Wow.....

It has been a crazy holiday season so far. We're anxiously waiting for christmas!! Especially the boys. Matthew is as wild as ever and is constantly asking about Santa and his reindeer. He is no longer scared of Santa and went to visit him 3 times already. He now realizes that Santa is the one who brings presents at christmas time and that if he tells santa what he wants, that he may bring it. Even though Matthew discovered the stash of presents in the closet *my fault for not closing it all the way* he still thinks that Santa will bring the presents. We stashed the gifts in a locked closet and the boys have not even seen the wrapping paper yet. Matthew happened to follow me into the storage room and his eyes lit up like the sun... He said, "holy Cow mommy" and I knew what he saw. I rushed him out of the closet and then the questions began.... If you know matthew, when he gets on a roll with questions, he does NOT stop. He is never satisfied with a single answer. He started off with, "are those santa's presents" then came "why did he leave them here" "Is it Christmas now", "Why doesnt santa have his own closet".... and so on. Finally he gave up when I told him that if he kept asking questions that all the little boys and girls that we are holding the presents for will not get them, because Santa will throw them away if we told his secret hiding place. Then he asked who keeps the gifts for them before christmas and we told him that they were special and that Santa will bring the gifts for them from the North Pole, but only if they were good boys. And that was that. There's been no mention of the closet since 2 weeks ago.

So, the boys are really excited about christmas. This year is easy for Matthew, since he just likes everything. He's into the superheroes and transformers, robots, sports, movies, games, drawing, coloring and writing his letters and loves to count everything. But he will be really fun this year since he is a bit older and more understanding of Christmas now and what will happen.

We got our family portraits done a few weeks ago and are excited to get them back soon. Matthew of course was such a ham. The portraits will be really cute and we cant wait. Funny story: When it was Matthew's turn to get his portrait alone, he didnt want to. He wanted Andrew to stand with him. To get his attention I told him to pose and we said "Matthew, what are you bringing?" and he immediately started posing and said "I'm bringin sexy back" LOL. The photographer was laughing so hard she could barely take the pictres... but needless to say, with his posing the photos came out cute. We'll post them as soon as we get them.

Saying goodbye for now and promise to update again soon.
Dont forget to check Andrews blog for his updates too. http://allstarandrew.blogspot.com