Christmas 2015

Here are some of the pictures of our many Christmas' that we celebrated this year with our families.

Looking at Gigi's (his great grandma) Christmas Tree.

2nd Cousins playing in a box together.

Mimi with Easton and Tucker

Cousins in matching jammies; a tradition Mimi started with the kids on Christmas Eve.

Daddy and Griffin Christmas Morning 

Playing with his Santa gift when he woke up at 5:30.

Opening his stocking first.

Riding one of his new toys.

His "I got what was on my Christmas list" face

He LOVES his new drum set.

Playing Peek-a-boo with Daddy through Tucker's Santa gift.

Griffin and Easton

Grandma reading to Griffin

More cousins

Griffin playing Peek-a-Boo with Aunt Stacey

Tucker loves his dress up as a construction worker set.

Christmas Party

I am so blessed to be able to work at the same school that the boys attend. I talked to my coworker about watching my kids during our combined Christmas party to go see Tucker. Of course she said go, as well as did the parents who were running the party. They all understand that family is important. I was able to sneak over to Tucker's party for a few minutes before having to go back to my class.

Christmas Program

The other night Tucker had his Christmas program. His class went and put presents around the Christmas Tree and then sat down and sang.

Thank you to those of his family who came to see him perform in his first, of many, Wesley Christmas Programs.

 Tucker with his teacher, Ms. LeBlanc, 

before the program started.

 Here Tucker spotted his cousin, Easton, in

audience and was very excited. 

Musician

Griffin has shown lots of interest in music lately. He loves to dance, sing, play the drums, and play the guitar.

 

Creative

Tucker has been showing quite the creative side to himself lately. He is using his imagination to turn normal things into things he wants to be playing with.

 

Here he is with a golf club using it as a telescope to look for pirates in the backyard.

 

 

Here he is using a funnel as a microphone to sing into.

 

 

 

Here he took his Halloween costume and Griffin's to combine

them to make Marshall from Paw Patrol. 

Accident Prone

I have decided that Tucker is going to be my accident prone child. The other day he was playing in the home center at school and tripped on a rug and the corner of the table he landed on won. Thankfully he didn't get his eye and that it was a rounded corner and not pointed. He is going to have a nice scrape on his face for a while.

Book Character Day

Today at school was dress up as your favorite book character to celebrate the book fair going on. The boys don't really have favorite characters so I picked their favorite book and went with it. Tucker loves the book, You Are My Sunshine, (could be because mommy used to sing it to him while she rocked him) so he had a shirt with a sun on it. Griffin loves farm books so he was a cow. They both were doing great in the parade until Griffin saw Mommy and that was the end of the parade for him.

 

Firetrucks and Friends

This afternoon the boys were invited to Tristian's birthday party. Tucker and Tristian were in the same class last year at school. Even though we don't see them very much now they pick up as if no time has passed at all. Tucker also got to play with a former classmate, Parker, too. He sure does miss his friends from TCS. The boys loved getting to ride in a firetruck and see how it works and spend time with some old friends.

Sharing

 More times than not the boys do not share whatever it is they are playing with, eating, etc. The other afternoon was one of those rare occasions that the boys were sharing. I had been giving Griffin tiny pieces of apple and then Tucker decided to give him a piece of his. Griffin enjoyed eating apple like a big boy like brother. 

Labor Day

After being in school for almost 3 weeks, we needed a 3 day weekend from school. Griffin got ear infections in both ears last week and we found out the next day his room had mold in it due to a leaking pipe in the attic. He has been bunking in Mommy and Daddy's room and him and Mommy aren't getting much sleep.

Last night we got together with the Traphagan side of the family to celebrate Labor Day and the Griffin side tonight. The boys sure do love getting to play with their cousins.

Growing up, Pop (Mommy's dad), always made homemade ice cream. He still likes to make it on special occasions. Tucker was his assistant this afternoon with mixing up the ice cream and helping put in more ice and rock salt. Griffin and Tucker both enjoyed getting to eat Pop's ice cream. Tucker went back for 3rds!