Christmas

On Christmas Eve, we attended our church service held at the Fredericksburg Expo Hall. It was a nice production with a large crowd, but even with toys, snacks, and drinks we couldn't occupy our boys for that long and we ended up leaving early and ate at Red Lobster before heading home. Add on top of that, Zachary's sinus infection, Mikie's nebulizer treatments that get him all riled up, and my constant coughing due to bronchitis and you've got one sick family that needed to be home resting on Christmas Eve.
The picture that follows is probably the closest I'll ever get to "matching" my children in their outfits. I know a lot of people find it very cute, but I would much rather having them "coordinating" instead of matching. And since Zachary's design is on the bottom of his vest and Mikie's is on the side I can still technically say they don't "match." (oh, alright.....they do match....but only this once!)

Here's the cookie Mikie left for Santa Claus:

Baby Jesus is lying in straw in the stable with a pink pig and a white cow next to him. All my Sunday School kids made these and Mikie wanted to give his to Santa.
Of course, we couldn't forget the 8 reindeer!

The surprise on Christmas Morning Video: if you listen carefully you can hear Mikie say "Holy Cow!" when he starts to play with his new toy.




Mikie reads the letter that Santa left him in the video below:

On Christmas Morning, the boys discover that Santa left them a new train set complete with multiple levels, mountains, and much more stable supports than the previous track had.

Ripping open presents only lasted for a little while. Mikie soon grew tired of opening them and refused to open any more. Zachary was enjoying his new toys and didn't care to continue either. They each got new Christmas jammies the night before, but Zachary had a runny diaper that exploded all over his cute Santa p.j.'s so he had to have the hand-me-down ones Mikie wore a few years ago.

Zachary plays with his duck-go-round game and looks for the quacking egg.

Mikie is happy to get a signal for his Thomas train tracks.

Can you tell how happy Zachary is to have a new dump truck? He also got the little lamb that is similar to the pig that he loves so much (fur-real pets). He walks around with his "baa baa" and smiles when he hugs it close to his head.

After most of the presents were opened, we drove up to Annapolis to Aunt June & Uncle Wardie's for Christmas dinner. Mikie was really good, but poor little Zachary had a yeast infection on his bottom from the antibiotics that he's on for a sinus infection and was just miserable and cranky.