Twas the night before Christmas....

Noah and Daddy came out of Noah's room to remind me to put milk and cookies out for Santa.  It was funny, because I just threw away a bag of cookies.  Thankfully, I had not thrown away the cookies I made a few weeks ago.  Yes, they need to be pitched and I will do that tomorrow.  Anyway, I just put crumbs on the plate and a tiny bit of milk in the mug.  He'll be excited to see the left overs on the plate.

This is our crazy tree.  Yes, the ornaments are all at the top and that's the way it will be for years to come.  Santa already left his presents under there.  They are toward the back in case Noah did come down.  He would remember what he saw and if it was from Santa and under there, we'd be busted.

Check out that sweet belly!

E was on the phone.  It's so cute how you don't have to teach kids how to use a phone.  They just pick so much up by watching.

Love this pic of me and Caleb.  It was so sweet how he touched my face.

My mom (Ooma) took the boys on a hike after purchasing them a bunch of warm gear.  I didn't think Caleb would put it all on, but he did.

This week we drove through Lone Elk park and saw FIVE wild turkeys.  That was SO cool!

Doctor E, paging doctor E.  Again he picked this up on his own.  It was so cute.  He put those on his neck and started walking around the house.

I was out without the boys and saw this guy in Kirkwood.  I thought the boys would love to see a fully decorated tree on the back of a car.  It had lights and they were on!

I just thought this was cute.  We see Ron way too often!

This is from the neighbors house.  Noah wanted his pic with both of these giant things.  We don't do pics with Santa, because the boys freak out.  Not worth the money, but this was free :)

This is a pic of my boys at Missouri Botanical Gardens.  We've been to the train display 3 or 4 times this year.  We have a membership, so it's cheap (free) and the boys love watching the trains and finding something new each time.

Twas the night before Christmas and everyone (except me) is finally fast asleep!  I'm SO excited about tomorrow.  The boys are excited too.  We opened a few presents tonight and it was great.  Uncle Jonathan, Aunt Christine, Alex and Ethan always do such a great job on gifts for the boys.  They played with everything and had a great time.  

While Byron was reading to the boys, I cleaned the downstairs.  Just cleaned up after dinner and presents.  Then I got to play Santa and bring up all the gifts and put them under the tree.  I got a new little point and shoot camera tonight and some very cool boy mom t-shirts.  I can't wait to wear one tomorrow.  I'm also going to only use my new little camera.  When I use my good camera I think I miss too much of the moment and I don't want to do that.  All these are from my old camera, except the tree pic that's my new camera.

Gotta get to sleep so I don't run into Santa.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.