Merry Christmas!

We hope that everyone had a very nice Christmas! Ours was wonderful. We actuallly (cheated) a little and decided to open presents on Saturday (Christmas Eve) instead of on Sunday. We kept thinking about Sunday and it just stressed us out thinking about going to church and doing presents. So, we decided it would be more relaxing to open presents on Saturday and then go to Christmas Eve church service. The kids played with their toys all day Saturday and then Sunday we went to church first thing and came home for lunch then they had all day to play again. Abigail and I took good naps on Sunday after church while the boys played and Kevin read one of his books. It was relaxing both on Saturday and Sunday. So, I'm glad we did it that way!

The boys got some blocks for Christmas and tools. And TJ got a car track. Caleb got a lot of books for him to read and a little notebook that he is enjoying writing in. Abigail got a baby doll and a pink phone. Kevin got books and some new clothes. I got some good smelling lotions which I love and some nice cozy slippers. One of our favorite parts of Christmas was hearing Caleb sing in church. He loves to sing and loves to sing Christmas carols. We usually sit in the 3rd row or sometimes the 1st row if we are late and the last few Sundays Caleb has been belting out the Christmas carols. It makes Kevin and I smile. I even have to keep myself from chuckling...its very cute. He sings his heart out and people around us usually smile as well cause they can hear him. I think that maybe one of the times the music director could hear Caleb cause he kept looking over at us and smiling!

We pray you all had a wonderful Christmas as well and that you were able to celebrate Christ's birth! Happy Birthday Jesus! We are thankful Jesus was born!

Caleb, cake, Connect 4, cookies

I forgot to put pictures up about Caleb's birthday. He turned 5 on December 13th. He picked cheese fondue for dinner and picked a Buttermilk devil's food cake with butter cream frosting for dessert. It ended up being a busy day for us on his birthday. We had Bible study in the morning and then I made his cake during rest time then we had dinner, went to Caleb's basketball practice, and came home for dessert. Caleb got some books, Connect 4, and some clothes for his birthday. We have been playing lots of Connect 4. Abigail even likes to put the pieces in and try to play.

We made some sugar cookies with butter cream frosting for Christmas today. It was fun. The boys helped me to cut and bake the cookies and then we frosted and put sprinkles on them when Kevin got home! Thankfully, Kevin has tomorrow and Monday off and will take the next Friday off as well. He has been busy with work lately so its nice to have him home.

Enjoy pics!

TJ's nose

I just thought I'd update and let you know that TJ's nose is not broken. We went to the doctor and she said it did not look broken, but there was quite a bit of swelling in there. So, as long as it heals just fine and the swelling goes down then he will be fine. He has been feeling fine so far today.

My energy filled TJ

So, TJ got his cast off on Thursday last week and now we are going to take him to the doctor's this afternoon to get his nose checked. We had some friends over this morning for a cookie exchange playdate. The kids were running in a circle and TJ and another boy ran into each other. The other boy got hit in his head and is fine and TJ got hit in his nose. Lots of blood coming out and he has a nice bruise on his nose. Don't think its broken, but we are going to take him to the doctor this afternoon and have it checked out. So, we'll see! Ah...cause life is just not full of adventure with 3 kids anyways! My sweet TJ keeps us smiling for sure!

Cast off and New glasses

Yes...TJ got his cast off this morning!!! Yay! We are all very glad for that! Kevin took him to the appt and said he did well getting his cast off as they used some weird sounding saw thing. They put an ace bandage on him and he was allowed to take it off later in the morning. However, it did not come off until Kevin got home from work. I tried, but he just kept crying every time I tried. So, I wimped out and decided to just let Kevin do it. He has a lot of dead skin cells that itch him a lot. I put lotion on him quite a bit today and he got a shower this evening. They took the pins out and he has 2 little holes that now have bandaids on. He can have a bath and submerge his arm on Saturday night. That might be an extra long bath for our little man! We did go outside and play and he was able to ride his bike for a small walk. He's a little shaky on it, but he enjoyed the freedom. Now, we just have to get him to start using his arm more and teach his muscles how to move again. I'm hoping that won't be too big of a deal. We'll see. He didn't want to move it much today, but it was also the first day.

Caleb had to get new glasses last week. Before Thanksgiving, we were all raking leaves and Kevin was mowing the leaves. Caleb took his sweatshirt off and took his glasses off and then never put them back on. Therefore, they either got raked up or mowed and we couldn't find them anywhere. Thankfully, they weren't very expensive at Walmart so we went back to Walmart and bought 2 new pairs and got them last week. They look very similar to the other ones.