Merry Christmas!
Hulk SMASH!!!!!!!!
The babies' Santa loot
Putting out cookies for Santa
Mommy and Mason decorating the Santa cookies
Mason's Santa loot
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We had a great time. We had a very busy Christmas Eve as we tried to get everything eady for Cristmas day. We went to my parents' house that day to exchange gifts with them and Mason got his favorite present- a Batmobile! It really is cool. You can push a button and it opens up and Batman comes riding out on a motorcycle. I'm not sure who's had more fun playing with it- Mason or Matt! Mason had a tough time going to sleep on Christmas Eve, and he was worried that Santa might skip our house because he was awake. But he must have fallen asleep eventually, because Santa came in a big way! If it had a superhero, or Power Ranger, or Ninja Turtle on it, Mason got it! He was so excited, and it was so much fun to watch him on Christmas morning. Even the babies got into it. They were both very excited to see all their new toys. They got several cute things, but their favorite thing is this soft, flexible plastic ball with holes all over it. They can pick it up and hold it really well, plus it doesn't hurt when they whack themselves in the head with it! Thank goodness Santa brought one for each of them or we might have some serious baby brawls!
I had given Matt several little fun gadget kind of things for Christmas, like a coffee travel mug that you can program to keep your coffee warm, a new coffee grinder, a cocktail shaker, just fun stuff that I thought he'd like. (He wanted a Wii, but I think that's going to have to wait for Mason's fifth birthday!) He gets the husband of the year awarrd for his thoughtful gift. He gave me a beautiful pair of amethyst earrings, which is the twins' birthstone. I had been teasing him about buying my present on Christmas Eve for the past few years, and basically just grabbing whatever random, girly thing he spotted on the shelf first, so he really raised the bar this year! But I truly loved them, and appreciated the lovely sentiment behind them.
Matt's mom and his brother, who was visiting from Chicago, came to have breakfast with us on Christmas morning and Mason had a good time with Uncle Jonathan. We had exchanged gifts with them and Matt's Aunt Judy earlier in the week, and Uncle Jonathan won Mason over with a five-pack on Transformers. He knows the way to a nephew's heart!
We also celebrated with Matt's dad earlier in the week, so we just about had more Christmas than we knew what to do with! We spent Christmas day with my big ol' family at my aunt's house. Everyone had a great time, and we were really glad that my grandmother was able to make it since she wasn't able to be with us at Thanksgiving. Mason got even more fabulous presents, so he's been in hog heaven ever since. Every time he turns around, he spots one of his new toys to play with. Wonder how long that will last before he starts whing that he has nothing to do!
Yesterday Matt and I had a few of our friends from high school over like we do every year. A couple of our friends weren't able to make it, so we were a smaller group this year, but it was great to see them and we had a good time.
My mom and I hit the mall for the after-Christmas sales today. We found some decent deals, but nothing amazingly cheap. I found a few things and got out of the house for a little while, so it was a worthwhile trip. We had movie night with Mason tonight and watched "Kung Fu Panda." He was trying to kung fu the living room, and it has been no easy feat to get his kung fu fanny to bed!
Matt's got the next several days off of work, so I'm hoping we can get some things done around here. But knowing us, we'll wind up lazing around, wasting time. Oh well, I guess we can just call it quality time and not feel too bad about not getting a bunch of projects done!
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