Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas! The boys had a great time in Lubbock with their Nana, Grandad, Aunts, Uncles and cousins. We left the Saturday before Christmas with 2 boys and 3 cats. We thought it would be better to take the cats to stay at G-Nanny's house until we move to Denver. Greg couldn't contemplate taking them, the boys and all of our stuff at the same time up to Denver when we move. We'll pick the cats up from Lubbock in early Feb. when we get back from our cruise (Greg's sales meeting) and pick the boys up from Nana and Grandad's house. We all had a great time in Lubbock, except that Uncle Kent gave everybody his cold for Christmas, which we are still getting over. My mom calls it his gift that keeps on giving.



Nana made the boys rocking chairs for Christmas that have pictures of them, family and their favorite things from the first year of their lives. They love looking at all of the pictures, especially L, I often see him sitting on the floor next to his chair pointing out the pictures of people.




We got R a laptop for Christmas. He loves buttons and anything electronic, so now he has his own computer to play with, instead of Greg's.



L loves to vacuum and loves to watch me do so as well. So he got his own for Christmas. My mom said that while she was vacuuming at her house, L went and got his and followed her around.



This is L's best friend, Mr. G. He is G-Nanny's new husband and L just loves him. He immediately wants to be held by him every time he sees him.



Both boys had a great time with their Uncle Kent and Aunt Tara. They were so excited to move near them in Denver, but now they might be moving to Singapore. We'll have to visit! L loved playing with his "Ka-Ka" (which he called Kent). L is fearless, and Kent loved to swing him around and rough-house with him. R is more cautious, but he had fun playing with him, too.



We made our usual stop at Cracker Barrel on our way to Lubbock. Whenever we stop and have to wait for a table, R goes straight to the box of cars on the floor. It has become $7 more expensive to eat at Cracker Barrel since we bought R his 3rd car from there (if not he breaks down and cries when we put the car back - we're going to put a stop to that). L liked this red cowboy hat here, but fortunately wasn't so attached to it that we had to buy it.



R loved hanging out with his Grandad. Grandad was supposed to be trying to get R to take a nap in this picture, but it apparently it went the other way around.



R looks like such a big boy in this picture walking around Aunt Conny's new house. They don't really look like babies anymore, more like little boys.



Ms. Cindi gave the boys a super cool tunnel for Christmas. They love to crawl through it, sit in it and chase it each around it.



L loves to eat Nana's spaghetti and it shows all over his face! I think he gained a little of his chunkiness back while staying with his Nana. It must have been the sausages for breakfast.

New things:

Greg told me that he was quietly watching the boys play the other day and he saw L divert R from what he was doing. Apparently, L was playing at his bead table and R came over and L didn't want to share. So instead of pushing or screaming, he calmly and gently guided R to another part of the room. He stood behind him and walked him to the puzzles and sat him down next to them. R proceeded to play with the puzzles and L went back to his table and had it all to himself.




I leave you with this picture. Everyday, L puts these 2 pieces (a boxcar and coal car) from his transportation puzzle inside the seat of his bus. Every night, I take them out and put them back in the puzzle and stack the puzzles back up in the shelf with this particular puzzle at the very bottom. Each day, L lifts the other puzzles up, without disturbing their pieces, picks these 2 puzzle pieces up and puts them back in his bus. I don't really know what it means, but it is a fun little game to play with him everyday.

There are more Christmas pictures to look at if you are interested on Shutterfly: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaNnLVs2bMmLDlg&emid=sharshar&linkid=link2