PETE is going on around here??? Seriously? I still have a freaking sunny playground as my background and my header picture is of my boys in shorts outside swinging??!?! Do I know it's DECEMBER...almost January? Oh my gosh, of course I realize this. I'm just becoming such a procrastinator! Maybe I've been busy, I dunno. ANYWAY - let's catch up, shall we?
So Thanksgiving was great; we went to Dennis and Trudy's house in SC which is where Greg took our wonderful Christmas picture out on the deck - MANY THANKS TO YOU ALL for lending us the background and photographer ;) There are just like five white ducks who live on the lake there, and they came right up to the dock and we fed them several pieces of bread, after all it was Thanksgiving, everybody gets to pig out! Sawyer loved throwing it far away and making them race to it. Sawyer ate a crescent roll and goldfish for dinner after crackers with a cranberry/cream cheese dip. I was shocked, because last Christmas he ate the cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, stuffing, turkey and gravy...and this year he eats goldfish. Really? This is the same child who can go no longer than 25 minutes without ingesting something. He is constantly eating, which I guess is because he is constantly growing. I feel like I've had to go up two sizes in pants for him since the summer because they just keep becoming too short. Anyway - Greyson slept through the entire Thanksgiving dinner and finally joined us for some baby food after we were all done eating. I mean he literally slept for like 4 hours that day. Sawyer, maybe 20 minutes. But we got a great picture of it. And this was before we ate!
We went to Christmasville in Rock Hill just like last year, too...and this year Greyson was scared of the Grinch reading his story instead of Sawyer, Sawyer really enjoyed watching the dance groups (3-10 year olds dancing -not very 3-10 year old-ish if you know what I mean...yikes- to Christmas music) perform, and we didn't last for the jingle bell parade, but we did enjoy everything else, like the horses and the trains and the "snow" (tiny bubbles) and the gingerbread house displays.
I got our house decorated for Christmas inside and out, even put up a tree this year!! It's on the wall above the fireplace, but hey it works!
Then Christmas came and the boys had a million presents to open, thanks to everyone for thinking of us and being SO generous...good grief these kids are spoiled! Sawyer was so funny opening the presents because he really could do it this year, like he'd tear the paper off and then study the front of whatever was inside, and then turn it around and look at the back, as if he was reading the boxes. So stinkin cute. Greyson tried to eat all the torn up wrapping paper and small pieces of things. He absolutely LOVED this giant stuffed dog that his sweet cousins gave him! He laughed at it and hugged it and everything. We set up a train table for them the night before and it was so much fun for us just anticipating their reactions to it the next morning. It's now taken the place of the coffee table in the living room, which was once looking like a grown up room that hadn't been taken over by toys, but that concept is long gone! The coffee table has been shunned to a spot in front of the window, poor thing. Oh well, it works. OH! Friday night before Christmas, we went up to this place in Kannapolis called Village Park and they have this little train that rides around all the Christmas lights in the park, and there's a fire pit where you can make your own s'mores, and Santa was there, and there were these singing bears that reminded me of those creepy mechanical characters in those creepy amusement park rides...but the kids were entertained, and they also had a light show "choreographed" to Christmas music in the amphitheater/pavilion thing. It was fun and we will definitely have to make that a yearly outing.
General updates: Greyson now has TWO top teeth, a third coming in on his right, he can say GO, he is eating big people food, he loves remote controls, he knows to say BA when he finds a ball, and he can sorta take a couple of steps on his own. He is standing very well now though. And for Sawyer - still not really talking, but is jumping and climbing on everything that sits still. He also got a nice hair cut last night if I do say so myself! ;)
Oh and we got a van. It's a Toyota Sienna and it's white and I love that I can push a button and the doors open for me! woohoo!
Sawyer: Hey mom, don't I look good behind the wheel of this sweet van?
Me: Why, yes, son - you do! In fact, you look SO good behind that wheel that I'm going to let you drive this van once you start driving you and your brother to high school! You'll be the coolest guys around! So lucky!
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