Here are a few selections from the present openening chaos.

The whole family! (plus half of Jean). This is the best shot I got of the family. Most everyone is looking in the general vicinity of the camera anyways.

Hello all,

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! We had a lot of fun. I will post a couple of pics today. Here is the kids making cookies for Santa. He had to have chocolate chip cookies. Of course it might have been that certain children really like chocolate chip cookie dough, but that is beside the point. Santa had chocolate chip, and we had to leave carrots for the reindeer. Abigail was wonderful during Christmas and loved everything. She really loved her digital camera and hasn't put it down since. I started to feel like Britney Spears because everytime I turned around there she was flashing in my face! There were a few taken when I hadn't yet turned around and those were bad, very bad, they got deleted quickly! Jackson had a little bit of a hard time with Christmas. He was overwhelmed, overstimulated and just overtired! He wanted only the things his sister got and didn't handle it well when she wanted those things too! I guess next year it's matching presents for both!

I might not sleep now for a few weeks but Jackson officially has a big boy bed. I'm very scared. Wish us luck.

The kids finally got a chance to see Santa. Abigail told him she wanted an American Idol Dance Mat (or Hannah Montanna) and Jackson told him he wanted a tattoo. Yes a tattoo. When we walked away Jackson said "Well Where is it?!" Evidently he thought Santa was a one stop shop.

Abigail's Christmas Recital

We had Abigail's Christmas recital today and she was a good little tap dancer. Here is the video although there was a couple people standing in front of us. These things are never very easy to see at!

Hanukkah

We were watching the news this morning and they were showing the ice storms they are having in Missouri right now. Abigail asked me "Mom where is Missouri?" I said "Oh, it's a long ways away." To which she replied "Is that where they celebrate Hanukkah?".

How many more days till Santa comes?

That is the many question we hear in our house. "Mom how many more days till Santa comes?" Last night Abigail asked this question for the millionth time. David said "2 weeks". Abigial turned to him and said "You've said 2 weeks 2 million times!". To which David replied "well you've asked 2 million times!!!!".

Yesterday Abigail and Jackson were having a tea party at the kitchen table. I let them have real water in their cups so it was a pretty big deal. Jackson was told he must say "tea my lady" before he would be served any tea. After a few minutes Abigail came running up to me and said "Mom, I'm teaching Jackson to be a tea person! I really am! I'm so excited I can finally teach him something!".

And finally, Jackson and I were going into Walmart today and he started to pull his little trick of stopping in the middle of the parking lot and saying "I can't walk to more, would you carry me?" (and yes he says "to more" don't know why). I said "no, you can walk, why don't you carry me?". He laughed and said "NO", I said "why not?" and he told me "Because, you aren't a Jackson!". Evidently only Jacksons can be carried.

My little elves and I put up a Christmas tree today. It was fun, uh ok, fun for them. Jackson wanted to put all the ornaments on the same branch and when they would fall off (because there were already 20 ornaments on that branch), he would yell and say "It can't fit!". After that if one fell he'd just leave it on the floor and mutter to himself "it can't fit" then go pick out another one. I'm always thankful for naptime!

Well I spoke too soon!! "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth, my two front teeth.....". The two side ones are loose too and she said, "mom, I don't think they are ready yet!"

Big day at our house! As you can see Abigail lost one of her front teeth today. The other one is not far behind so we will be singing "All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth!". She told me "Mom I'm a tooth lossing girl!". Yes she said "lossing" not losing. She said it feels weird mom!