Holiday fun

We have been having so much fun with all of the Christmas activities. We've been starting the day with our advent calendars and spending cold days putting up Christmas trees, making ornaments, and decorating gingerbread and cookies, and looking at Christmas lights around town. 

Hudson has been so funny this year as he tries to understand the whole Santa concept. We pulled out Elf on a Shelf and I had so much fun gathering some cool ideas. After just a few days though he was just not buying into this magic elf and kept telling me how he is "just a doll, mom". He is NOT real. This is sort of confusing for him since I try to tell him that "monsters" and all sorts of other things that scare him at night are not real. So we tabled the elf this year and may try him another time!

He loves making lists and has many, many Christmas lists going around the house. While we are out shopping and he wants a toy and I tell him it is Christmas, he tells me that if we buy it he will makes sure he "forgets" about it. Ha! He has also been inspecting the wrapped gifts pretty close and already has guessed many of them correctly based in the boxes!

Before bed, Hudson always gets really chatty asking many questions about things. After reading one of his favorite books, the Polar Express, Hudson wanted to know who to get to the North Pole. After telling him it was really far away and not a place to travel to easily, he proceeded to tell me that he had a really great idea. That after school in the car, we could just type in the North Pole into the computer in the car and it would tell us whether to go left or right! This child has a solution to everything! 

Jack is certainly feeding off Hudson's excitement and constantly making us laugh. He is talking up a storm and going around singing songs like Frosty the "No man" and saying "Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Kissmas". He is full of expressions like "oh, man" and "one more, that's it!" after each piece of candy he finds and greets everyone with "Hi, how are you?" He also loves to say "No running, I promise" when we go into a store. This promise doesn't last long! His new favorite way to get around jumping like a frog, saying "ribbit". 

Tasting the decorations for the gingerbread house

The Christmas gifts under the tree have turned into building for his Cars

Salt dough ornaments

Snowmen handprint ornaments

We have also been putting up their own little tree's in their own rooms with some of their own ornaments. My parents started this as a tradition when we were little and gave us an ornament every year so we are doing the same for the boys. 

Hudson's tree

Jack's tree