Twelve Days of Christmas (Day Five)

One thing Daniel really wanted to do (and me too) was make a Rice Krispie Treat Train. We bought a kit from Sam's Club before Thanksgiving and he has been dying to make it.

He actually did most of the work. 

It kept him busy for a good hour. That is not an easy thing to accomplish.

He made his to be exactly like the box (at least how he saw it).

I decorated the other side.  Happy Eating!

Twelve Days of Christmas (Day Four)

 Since we are spending Christmas in Disneyland this year, we decided to open our family gifts early (really early). So, Saturday morning, we headed downstairs in our Christmas pajamas (from last year) and open gifts.

The boys got movies to take on the plane. Daniel is always good for an exciting reaction.

Patrick got a V-tech rolling ball. He loves it!

It was a good Christmas morning.

We even got to open an extra present from Grandma and Grandpa Great. Puzzles! These boys love puzzles. Thank you Greats!

Twelve Days of Christmas (Day Three)

Daniel got invited to an cookie decorating party and ornament exchanges at a friends house. The ornaments were supposed to be new, used, or created. I decided created would be a good way to get a craft out of it as well so we went to the store and picked out some ornaments. Daniel had to pick one out for Patrick as well. He had fun decorating the two ornaments with paint.

I think they turned out pretty well.

It was a fun party with a lot of little kids. I didn't take any pictures at the party but you can imagine what it was like with about 12 kids under four. Daniel had a blast.

Big Boy

 In addition to gaining weight (up two pounds in November to 14lbs, 14 oz which brings him up from the 2nd percentile at 5 months to the 10th percentile at 6 months), Patrick has started eating "solid" foods. He has had rice cereal, sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots, and applesauce.

He is all boy and will eat just about anything, just make sure you get it in his mouth fast enough. It is funny though, while Daniel's favorite food was (and still is) green beans, Patrick is not as big of a fan of those.

It was also his first time in a high chair, now that he can sit up by himself. I think he liked being able to look around.

Another one bites the dust

Josh has now lost five teeth. I was really excited for him to loose his two front teeth so he could sing the sone, now I am just worried his adult teeth will grow in crooked. He has a huge whole on the top. Oh well, I guess the third one needed to fall out so the adult tooth had room to come in. The joys of having a small mouth (like their mom). It does make for a cute smile though.

Twelve Days of Christmas (Day Two)

Every year, a group of friends get together for a Christmas party. It has evolved over the years from an adults only party with a white elephant gift exchange to a kids party with a kids gift exchange.

 

Either type of party is always fun. It was nice reminiscing about the old days before kids. 

It was a fun evening with some good food, good friends, and good times. 

The Twelve Days of Christmas (Day One)

Around the Weldon household, Christmas lasts a long time (no complaining here) with all the traveling.  This year we have planned on spending Christmas at Disneyland with the entire Weldon clan (all 18 of us). We didn't want to tell the boys until right before we left to avoid the "Are we going now?" question for months. So, after Thanksgiving, we decided to let the boys know.

I had this great idea in mind of how to "reveal" our plans to them. I found an idea online to have the kids unwrap a box and a balloon pop out with a sign saying "We are going to Disneyland." So, I found a box, had Joe buy the balloons, printed out a sign, and got to wrapping.

First, the box was too small. One balloon would fit, but it wouldn't pop out because you had to wedge it in the box. So, we found a bigger box. Then, the sign I had printed was too heavy for a single balloon so we had to figure out a way to span two balloons to hold up the sign. Then we wrapped.

After an hour, we were finally ready to show it to the boys.

They unwrapped it, the balloons popped up, and....

Their responses were less than ideal. Daniel was more excited about the balloons to even hear we were going to Disneyland and when we asked Josh if he was excited, he nonchalantly replied "Yay." About what I expected but not what I was hoping for.

Oh well. They also opened the cool suitcases from Grandma and Grandpa Weldon that had all the Disney clothes they would need for the trip.

It's the start of a crazy few weeks at the Weldon's.