Santa Came!

Look who stopped by early this morning!!

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!

Annual Santa Run at Baba and Dziadzi's

Santa showed up on his fire truck about an hour and a half early this year!!  We almost missed him, but luckily for some good ears of our hubby's we were able to gather all the kiddos together and head out to try and get some Santa pictures.

Katie was a big girl this year and went right up to Santa, sat on his lap and told him that she wanted a couple of Doc McStuffin toys.  Katie and Maddie wanted nothing to do with him.  AJ felt the same way, but Cioci Kimmy was able to document it.  And Chloe, she didn't think he was too bad!

Bye Santa.. We'll see you again next year!

Ice Palace 2013

Our annual trip to the WestFarms Mall Ice Palace to visit Santa continued this year.  This year we brought along Baba for the ride to keep Mommy sane just in case there was a long line to meet Santa.  Luckily, it was a pretty short line and both of the kiddos were well behaved!  AJ was scared to sit with Santa again this year so I made another cameo in the photo.  All in all, it was a good trip (other than another car running over AJ's green sippy cup as we pulled out of our parking place!)!

How tall is AJ?

I love this little one with all my heart and then some..

Baba tried to photobomb our picture!

Selfie! 

AJ was intrigued by the falling 'snow'

Snow fun with Baba!

He even made a new friend!

He couldn't get enough

Making little piles of snow for Momma to look at

Our 2013 picture with Santa

Sitting in the Ice Throne!

[Yes, the seat itself was freezing cold!]

Santa Hat

After coming home from AJ's doctors appointment and waking up from his nap, AJ saw his santa hat and decided he wanted to wear it.  So - just like those mittens earlier this morning - on went the santa hat!

Mommy and her little Santa 

Smiley Santa!

That awesome froggy sticker AJ is wearing is his gold star for the day from the three shots he had at his doctor's appointment!

'Mom... give me the camera!'

Christmas Morning

When Michael and I woke up this morning and walked into the living room, it was quite apparent that Santa had come for a visit!  Our tree was overflowing with presents...

Looks like Santa came back and dropped a few off after I sneaked a peek last night!

So of course we went right in and woke up AJ to show him all of the goodies

He didn't seem to be all that amused by us. 

But then we brought him out to the living room...

'Hmmm... what are all of these things?'

'Oooh... a riding dino!'

'Time to take it for a ride!'

Then he noticed the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse pull-out sofa..

..And had to take a seat to see if it was comfy!

Next it was time to open presents.. AJ got into it!

Yay! More Mickey Mouse Clubhouse pics!  Santa is the best!

'And Thomas the Train bath toys? Woohoo!'

Santa also brought a doggie guitar...

..Which AJ promptly put on and started jamming before Mommy could even take the tags off!

After lots and lots of present opening, this is only a glimpse of what our living room looks like.  Santa was REALLY good to us this year!

I bought these antlers back at the beginning of December so I could take some pics of AJ in them, but completely forgot where I put them.  Fast forward to Christmas morning when I found them and I decided I wanted to wear them!

But then AJ wanted in on them too!

Daddy's AWESOME wrapping job! ;)

AJ wanted to give the Dino a second chance.  I think he likes him!

Daddy put together AJ's Thomas chair so he had to give that a test sitting too!

Merry Christmas to us!

And again.. but sans the antlers!

What a very merry Christmas this was this year.  AJ was a lot more into it and he really seemed to enjoy everything Santa brought him.  We are so blessed!