Christmas Update

Kayla and Colin were overloaded with Christmas presents this year.  Whether we were at a grandparents or at our house, present opening typically went something like this.  Colin would open the first present and which ever present that was, he's get super excited about it and want to open it as soon as possible.  Ignoring the rest of the presents, I would then have to open them since he only cared about whichever the first one was.  On the other hand, Kayla would open her presents one at a time, say how cool it was, then move on to the next present.  Once done, she would help me open the rest of Colin's, then move on to mine and Jordan's, and then any other presents that need opening.  They were both pretty cute.  Here is Kayla wearing a super cute Dora hat while playing 'Pet' on one of our phones.

Kayla's been getting into playing memory games.  She's surprisingly good at it, and her teachers at school have even noticed.  At school she plays a game matching big and little letters.  Once a match is found, she then has to say the sound of the letter.  Kayla is so good at these letter and memory games that her teacher made a note of how much she well she does with these.

Kayla got a kid laptop computer with games already downloaded on it.  I haven't figured out who likes it more, Kayla or Colin!

On Christmas Eve, we wrote a nice note to Santa, and the next morning, Santa delivered!

Now why couldn't we get this nice of a picture when we were trying to take our Christmas card photo?!  Either way, we have a great photo of all of us now.  : )

Mmm....blue sucker.  Colin has started calling Jordan and I by a different name instead on Mama and Dada. Now it's Dahdee and Mumee.  It is sooooo cute!

After a whirlwind weekend of lots of grandparent visits and presents, this is what our car and kids looked like going home.

When we made it home, the kids discovered that Santa had visited our house too!

Colin went right for the car and Kayla headed for the kitchen.  They were quite happy with what Santa brought.

Although the car was definitely the favorite between the two and they still have trouble sharing that car.  Hopefully once we take it out in the spring and it joins our fleet of kid cars and bikes, we won't have to worry about sharing quite as much.

Kayla and Colin have been playing so well lately and for Colin, more independently.  They'll go play upstairs with the car or the ball pit, then back downstairs playing chase or hide and seek.

Dahdee and Colin playing and giving goofy smiles.

Kayla watching her youtube shows on the computer when Colin came over to watch with her.  When that didn't last long, Colin actually started to wrestle with her!  It was so cute to watch and Kayla played back for a couple of minutes.  It didn't last too long since she wanted to get back to her shows, which is why she doesn't look too happy, but we were amused.

For New Years Eve, we took Kayla to downtown Chicago again to see the fireworks.  We took the train and stopped at the Rainforest Cafe for dinner.  Kayla got her picture taken with a frog!

Happy New Years!