Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

 So these pictures got put in some random order but that is ok. We have been doing lots of fun christmas activities this year since Calvi really gets Christmas. It is really fun to introduce all the fun stuff we liked to do as kids to him and see how excited he gets about it all. Here we are with santa.

 There was a place in town that was doing a fun christmas day and so we went to check it out. We saw santa but Calvi was way more excited to see the Grinch. He has seen the show and loves it and will sometimes act like him.  It is pretty funny, the Grinch did a good job of acting the part. The kids thought it was fun.

 They also had hay rides. I had both my sisters and their kids there so it was really fun to do all the stuff with the cousins.

 Calvi got a little nativity set from his gma and gpa and he loves it.  When he got it he told me "dont touch it mom it is mine and Jodi's it is very special." He is silly.

 We had a little gingerbread decorating party. Calvi was so excited we had invitations and invited a few friends to come do it with us. He told me "mom this is mine and claras party not yours ok mom" and when people came over clara and calvi were at the door saying welcome to my party they were so happy and had so much fun.

 Here is what calvi came up with after putting candy on taking it off to eat it and then get some more to put on again.

 We set our tree up on Thanksgiving Calvi was so excited he said it is Christmas time mom is it!! This is where i found jodi today just playing right under the tree. The kids have been really good to not touch or take things off the tree but as you can see they get as close as they can.

 We got our train set out, Calvi is in love! he thinks it is so cool. I usually have it around the tree but jodi is to crazy with it so we keep it under the couch and pull it out when she is sleeping. Calvi could watch it all day.

 Here is the fam just hangin out.

 We had a christmas breakfast where santa left a little package for the kids. It was an elf calvi named jellybean. It is like the elf on the shelf but we did it a little different and it has been a lot of fun to see what he is up to every morning. Calvi asks for christmas waffles all the time now.

 Here are a few picts i got of the kids before church one day they are both getting so big.

 Jodi is such a little girl.

 The first time we saw santa was at the library. We got to the library and he was sitting right by the door and calvi just stopped and was like dad mom do you see that it is santa!! he ran inside and just started jumping up and down with his cousin and they were so excited to see him. when he went up to talk to him santa asked what he wanted for christmas and calvi pointed and said i just want one of those candy canes. (one in that big basket) and santa said is that all you want how about a toy. Calvi said no just a candy cane. It was pretty funny and he was so happy and excited about that candy cane.

 So we do story time at the library and right before Thanksgiving we got to go on a trip to the fire station  Calvi was so excited about going but once we got there he was a little freaked out as you can see. he was fine if he was holding on to me but when i wanted to take a picture this is what i got.

After being there for a bit he relaxed and had a good time and we were able to actually get a good pict. So we have been having lots of fun and are getting really excited for Christmas to come.