Christmas 2010

What to say about this Christmas??? Well, it was a busy one like always. Thurdsay, I had my dad's side of the family over at my house for supper. Christmas Eve morning we went to my mom's. That afternoon and night we went to both Chris's grandparents.  That night we exchanged gifts. Chris and I didn't get each other much because we got our matress a few months ago that was supposed to be our Christmas present. However we both liked what we got each other. Christmas we saw what Santa brought Nash. Then we went to Mimi's and Poppy's and that night went to my grandmother's.

 Christmas Eve night was the most interesting and fun for us. This was the first year that Nash really got into Christmas. He has been wanting a "big ol Thomas" (train table). Chris had put it completely together upstairs and as he and I were playing Santa we realized we had to take it apart to get it downstairs to just put it back together. It was funny as we were trying to be quiet and dropping pieces and laughing quietly to ourselves. We did make a smart move and had Nash sleep in our bed so that we could kind of contain him as most nights here lately due to his snotty nose he has been ending up in our bed anyways. So we just set up the table in his room since we knew if we didn't we would have to take it apart once again to just put it back together. So it all worked out and Nash woke up in the morning. I woke Chris up and took Nash to potty and I said "you want to go see what Santa left you?" and he said "oh yeah" like he had forgotten. It was funny. He was so excited this year and really got into opening his presents and loved the different things he got.

Another funny story this Christmas is about one of his Santa gifts. Nash has been to Toys R Us several times and saw the Fisher Price Big Foot Monster. He has been so scared of it because at the store he is in the cage and bangs on the cage. However, he has still been very interested in it. At home he saw it on the an advertisement and started watching videos of it on the computer. So one night Chris asks (thinking that Nash was still afraid of it) "do you want me to go to the store and get a Big Foot for you to have at our house?" and Nash says "YES!!!" I thought "oh great" and hoped he would forget about it.  Well the next morning the first thing out of his mouth was "daddy's going to the store and getting me a big foot monster for my house". Yep. So he got another gift from Santa and LOVES it!

(By the way I am horrible at the whole Santa thing and think Nash will probably find out at an early age the truth about Santa (which is fine with me) because numerous times I made unintentional comments that totally would have given it away if he were paying attention or old enough to understand.)

Here are some pictures from our Christmas.

 Nash got at ton of Thomas trains for his train table.

 Christmas morning playing with his train table

 Seeing that "santa brought me a big foot to my house"

 new adorable Thomas the Train rain boots

 our family picture at Chris's parents

probably the funniest and grossest picture taken this Christmas

Christmas Program + Trains = A Good Day.

Nash had his Christmas program at school today. His group sang jingle bells and had little jingle bells that they rang during the song. Nash did a good job and sang and rang his bell the whole time. There was a little blooper when the kid in front of him got a little carried away ringing his bell and hit Nash in the face but Nash quickly got over it and kept singing.

Nash and Mrs. Connie (his wonderful teacher)

Our family pic.

(Nash was grumpy today so I was glad we at least got this)

After lunch and Nash's nap we meet up with our friends Kat and Nate to go see the big train exhibit at the library. The boys LOVED it. I was afriad we weren't going to be able to leave. However, due to a smoking train and the conductor stopping them for a bit we convinced the boys that the trains were sleeping and needed to rest so we went and played in the children's part of the library which was a lot of fun as well.

(The boys were right at eye level with the trains and thought it was amazing.)

Other reasons it was a good day include having the day off, my morning Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha half caf and banana chocolate chip coffee cake, getting a couple more Christmas presents taken care of, taking a wonderful nap with the boy, getting my Christmas cards mailed, having my husband bring home supper, and getting my house cleaned. Yep, it was a good day.

Santa trip fail

Today I got Nash dressed up to take some Christmas pictures at the house and the Old Mill which didn't go great but was okay and I got a few good ones. Then we went to the mall to see Santa. I wasn't going to take Nash this year because just like last year, execpt this year he can verbalize it, Nash says "I not like Santa. He's scarey". However Thursday after school he came home saying he wants to go see Santa, sit on his lap, take a picture, and tell him to bring him "presents". He has insisted several times that we go see Santa. In fact one day he swore Santa was down the street and we needed to go walk to find him. So we went. The whole time he was saying. "Where's Santa Momma? I love him." Well he saw Santa and clamed up again and held on to me for dear life and returned to the mindset of "I not like Santa". 

However there was this super cool jump thing next to Santa that Nash insisted that he wanted to go do. I thought you won't go sit and talk to a friendly old man but you want to be strapped in and jump up high in the middle of a store. Whatever. I thought well that looks fun and at least it won't be a wasted trip. Well, this is what he does when he gets strapped in.

 However, I made him do it. I knew he would like it once he started jumping. It was just all the strappy things that bothered him.

 And he didn't love it but liked it okay and was excited when he started going up high. However at times he changed his mind and wanted out. What can I say. He is indecisive like his mother. Lord help him.

He did however LOVE this cool little ride on car that he rode a couple of times. I think he would love to have one of these at home that he could rid on all the time.