Christmas A Little Bit Later

Laurie and Stacey came over to celebrate Christmas with us tonight.  Miss Chloe got some adorable coral and navy onesies for the summer and AJ got a 50-piece farm set complete with a huge rock mountain, farm animals and palm trees.  Palm trees?!  Yes, palm trees.  Odd, I know - but AJ LOVES it and can't stop playing with it.  Laurie and Stace also brought over an activty for AJ - pipe cleaners and alphabet blocks. AJ made a few bracelets for Mommy and learned about the alphabet in the process.  It's a win-win!

Christmas at Baba and Dziadzi's

We went over to Baba and Dziadzi's to celebrate the Kocon side of Christmas this morning.  As usual, our hands were full with the kiddos (and lots and lots of presents!) and not that many pictures were taken.  Or only one picture was taken.  See below.  FAIL to me on not taking any pictures! :(  There's always next year, right?!

Merry Christmas and an Announcement!

Our Christmas card this year was a picture from our photo session with Jerome back in November.  And we also sent out Chloe's birth announcement at the same time!

Christmas 2013

I think Mommy and Daddy were more excited to wake up in the morning to see what Santa brought the kiddos than AJ and Chloe were!  Santa definitely spoiled our two sweeties this year...he even brought AJ a train table!! Mommy wasn't able to take too many pictures this Christmas morning as I was holding Chloe for the majority of the gift opening, but the few snapshots we got shows enough of the love and happiness that we felt this Christmas morning!

Checking out the new train table...

I can't tell if he was angry or excited here..that face is kind of confusing!

Playing!

There's that smile of his!!

Having Daddy help him with the new battery powered locomotive..

Santa knew he would like it!

Stop the papparazzi!

AJ finally got the blue snake he was asking Santa for!!

Timber isn't quite sure what to think of the new 'animal' in the house

Next it was Chloe's time for presents...

She looks thrilled about her new fleece outfit, right?! (Those eyes crack me up!)

AJ wanted to help open Chloe's presents too!

Chloe's new Ladybug night light

Our first Christmas as a family of four :)

Santa Came!

Look who stopped by early this morning!!

Christmas Eve Selfie's

Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandma's

For the past few years since I've met Michael, we have always spent our Christmas Eve at his mother's friend's (JoAnn) house in Oxford, MA.  Unfortunately, JoAnn's situation has changed over the past year and she will no longer be hosting Christmas Eve, which is a complete bummer!  However, I think we might have created a new tradition of spending Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandma's house!!  The kids and I made our way up to their house and met Michael after her got out of work.  We enjoyed our usual Christmas dinner of Chinese food and then opened all of our presents.  Miss Chloe was a tad bit fussy so it made it hard to play our guessing game this year, but alas I still won! YES!!  Grandma and Grandma always shower us and the kiddos with lots of gifts - we are quite lucky!!  Michael scored his big gun safe, I got the double BOB stroller and the kids got lots of awesome clothes, books and other fun items!  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa - we can't wait to do it again next year!

Michael opening up one of his gifts.

AJ loved his new frog ornament!

However he loved this play rifle even more!

Chloe wasn't all that amused by what was going on. 

A boy and his toy!

So excited!

Grandma and Grandpa with the kiddos

Kisses for Grandma

Grandpa was singing to try and calm Chloe down

Grandma was too.

Look at all those stockings!

Our polka dot girl!

 

Harmonica Boy

AJ's favorite toy that Santa had for him in his sack of toys was a harmonica.  He played with that musical instrument for the rest of the night!  He even put on a show for Mommy and Daddy!

Visitor From the North Pole

Tonight while Grandma and Grandpa were over we heard some jingle bells outside.  We went to the side door and Santa Claus was standing outside!!  Since it was so cold , we let him inside with his jingle bell and sack of presents.  The kiddos were quite anxious to see what was inside his jolly old bag!

I don't think AJ could believe his eyes.. Santa was at HIS house!

Starting to get into it... Clearly, Timber was too!

Santa brought AJ a doggy pillow pet!

And another present! How lucky!

Our Jolly 'Ol Santa Claus

Santa wanted to give AJ a hug

He wasn't sure too sure of it though...

And now he's just scared... again!

Poor kiddo did not want to sit on Santa's lap and take a picture!

Chloe seemed to think the guy in the red suit wasn't too bad. 

He sure did enjoy holding our precious little girl. 

AJ wanted to show Santa what his favorite toy is for the week... a singing Santa Claus ornament.

Chloe was a big perplexed how Santa could be on the ornament and in her living room holding her

.. look at those eyes!

Kisses for Chloe from Big Brother

Santa just loved holding Chloe and she seemed to enjoy it as well.

I tried to get a brother and sister photo with Santa.. but no dice!

Again.. Chloe was all about sitting with the Big Guy!

Showing Santa his new Lego toy.

Uh.. Time for Santa to return to the North Pole! 

Thanks for the visit Santa... hopefully you can make it back next year!