Pre-Christmas Updates

So we've been busy...
We saw Santa at the mall back in November (where we had the Christmas card pictures taken). There was a snowglobe theme center where Santa sat. It was fun.

We decorated our Christmas tree on Thanksgiving.
Ephraim really likes the nutcrackers.

Gabriel makes the nutcracker face.

Snuggles with mom before she has to leave for work.

"Don't go to work, mom!" (He could barely keep a straight face after a few photos and giggles from mom.)

 Funny faces!

I made two batches of rolls for my department potluck holiday party. First batch is cooling while the second batch rises. Yes, all this on a Wednesday night--I am amazing. :)

There's only one roll left and mommy split it in half so each boy got some.
"But I wanted a whole one!"

I did some Christmas shopping two weekends ago and got this new hat. I hadn't had mommy time in about a month, so it was a pleasant splurge!

Gabriel's concert last Sunday evening:

And now the whirlwind Christmas is upon us! I hope to post again soon. Merry Christmas!!

Indoor Baseball

Yes, my boys are athletes! They came up with this game all on their own and played for about 20 minutes. (Right before bed is when they seem to play the best together.) I was cracking up the whole time and I am so glad I captured it. What darling boys!

Dancin' to our Favorite Songs

We had a fun dance party tonight. We pulled up our favorite songs on youtube.com and played them about three times each. Gabriel and I were having a blast, Ephraim enjoyed just crawling around singing along with us. I had to take a break and grab the camera (this is Gabriel's favorite song by far, he sings it all the time):

Post Halloween

We went to the craft store and got some fun foam haunted houses to build. Spooky! For Halloween, we stayed home, ate candy that the kids had received from school, and answered the door. Gabriel yelled "BOO!" every time he opened the door and scared the kids! Both boys enjoyed handing out huge handfuls of candy to each trick-or-treater.

Yesterday was Gabriel's parent-teacher conference so I got out of work early. We had a very enjoyable afternoon playing together. I miss my kids!

Ephraim rolls the boulders down the lego steps.

Gabriel spells words, "I LOVE U" was first.

 Gotta make a tribute to the name itself.

Lately I have been very aware of time going by quickly. Ephraim still has adorable cheeks and a little boy voice. I am trying to capture and enjoy them as much as I can. Look at those yummy cheeks!

Such expressions! (And those eyes... *swoon*)

Sunday Morning Brothers

I have the most adorable boys! No more words needed!

 

 

 

 

 

Science Lesson

We had a really cool impromptu science lesson tonight. It was so fun and the kids thought it was so cool, I had to share it and record it.

We were talking about skin. (Ephraim had scraped his toe and was worried it was going to bleed.) We put Ephraim's hand on top of Gabriel's knee, then Gabriel's hand on top of E's, and then mommy's hand on top of G's. Each was a layer of skin, each one older than the one below it. Then we "scratched" our knee and lost just one layer of skin. It was okay to lose the Mommy layer of skin because we still had two more layers to protect our knee. BUT, if we lost the Gabriel and Ephraim layers of skin too, we exposed our knee and it was "bleeding." We grew a scab (a book) on top of the baby Ephraim layer of skin. If we tried to pick the scab off, the book stuck to the Ephraim layer of skin and ... uh-oh, we saw our bloody knee again. So we decided not to pick our scab and we grew our Ephraim, Gabriel, and Mommy layers of skin again. :)

The boys thought this was brilliant! We did this again and again. Happy science for smart kids!

Scary Faces

It's almost Halloween. I saw someone's idea about drawing on old milk cartons and then putting a glow stick inside. I like the idea and so did the kids. By the way, those pumpkins were from our garden.

 

My statue...

 Post-bath mohawk!