Christmas 2009

This year we had the best Christmas yet since we've had the boys. This is the first year that both of them were really into Christmas and were so excited about it. (Well, I say both of them; Waylon wasn't quite so into it as Wyatt, but still, he understood a lot more than in previous years.)

I wanted to post this picture to show off their stockings, I was really impressed with how they turned out!

For weeks leading up to Christmas, we'd talked about the meaning of Christmas being Jesus' birthday and that we'd be getting presents to celebrate. It would just melt my heart when I would ask them whose birthday was on Christmas & they'd say "Desus." Wyatt was so excited that he'd say on occasion, "I just want to hurry up Christmas!" How stinkin cute is that?!?

I've tried since we've had the boys to come up with some of our own family traditions. We tried the new pajamas for Christmas thing, but that didn't work out so well since my kids have a major aversion to PJ's. We don't do cookies for Santa because Way has an egg allergy and they're both scared of Santa. The only things we do is get new ornaments every year & go to look at Christmas lights. I'm hoping as they get older to add to our list of traditions! This year, Waylon made several ornaments at school to contribute to our 2009 collection. I had to include pictures of them all because they're so precious!

Here's our 2009 ornament that I had done

These are the ones Waylon made at school

This year, instead of driving around numerous neighborhoods we took the boys & my niece Kaelyn over to my work to see the Christmas lights around the pond. This way they could get out, walk the pond and get up close to the lights. They absolutely had a blast and didn't want to leave! Even now, every time we go to town Waylon says he wants to go to Mommy's work and see lights.

The view from across the pond (sorry for the poor quality)

Kaelyn, Waylon & Wyatt

Christmas morning we got up at 5:00 (oh yeah, you read that right, 5:00 AM, seriously) and let the boys open their presents. Wyatt was very much in to it, judging especially by the array of opened and tossed aside gifts surrounding him!!

Waylon was mad because we wouldn't let him play with the camcorder so he didn't want to participate. Every time we'd hand him a gift he'd say, "I don't want it," so Momma & Daddy ended up opening most of his gifts. However, once he saw the opened packages he was super impressed by his scooter and even more so by his Lightning McQueen laptop. Every time anyone would ask him what he wanted for Christmas, he'd say "a computer." For Waylon to voice his opinion and tell us something he really wanted was huge, so of course we had to get him his "computer." After he opened that, we pretty much hung up the hope of him opening anything else since he was so into it!

On Saturday we went over to Nana & Poppa's house to do Christmas with my family. We had such a great time and lots of wonderful food!!

Tyler, Kaelyn, Wyatt & Waylon

We have been so blessed throughout this year. We hope that all of you have also, that you all had a Merry Christmas, and we wish you all a Happy New Year!!

Waylon's Christmas Program

Tuesday night Waylon had his very first ever Christmas Program! It was so cute and we are so proud of him. He stayed on the stage and did quite a bit of the dance that went along with the song. Of course, we couldn't hear if he was singing or not, but his absolute cuteness with that dance made up for the lack of singing! I wish I could upload the video, but I'm not computer savvy enough to figure out how to get the video from my DVD onto the computer to upload it to here. Oh well, take my word for it, it was one of my proudest mommy moments to date!! Yay Waylon!! Way to go!!

If this week gets any better, I think I might just cry

It's only Wednesday. Wow. This week has been pretty eventful already, and we're barely halfway through. Let's start at the beginning.




Monday morning I had a dentist appointment first thing. If that's not a sign of things to come, I don't know what is. I mean, seriously, who makes a dentist appointment for first thing on a Monday! Ridiculous, I know. It's almost like an omen of things to come. Anyway, I took Waylon to school, left Wyatt with Nana at her office with big plans to be Nana's "helper" for the morning. My appointment was at 9:00 for fillings and 10:00 for a cleaning. Well, it took until about 10:30 for my fillings to get finished due to a very difficult top tooth, but that's beside the point. Let me just take a minute to run off track and say that I absolutely HATE going to the dentist!! Like I wish I was a drug taker so I could pop some kind of happy pill before I go. I've never had a bad experience, but the thought of the possibility of a bad experience really freaks me out. So this hour & a half filling business was not making me feel so hot about ever going back. Thank the Lord for the sweet soul who invented the iPod. Back on track now. So it's about 11:00, I'm finishing up with my cleaning and my phone rings. It's Nana calling to say that I need to hurry back because Wyatt has hit his brow on a table and stitches may be necessary. Lovely. Mad rush ensued to meet Mom back at my house to get Wyatt to the doctor. By now, it's about 11:30 and the girl at the office says they can see us at 2:30. OK. So after I not so politely inquire what the heck am I supposed to do for 3 hours with my kid and his bleeding head, miraculously a 12:30 appointment has opened up!



We get to Dr. H's office (and by now I'm only looking a little bit like Quasimodo with my puffed up paralytic, drooling half of my face, but at least my speech wasn't quite so slurred by this point) and they got Wyatt right back, placed him on a papoose board and gave him 4 pretty blue stitches on his noggin. He did not do so hot, was so mad that he was strapped down and kept screaming, "I'm done!! Let me out!! I'm all done!! I want my sticker!!!" After it was over & done, he was completely fine, wanted to get his sticker and go see the ducks. I swear, kids are so resilient! The next day he was at home looking in the mirror at himself and said, "Mommy, these my titches. I like them!"

Wyatt and his "titches"; they're really hard to see in this picture, but it's his left eyebrow. He doesn't sit still long enough for me to get a good picture of it!

The rest of the week so far has been a little crappy just because I feel icky. I went home early from work Monday night because we were overstaffed and my mouth was killing me, then Tuesday I was supposed to go in to work at 11, but they didn't need me, then tonight I wasn't able to go because people don't generally take too kindly to you dripping snot on their brand new baby. I can't imagine why not....

So, this week has to get better, I've got to get better cause I've got big plans for this weekend including a cookie exchange, shopping with my sister, getting stitches removed, a birthday party, and a Christmas Parade. Geez, I'm tired already!