Christmas with the Boumas

We had our Christmas celebration at Matt's parents' house tonight. Andrew was a little confused. We took presents for the rest of the family with us and I told him he'd get to open presents too and he said his presents were at home. We had a nice ham dinner and then the kids tore into the packages.

Opening his presents out of his HUGE stocking

Mommy and Andrew

More presents

A nerf sword from Uncle Marc!

This was a huge hit!

Sam got one too so they got to have a swordfight :)

Crayons

Cousin Sam

Uncle Marc got him a transformer

Mommy just has to read the directions

Sam's Y-Wing Fighter

Both boys loved this toy

A new game

And a new vehicle--A wrecking claw

Getting on his new trike

"Beep, beep, beep!"

(Backing up)

He loves his new trike!

(Sam liked riding it around the house too)

A bunny and outfit from Uncle Marc for baby Nora

Opening a present for Nora from the grandparents

(clothes and a bath book and a rattle)

Grandma and Grandpa with the grandkids

Sam, Andrew, and Ian

(and soon to be Nora too)

The funny things Andrew says

When Andrew looked at the crescent moon tonight he said,

"It looks like a nut, a cashew nut!"

The other day when we were baking and decorating sugar cookies he said,

"It smells like Christmas because we're making Christmas cookies."

The crib

Matt picked up the crib today and he needed enough room to work in the baby's room so he opened it up in Andrew's room. The box filled the whole room!!!! Andrew was a good helper, he had 3 screwdrivers out, one for each of us. :)

Andrew with his tubes of cardboard


Helping dad screw in the sides

He was very excited to help build the bed

Andrew still fits!

He also thinks he should get to take some baths in the baby bathtub. He says there's a spot for him and a spot for Nora.

Andrew in the giant crib box.

Sugar cookies yesterday

So Andrew and I made sugar cookies yesterday. And even though it makes a huge mess and and takes a long time, I love it!!! We had so much fun! Andrew was really into it and had to put two different kinds of 'sprinkles' on every cookie. :)

My cheesy sous chef (in his lumberjack tree-tropping shirt)

Picking out cookie cutters

Mommy and Andrew

He's actually very good with the mixer and turns it on slowly and only if you ask him too

Frosting and sprinkling (or sparkling :)

The end result

More cookies

The Old Spaghetti Factory

We went out to Old Spaghetti Factory with Andrew tonight, it's one of his favorite restaurants

We even got to sit on the trolley like Andrew wanted

My boys!

The Toy Box

Andrew picked out this toy box for baby Nora. He's helping daddy build it.

He was actually pretty good at using the screwdriver and screwing in the screws

The little handyman

Gingerbread Houses

We made gingerbread houses with Andrew's best friend Ethan for the second year. Which actually meant the moms mostly built the houses while the kids ate candy and played. :)

Eating candy

He did actually help with the roof

Zoolights 2009

We went to Zoolights last week (Dec. 10th) in 15-20 degree weather!! Brrr!!!

Feeding the goats

Andrew and Muh

The carousel

Mommy and Daddy

Zoolights 2009

Having hot chocolate in the cafe to warm up

He actually drank about 12 oz. of hot chocolate!!! All sugared up. But he still fell asleep in the car on the way home halfway through a chicken nugget.

What a cutie!

Cheese!!