For Christmas we made some ornaments from Westen's hand and feet prints.
We also made some chocolate/caramel/peanut butter dipped pretzel rods for our friends/neighbors for Christmas....and Westen helped....by eating the broken pretzels.
We went to the Zoo Lights with Grandma Helen and with Kevin/Amanda/Blake and Kade.
The boys were all bundled up. They liked seeing the animals, especially the little monkeys.
Westen called every animal "kee" (kitty) in his cute little high-pitched kitty voice.
Westen was also intrigued by the lights.
When our daddy came home from his trip to Maryland, we decorated our Christmas tree.
Westen was actually helpful....and by helpful, I mean that he didn't rip off every ornament from the tree. We gave him a few small plastic ornaments and he has played with those for the past few weeks...and left the rest of the tree intact, which I would say was a sucessful
first-Christmas-tree-experience.
We had a fun time sewing lots of Christmas gifts this year. The most special was the quilt that we made for Audrey with Westen's hand print on the back. Hope she loves it!
Westen got some fun presents from them...Audrey sewed him a little lion, he got a cabbage patch boy, a monkey, and two quiet books (which we desparately need for church!)
On Christmas Eve, we went out a little early to Grandma and Grandpa Wilson's house and we played in the snow.
Westen did really well. We even went on a little sled ride behind the 4 wheeler and he had a good time.
Then after yummy prime rib Christmas dinner, we opened our Christmas jammies and our presents.
Grandma gave Westen a little piano octopus that blows bubbles and Westen has really liked playing with it.
Thanks Grandma for our Christmas Jammies!
On Christmas morning, Westen unpacked his stocking and his favorite thing in it (that he dragged around for the rest of the morning) was the orange that our family gets in the toe of their stockings.
It was funny to watch him chew on it. When he got to the bitter part just under the skin, he made some funny sour faces. And just for the record....his little body doesn't really digest oranges...yep- they come out whole....sorry too much info, but I couldn't resist :)
Grandma Leah, Grandpa Don, and Grandma Helen came over on Christmas morning too and we went upstairs to open presents. Westen got a fun balance bike from Grandma Leah and Grandpa Don.
Grandpa Don got Westen a real metal tonka truck. He LOVED it! He also really liked the foam football he got from Grandma Helen....and two days later, it has lots of little chunks that somebody and chewed out of it.
He also got 100+ legos from Grandma Leah too!
Daddy got a special chevron camo blanket that Barbara and Audrey made for him :)
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