A Day in the McLife: December 2011

Monday, December 19, 2011

"Christmas Morning"

We're heading to IL tomorrow and will be spending Christmas there so, as usual, Santa made a pit stop in Greenville a little early.

Santa placed the kid's stockings under Lane's tree in his room. When he woke up he forgot to check under his tree. (Even though he has been checking since the tree has been up!) So I reminded him and he went to plug it in and said to himself "Hey! Who put these stockings under my tree?" Then he realized there were presents in there. :-)

He opened this claw thing and played with it in our bed for the next 30 minutes. (Best $5 Santa ever spent!) Parker played with her book and she got a pair of red Christmas shoes. (Santa has good taste)

We came out for breakfast and Lane was still oblivious to the fact that there were more presents for him. I guess he thought the claw was his Christmas gift. So we continued to make breakfast and then Matt asked him if he checked under the tree and then he ran over and started tearing into them!

He even noticed that Santa took some bites of his cookies.

We finished up breakfast and then he opened the rest.

Parker kept saying cheers! to Christmas morning!

Parker wasn't super impressed with any presents. She did like the trucks Lane got. And she did play with her cupcakes, but she was really content with carrying around the boxes.

Then the assembly of Christmas gifts started. Really only one toy needed some intense assembly and only one needed batteries. Santa did good this year!

Christmas aftermath

The rest of our day was spent playing with new toys!

We cleaned windows (and by we, I mean Matt-Merry Christmas to me!)

and took a walk in the evening to check out the neighborhood Christmas lights.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

More Christmas in Greenville

We've filled the last 2 weeks with Christmas galore! We celebrated at Lane's Happy Birthday Jesus Party, where he did not sing one line of any of the 3 songs. He would sing them at home, but not during the program.

We made Holiday treats for our neighbors.

This is what my kitchen looked like during that day....a MESS!

The treats started out very disastrous as well, but I finally figured out (after 3 bags of chocolate chips) how to properly melt it.

My kitchen assistant got bored in the kitchen so he turned to digging in rice.

The treats turned out pretty cute and edible to boot! (They were actually quite tasty)

Ready to deliver

We spent one night last week celebrating "Christmas at Heritage Park"

Albeit it was 68 degrees at 7 o clock, but they had Rudolph and fake snow so we got the feel. I can't say the hot chocolate was very appealing though. (Parker was checking out the "snow")

This is a typical Lane thing whenever we do something out of routine. He was scared of the train because he thought it was going to be loud so he asked to ride in the stroller and covered his ears.

The "Big, scary" train Lane was "afraid" of.

He did want to talk with Santa again though so we stood in line to visit with him. Can't say I'm digging the background very much. I think I will buy them a white sheet or something for their back drop next year! I mean really...a BLUE TARP. Hah!