Christmas (Part II)

Later that night, we headed over to Sandy's house to celebrate with Jon's Dad (Papa ET), Sandy and two of her kids, Chris and Courtney. This has become somewhat of a tradition for us, since we are almost always home in CO for Christmas Eve, it is nice to know that even when we are far away from most of our family we still have a small little piece here to celebrate with. It was a great evening with a delicious meal as always, and thankfully Adam took a great nap (after our snafu with letting him open presents right before nap time) and was especially charming/adorable. Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve

 Adam was all about saying 'Cheese'

 Parking all his cars in the 'garage'

 His new remote control car!

 Snuggling with Papa ET

 Finally starting to get tired (it was already like 8:30)

Sandy with Chris and Courtney

Christmas (Part I)

Here are some pictures from the first part of our Christmas. We opened up all the presents from family members, grandparents, etc. We will normally do this on Christmas Eve, however, we were going over to Papa Et and Sandy's house so we opened them a little early before nap time (not our best move, as it was then impossible to pry Adam away from all his new toys to eat lunch and take a nap :)

 He loves his new puppy towel!

 Learning how to take wrapping paper off

 In awe of Lightning and Mater

 New race track for all the cars Grandma and Grandpa got him

 Trying out all the different sounds his new puzzle makes

 Dancing to his new recordable book

 I don't know Lulu, it's a little small :)

A much better fit!

Our Winter Break Project

Our project over Winter Break was to transition Adam into his new big boy bed/room, in anticipation of our new little ones arrival! My parents were out in October and helped paint and set everything up, but we wanted to wait until we had a good chunk of time to dedicate to the big switch. Since we are not traveling this Christmas :( and we were going to be home for naps and bedtime for two solid weeks, we decided this would be the perfect opportunity, lots of consistency and plenty of down time for Mom and Dad (for naps) in case it didn't go well. 

Reading stories with Daddy 

And just before we said goodnight and turned out the lights.

I must say it was all at once adorable and heartbreaking to see our little baby in this giant bed looking so tiny and so grown up all at once. But we snapped one last picture, turned out the lights and shut his door and that was the last we heard of him til morning! He talked to himself for awhile, like he normally does, but then was quiet. Every time we checked on him he was sleeping soundly and he stayed that way until the morning. We first heard him at about 7:15 (which is amazing considering he gets up for school at 6:30)! 

We are now one week into the big switch and we've had some small hiccups with naptime and teething, but otherwise he has done great. We are so proud of our big boy!

Santa!

We went and visited Santa today at Streets of Southglenn in Littleton. I love that place...Santa was totally free and you get to take your own pictures! We also got there right when Santa arrived at 12:00 and he sang a song and danced with all the kids before he sat down, definitely went above and beyond. Adam once again did a great job...no big smiles, but there were no tears either. Clearly a huge success!

Sledding!

Winter has officially come to Colorado! It has snowed multiple times over the last week and the temperatures have been frigid. As soon as we started getting some accumulating snow, Jon ran out and got Adam his first sled! We got all bundled up on Saturday morning and walked to a little hill just up the street from our house. It is hardly a sledding hill, but it was good enough for Adam. He wasn't crazy about the snow in his face and we were only able to stay out for about 20 minutes, but we still had a good time :)

 somewhat unsure of this whole sledding thing

 cold, snowy and windy

 terrified of crashing

 likes this way much better

Let the season begin!

We just started pulling out our Christmas decorations this past weekend. Here is the newest addition to our collection. As you can see, Adam loves it, especially when it squeaks while closing and he thinks it is the 'beep beep' of a car :)

Christmas Lighting

We attempted to take part in the Santa parade and Christmas lighting festivities in Old Town Littleton the day after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately it got a little too cold and windy and Adam was quite uncooperative :( However, here are a few pictures of all the people with which we were planning on spending the evening.