December, Part Two

Starting this post off with a few random pics from December that I love:

My two ukulele kings!  

Brothers watching The Polar Express together

My gorgeous boy in a park!

December continued with our first visit with Santa for the year!  Just like last year and the year before, our city's police department sent Santa and his sleigh all around the town to greet the kids!  This year Sam wasn't afraid of Santa at all and I was so relieved!  He was really excited about the candy cane that he got, of course, as was his big brother.  I had to laugh at Jack as he plugged his ears when the police car came by... he is just like his momma!  We have many pictures of me when I was his age with my fingers in my ears as well!  Next to the police car when we went to see the Olympic torch relay for the '84 Olympics, on my dad's boat, on my dad's ATVs, watching fireworks, next to the merry-go-round at McDonald's, any time I even saw a balloon... I didn't like loud noises!  The difference, though, is that I was miserable as I plugged my ears. But Jack?  Well, Jack plugs his ears the same way he does everything else: joyfully!

 

 

Next up for December was a visit to Sleepy Hollow, also known as the Christmas Light district!  This is always one of my favorite December activities, and I was so happy that this year my sister and Luke were able to join us as well!  We started the night at my parents' house, they have a display of the nativity on their lawn at Christmas time, the same display that Grammy has and that their church has.  Jack calls it "the Bible".  One day we were in the middle of Target and Jack loudly says to me "Mom, grandma has 'the Bible' at her house, and so does the church and Grammy has 'the Bible' too- why don't we have 'the Bible'?"  I may or may not have answered his question in a manner that would have ensured that anyone who had overheard us would have known that actually weren't the heathens that my son's question would have led them to believe, and that we in fact have many many many Bibles in our house and that I actually had one on my person at that very moment (it was a Bible app on my phone, but it counts!).  Anyway, when we were at my mom's house Sam decided to check out the light that illuminates the Nativity display before we headed out to see the rest of the lights!

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sam and I were pretty excited to get to go to Jack's class to help out at their Christmas party!  I made graham cracker houses for the kids to decorate and we had a bunch of little crafts for them to make, too, as well as snowman pizzas for them to eat!  Sam, of course, was just thrilled to get a chance to play with the toys that he gets to see but doesn't get to play with when we drop Jack off or pick him up.  

Of course, this is how I found Jack spending his free play time when we got to his class at party time:

 

 

The few days leading up to Christmas, Dave was on a 72 hour shift... so on the 23rd the boys and I headed to the fire station to have dinner with daddy!

 

 

 

December's conclusion will be up next!

 

December, Part One

December was awesome... we had so much fun and were so busy!  The first thing we did when December hit was, of course, put up the Christmas tree!  The boys and I had so much fun decorating it.  We have so many ornaments that are special to me and I love going through them each year and reminiscing about the memories behind each ornament- yes, even the ugly embarrassing ones that I made when I was a kid... I look forward to my own kids making ornaments that they will think are ugly and embarrassing when they are my age!  My favorite part, though, is Jack's reaction as he participates in decorating the tree.  He knows that the ornaments have special meaning, and he either asks me the meaning behind every single ornament he picks up or he remembers the meaning from last year and very excitedly tells me what each ornament means!  I love sharing this with my boys, and I hope that it continues all the way through their lives and when they have kids of their own.

Here are two videos:

  

And some pictures!

 

 

 

Of course, no Reeves Christmas Season post would be complete without a shot of a kid with the Christmas Train... this year Samuel was just as obsessed with it as Jackson always is!  My boys are definitely train kids!

On December 2nd we got to decorate another Christmas Tree!  Jack's preschool was having a cowboy themed tree-trimming party, so we dressed the boys in their cowboy duds and moseyed on over to eat some grub and make and hang some ornaments!

 

 

 

 

The next day was Dave's birthday, and the boys were so excited to give daddy his presents!  I have him his favorite beer, that I was magically able to find even though it was out of season, and the boys gave him a Snoopy Christmas lawn ornament.  Dave loves Snoopy Christmas stuff :)  

 

That night my mom came over to watch the boys and Dave and I went out to celebrate his birthday on a boat!  We drove to Newport and hopped on a boat to cruise around the harbor to see the Christmas lights.  It was really nice, and c-c-c-c-cold!!!  But we had a good time :) 

Even the boat was decorated for Christmas, with lights on the railings!

 

 

 

I had been looking forward to our next December event since the beginning of Jack's school year!  Jack's preschool was going to be singing in church, and I was so excited!  His teachers had been telling me how great Jack was doing in music class (apparently he knew what "forte" meant before the teacher told him, and added "accelerando" and "pianisimo" to her queries... have I ever mentioned how much he loves music?), and I already knew how well he could carry a tune, so I was really excited to see him sing in a choir for the first time!  He practiced very enthusiastically and was very prepared for his performance... but when he got up there he forgot one thing: that he was supposed to sing!  I had to laugh at him when he got up there and stood there grinning ear to ear while the rest of his class was singing along!  Since he didn't actually sing I won't post either of the videos, but here is a picture of his giant grin he wore.

December Part Two will be coming up soon, but for now I will leave you with a picture of what Clark Kent must have looked like at two- before he started wearing his uniform under his shirt for quick changes!