put away and then had me help him put all the decorations away. I know, he's crazy. He said people were driving by and giving him weird looks for taking the lights down as well as him outside washing all our vehicles. So, any hints of Christmas having been here is completely gone from our house now! That would be my husband for you. We hope you all had a great Christmas too!

Alone time

So, today, after church I really needed a nap. I got Colton to sleep and then told Nate and Josh to get in their beds for quiet time. Nate went to his bed, all be it, relunctantly, Danny read a book to Josh to help him settle down. Then Danny joined me in our room for a much needed nap. It wasn't a long one, Colton woke up after only 30 minutes, and so we were up at that point. I don't know if Josh ever went to sleep or not but I heard him coughing non stop in bed so we had him get up and get a drink. Nate did take a nap, and it was a good one at least one that I would have liked to have. When we finally awoke, I promised to make a goodie with him and he chose fudge. So that's what we proceeded to do. He was cranky and irritable with Josh the whole time. And when it was done he went down stairs and told Josh not to come down and told me he needed some "alone time." I just had to laugh at that, because I totally agreed that he needed some. Isn't it ironic that kids just don't get that mom's need some alone time now and again too. But, anyways, while respected his needs we couldn't allow him to go the "toy room" for his alone time and not allow Josh to play. So we told him that he would get some toys and go to his room or our room. And to our room he went with toys and the request for a movie. And of course he reminded me not to let Josh come in. We granted him his wish and after the movie he came out and was much better. He may be only 5 but sometimes he acts much older. It's times like these that I realize that they have big spirits wrapped up in little tiny bodies and they deserve more respect than we give them.