Who Says Boys Can't Dance

Logan is very "boy" and almost always wants to play football, "catch", chase, dinosaurs, wrestling, and the latest....sword fighting. So I was surprised when today he told me he wanted to put on his "tapping suit". So decked out in his suit with his "tap shoes" aka his dress shoes on, he did quite an entertaining performance for me. I didn't even know he knew what tap dancing was!!

Shopping Cart & Play Food

I really don't like taking Melody to the grocery store b/c the one we go to the carts are not safe at all to put the infant car seat in unless you put it in the main part. Which means barely any room for the groceries. So the last time I went I decided she was doing so well with learning to sit that I would try to put her in the seat...and she did great!

The kids playing with their play food they got for x-mas

Homework!

Logan is transitioning to the pre-K class at his daycare and he now has homework. Yikes, how am I going to find time to help him with his HW? Its not like he can sit down and do it by himself yet. And I'm sure that won't happen for a long time anyway! He is super excited about the thought of homework. I asked him if he knew what it was and he said of course he knew what it was. So I said what is it? And he says "I don't know!". So I tried to make it as exciting as I could and he loved doing it. It was really cute and he is so proud, showing everyone that will listen. Here are a few pictures of Logan's first homework experience:

Logan's first self portrait

The Aftermath and Favorite Toys

The house was a mess for several days after x-mas until I could find a place for everything. I am having to get really creative in keeping things organized around here with so many toys! With our basement not really finished, it is too dungeon like for it to be the playroom so until we do something about that, our living room will continue to be the multi purpose (crowded!) room.
I think this year Logan's favorite santa gifts turned out to be some of the little things he got in his stocking. Things I thought would not be a big deal. Such as the small toy airplanes and the Alladin figurines. He loves to play with both of these. He also likes his 2 headed dragon and big dinosaurs alot. And he likes the geotrax trian and airport sets but doesn't play with them as much as I thought he would :(

A Day of MANY "Changes" and "Sun Up to Sun Down"

Changes of clothes that is. Logan changed his outfit 6 times throughout the day! I felt this blog needed two titles since it was such a fun day

Our tree AFTER my parents came over and doubled the amount of gifts!

Logan's first glimpse of the presents and outfit #1, his dinosaur pjs.

Logan was so cute x-mas morning. He was excited but he was very specific about how he wanted presents opened. He wanted to take his time and someone else could only have a gift when HE said so. Too funny. In a way it was nice he wasen't tearing through all the gifts but to get to my 2nd blog title it took us "SUN UP TO SUN DOWN" to open all the presents. First one started around 8am and last one was opened at 11pm! With a break for dinner at my parents house.

My Dad and Melody with her new pony

Outfit #2, his Pirate costume from Halloween.

He wanted to put it on as soon as he opened his pirate ship. He played with this for a good half hour before another gift was even thought of.

Outfit #3.

He ran around in his underwear for awhile while I convinced him to put on some clothes! My mom had a good idea and had him open his new outfit for his "Build A Bear" monkey named "Dr. Bananas" (Joe and I bought him the monkey with scrubs on originally) Anyway, this brought us to our 4th outfit......

Eagles Football attire

My mom and Melody with her "Dolly Llama

This was my dad's idea. My mom told him she was looking for a doll for Melody and he said "Why don't we give her a "Dolly" Llama? So my mom got the stuffed Llama and a tag around its neck that says "Dolly". It will be funny one day when she learns who the "real" Dalai Lama is

Outfit #5. One of his new ones from Joe's parents.

He finally kept this one on for awhile.

Logan's new geotrax train. We also got him the geotrax airport but it had the wrong pieces, so back to the store I go to exchange it..

Our cookie cake for Jesus.

Logan sang Happy Birthday and here is the video.

Melody had a bath in my parents sink

Logan wrote his name all by himself

And outfit #6....some more dinosaur pjs.

Holding his two headed dragon that "breaths fire"

What a great day we had!!! Logan was exhausted by the end of it and fell asleep in the middle of eating a chicken nugget. Wish I had a picture of that!

5 Days Off!

Finally this year Joe and I are NOT on call for Christmas! In fact, we have 5 days off. Yeah! The past two years one of us has had to go into work over the holiday. It is nice being a 3rd year!

Christmas Eve we went to mass at 4:00. It was...well...difficult. We didn't have the best seats for Logan to see and I forgot to bring him a drink. So the whole time we just tried to keep his mind off of wanting a drink and tried to keep him quiet. Forget about him sitting down....that was a lost cause. He sat and climbed everywhere BUT the pew we were in. At one point when it was quiet he said "I don't think I like church!" really loud. *SIGH* Joe took Melody out cause she was crying...Anyway, not sure we got much out of it but we were there!

Logan ready for church

Silly girl!

I didn't get a pic of Melody in her x-mas dress b/c we were so rushed and she was asleep but this is her santa dress.

Christmas Eve Pajamas

When I was growing up my mom always let us open one present on x-mas eve. It was almost always pajamas. I think this was a ploy for her to get us excited to go to bed but nevertheless it worked well! So I will continue this w/ my kids. Joe and I had a box with new PJ's too and Logan just thought it was great we all had new pj's. I think the pj plan backfired for me cause it only made Logan more excited! Oh well

Joe and I were up to about 1 am setting up everything and cleaning up. Here is the tree and gifts before we went to bed:

Christmas Poses

Since our JC Penny pictures were a disater, I decided to take some pictures at home instead, save money, and do it on my own time! Most of the pics were taken with my parent's camera but I captured a few.

Handsome little guy

What a boy

Little Santa outfits

We have scrubs just like Mommy & Daddy!