Christmas 2012

The night before.


I'm such a bad mom. We were supposed to roll out and make sugar cookies but I'd been in such a baking frenzy that I just couldn't do it. So we let Santa have a bite of the gingerbread house.

Now for opening presents!






Watching


Brock and Riley helped pass out all the presents.


So much excitement!




Bronco stayed out of it as the playing commenced. He loves getting on a pillow!


Granddaddy and granddog reunited.


We got the kids a cardboard castle(last year) and they've enjoyed it.


I made a big oven pancake for breakfast. Brock enjoys his with powdered sugar. He pretty much needs a shower after he's eaten.


Oh, and the monkey and alligator. It seems that Granddaddy found these in a catalog and thought the kids should have them. They have sensors so that if you touch it or pass by it, it's activated. What happens when it's activated you want to know? It rolls and laughs. Like an insane man laugh. For the first 50 times it's pretty funny. After that, not as much! But the kids have yet to tire of them.


Brock kept activating them if he heard them stop. It was highly entertaining that first 2 hours!

Gingerbread house

Grandma and I helped the boys make a gingerbread house for Christmas. I really love the kids you can get. They aren't all that tasty but they are so very easy!


Since there was so much helping going on I didn't get to take very many pictures of the process. So here's the finished product.




And here's a peak at the treat plate I passed around.


From the left--red velvet cake balls, ginger crinkles, mint chocolate chip meringues, and mud puppy mix. And I'll go ahead and admit I ate way too much of this stuff myself!

Randoms

Grandma and Grandpa sent the boys some cool Christmas workbooks and they had a great time coloring in them.


Bronco liked it, too.


And because it's cute, Brock/Bronco hug.


Borrowing from a time ahead of this one--cuddles with Grandpa.


And a just woken up Brock.

Teeth

Riley had to have some dental surgery. His teeth were really horrible and the amount of work needed was going to take 3-4 visits to the dentist so we decided to do it one shebang at the hospital. Not the most fun way to start off Christmas vacation but, at 4, he didn't really know any better! The worst part was the morning of. We were supposed to be there at 6 am but we found out the day before we had been pushed back until 10. Not cool when you have to keep a 4 year old from eating or drinking anything!
Now you know he found food somewhere and took it to his room and ate it. Thankfully I found him at it before much could be ingested but we had to call the dentist anyway and see what the change of plan would be. We got pushed another 2 hours! At least we still got to do it that day. I took the boys to the park to burn some time and my friend Angie came with 2 of her kids. It was the perfect time waster and we all had a great time. Then it was off to the hospital, just the two of us!

He was such a trooper!


He really didn't freak out at all. This was after the versed had started working. Look at those rosy cheeks!


The after surgery wasn't as pretty. He was a bit upset but after they gave him to me he settled a bit and I held him until he woke up enough to drink a little something. Which he threw up. It was mostly just spit. We finally got him to drink a little ice slurry kind of thing and we could come home.


He had 2 teeth pulled, 2 baby root canals, 2 caps, 2 spacers, and 4 fillings. Banner day!