Christmas and the 2 year old blog!

Christmas and the 2 year old blog!
(December 29, 2009)


This year Christmas was great, this was our first Christmas where Santa visited our house. Jacob was very excited when he woke up Christmas morning and as his Daddy carried him downstairs he caught a glimpse of what Santa left him! This year Jacob must have been on the "Very Nice" list (that or Santa doesn't count "terrible two" tantrums as worthy of the "Naughty List").

Jacob got a new train table and a full array of Thomas Trains and buildings. Santa was even nice enough to set up a whole town with winding track and buildings for Jacob to immediately start playing with.



For any of you that have followed this blog from the beginning this blog has been going on now for 2 years. The first blog entry happened December 24th 2007, check out how much Jacob has grown up! He was only 18 weeks old (same age Andrew is now). I have a tradition to take a picture of Jacob in his Santa hat every year, so lets compare:

2009

2008

2007

Blizzard of 2009!

Blizzard of 2009!
(December 19, 2009)

Well it is official we got 20 inches of snow dumped on us and we are now having strong winds that have made a few 3-4 foot snow drifts for the kids to play in! Needless to say Christmas presents might not get purchased in time! Living on a farm makes for wonderful pictures and sledding but it isn't too good for getting the state to come back the 3 mile DIRT road and plow us out. We are always left for the end of the plowing! Hopefully we can get out by Wednesday, and Thank God Santa doesn't need the road plowed to get here! So his presents will surely make it under the tree for Jacob and Andrew.

Christmas Spirit!

Christmas Spirit!
(December 2009)

These past two weeks have been CrAzY with our schedules, mainly my fault since I double booked almost everyday! But darn it I LOVE CHRISTMAS TIME!!! I love going to see Santa, and making cookies, and decorating the house, and watching Christmas movies, etc...etc...etc....

So I am starting early in my evil plan to corrupt Jacob into loving the same things, although if my memory serves me from my childhood I don't think it is too hard to get a kid excited about Christmas. Jacob has been a big help this year and unlike last year hasn't ripped off any ornaments, or broken any holiday decorations.

We headed over to Grandmas house last week and helped her and some cousins decorate Christmas cookies. Jacob did a great job and made it a little harder than necessary but not too bad!

We then headed out for the first annual "holiday pictures" with him and his brother and if I do say so myself they turned out GREAT!!!!!

And lastly we got some snow the other week and Paul and Jacob headed out and made a terrific snowman. Jacob is such a little man this year and he understands more and more each day. I was soooo worried that like last year he would be ripping apart my tree but he isn't and he has even started to sing Christmas songs with his new found vocabulary! Of course he doesn't really sing them correctly but hey what could be cuter than a 28 month old walking around the house singing "Frotty Noman! Frotty Noman! Frotty Noman!" or "Jingle Bell Jingle Bell Jingle Bell DA WAAAAAYYYY!!!!"

A Year Without Santa Claus!

A Year Without Santa Claus!
(December 2009)

This is my favorite time of year, and I was hoping that since Jacob was a little older that he too would start getting into the Christmas spirit. I started playing Rudolf, Frosty, and Santa movies a few weeks ago and Jacob has even started singing Jingle Bells as he walks around the house. So when the time came to go visit Santa I was in high hopes that this year would turn out better than last year. If you don't remember what happened last year here is a quick reminder:


So we made it to the mall and Jacob and Andrew had their matching Christmas outfits on. We were getting a lot of smiles from passing patrons and as we made it closer to Santa Jacob actually got excited. I thought for sure I would be getting a great keepsake this year! I parked the stroller and with Andrew in one arm and Jacob holding my other hand we walked up the ramp to see Santa. Well as soon as we got within 10 feet of Santa Jacob ripped his hand out of mine and started running. I had "Santa's helpers" watch the stroller and I went running after him. By the time I got to him he was crying and saying "CARED MOMMA CARED! (cared=scared)

I talked him down from his hysterics and we made our way back to Santa, Andrew still in one arm, and now Jacob being carried with the other arm (I need to go to the gym, I have two HEAVY boys!). When we got back to Santa Jacob started to freak out again so I got Andrew into Santas arms for the picture and I consoled Jacob 10 feet away! Oh well, it looks like this will be a year without Santa. Next year probably will be too since Andrew will probably freak out next year and Jacob will probably still have a phobia!!!