Christmas Cookies

The kids and I made Christmas cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve morning. I have been making cookies with Carter since he was really young. This year it was amazing at how good he was at it! He rolled out the dough, cut the shape, and frosted/decorated them all on his own. Mason also frosted some cookies but he ate most of it. I'm trying to wean him off sugar now. He is learning new words every day now and currently his favorite word is "candy cane." We had to move all our candy canes to the very top branches of our tree because he was grabbing them.

Carter's Vacation Memories

Our love for travel (which I wish we could do more) has definately been passed on to Carter. This past summer we went to Story Land for one night and to Martha's Vineyard for one week. Carter is still talking about both. He likes to lay in bed with us in the morning if Mason is not up yet and talk. He also likes to have us in his room before he goes to bed to talk about his day or whatever comes to mind. The past few months the topic of conversation always turns to our vacations and what we did. His memory amazes me. They are very specific and he remembers things I didn't even necessarily remember. It makes me so happy we have been able to take our kids on vacation and can't wait to do more.

Christmas Tree Hunt

We got our Christmas Tree last weekend. We started the morning by taking the kids to Demet Doughnuts.





After a breakfast of sugar we were off to find our tree.



Decorating







The kids are both really excited for Christmas. We listen to Christmas music all the time. Carter loves Dominic the Donkey and Mason loves Feliz Navidad. We have been having a lot of fun with this little guy too, who keeps appearing in the most random places!

Zoo Lights

We went to zoo lights with the cousins and the kids had a great time!







The kids in their pj's enjoying some hot chocolate after a cold night.

Birthday Parties

We had two birthday parties to go to recently. First we had Henry's birthday.


Our friend Jess had so many nice things at the party. She made every kid dinosaur tails and cute dinousaur cookies. There was also pizza which is Mason's favorite.




The following day we had Cameron's birthday. Cameron is one of Carter's friends from school. The party was at a bowling alley. We have never taken Carter bowling before but he really liked it!





When we got home from the party, Dave had a surprise for Carter in his room.

Carter is so excited to have Christmas lights in his room.

Daddy's Office and Aquarium

We brought the kids to the aquarium for the first time. First we stopped at Daddy's new office to drop off some stuff.

After assuring Carter there are no Great White Sharks at the aquarium, we were off!