Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas!

It's officially midnight as I'm typing right now and that means Christmas is officially over. What a sad thing! Today was so perfect and I don't want it to end yet, therefore to stretch today out, I'll blog about it:

Logan is officially big now. All month, whenever Logan has asked what he wants from Santa he just says " a big boy bed!" We decided it was finally Logan's time to graduate from the crib (we put this off as long as we could)! So this morning Logan got what he wished for (thanks to Tamara we got a free toddler bed, thanks to Kristy it no longer has Nascar stickers on it--big bummer, I know--and thanks to Andy for helping me make a quilt for it!)

He was ecstatic to actually see his big boy bed "under" the tree this morning. Here's the evidence:



He rolled and jumped and frolicked all day on his bed. It will be hard for Santa to beat this present next year!

Fearing the sudden freedom of our toddler, we anticipated putting him back to bed many times tonight, but this is what we found 1/2 hour after laying him down tonight:



But then just a half hour ago, he had found his way out of bed, and either tripped on a chair or ran into a baby gate, causing a nose bleed and much screaming. We'll see how the rest of tonight goes.

*Update* I just heard some jabbering from Lo's room, so I went to check on him and sure enough there he was just standing waiting for someone to come. Here goes attempt #3 to put him to bed.


Lo playing with all his animals



Lo's awesome bookshelf that Ben made. It just needs to be painted now.



Savoring candy from his stocking



Because we were away from my home this Christmas, I made the traditional Christmas breakfast casserole that we have every year. Yum!



Ben and Lo playing with Legos from his stocking (a Parker tradition)

It was so nice to have a relaxing day full of family, fun and play! Merry Christmas!

7 comments:

Kristy said...

That was the cutest video ever!
Looks like you had a fabulous Christmas!
Good luck with the un-contained toddler...not looking forward to it at all!

Unknown said...

The Superman dive on to the bed was awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Lee and Sharon said...

We loved watching your Christmas morning adventures. Thank you for sharing it with us. wish we could have been there - but this was fun for us any way.
Looks like Logan got some fun gifts. Love all of those animals. Does he know all of their names? I wish I had some videos of our past Christmas's to watch. What good memories you guys are making. Next year there will be another one to buy for as well. Love you all.

Tamara said...

I pretty much have the cutest nephews ever!

Emily said...

That was so cute to see Logan with his "big boy bed"! I loved it! I didn't know you guys were here for Christmas. I should've found out and come to see you. It's good to see how fun your Christmas was!

Kaye said...

It was fun to have you over on Christmas. It's always better with a little one around!

Marce said...

Oh gosh that was so cuuute!! And I absolutely love the bookshelf Ben made. I'm showing it to mike so that he can follow suit :) hope you're feeling well, kris! We miss you guys! Sending you a hug.