Heather gave each of the boys cash for Christmas. Today she took them out to shop for toys with that cash. First she filled them full of chocolate chip pancakes and hot chocolate, THEN she took them to the toy store.
From what I am told, Big C selected this bus pretty early on. Despite being shown numerous other options, his heart was set on it. He even had a little bit extra left over to get a red motorcycle. FANTASTIC!!
After a successful morning of feeding, wrangling and shopping with two young children, Heather handed me the children with their new boxes of toys that needed constructing and then bailed.
I am no fool, and this is not my first rodeo. I flipped on a video to distract the boys and set to work constructing the bus. Every 5 minutes BigC would turn around and ask me if it was done. He wanted that BUS!
Since I am a superstar and have the knack...oh wait...since I had a friend over and got some help, we got it done and he was off. He played with it all day. He watched TV while leaning out of the chair and resting an arm on it. He played with it some more. He brought it to the party that we went to this evening...it went everywhere.
Then for the final test. It wasn't even a question. He pulled that bad boy into the bed with him and went to sleep. A winner!!!
The boys loved coming to mommy's work and getting a gift from Santa. Santa had been shopping on usedottawa and managed to score them some great Playmobil items second hand. Hey, they don't care if it is new or not-they werethrilled!
Here comes Santa Clause!
Monkey's birthday started off with snuggles and a new (to him) Leapster video game. Then we had a bunch of our local family over to celebrate with him.
He had a fabulous time and especially loved the globe that Grandpa got him...I mean, the box that it came in : )
An old school projector (I saw remember one of these in grade 2):
Way to go Matthew.
From what I am told, Big C selected this bus pretty early on. Despite being shown numerous other options, his heart was set on it. He even had a little bit extra left over to get a red motorcycle. FANTASTIC!!
After a successful morning of feeding, wrangling and shopping with two young children, Heather handed me the children with their new boxes of toys that needed constructing and then bailed.
I am no fool, and this is not my first rodeo. I flipped on a video to distract the boys and set to work constructing the bus. Every 5 minutes BigC would turn around and ask me if it was done. He wanted that BUS!
Since I am a superstar and have the knack...oh wait...since I had a friend over and got some help, we got it done and he was off. He played with it all day. He watched TV while leaning out of the chair and resting an arm on it. He played with it some more. He brought it to the party that we went to this evening...it went everywhere.
and Big C was stoked about his playmobil Firetruck from his big brother. 
Since Monkey has an allowance this was his first Christmas buying gifts for people.
The shopping trip with H to be done later this week was super popular:
The games from their cousins:
Mommy snuck in a snuggle...
The boys hung their stockings by the chimney with care...
