Catching up

So as you noticed I haven't posted the last 2 days leading up to Christmas. I guess the holidays got the best of me and I either got way to tired or way to busy. Rest assured, we did get in everything planned and it has all been well documented with the camera. I am just going to combine the 23rd thru the 24th on this post. So sorry if it is overly long.

December 23- Baking cookies for Santa

Well we couldn't find just a regular sugar cookie mix at the Dollar store they were sold out, but they did have one box left of funfetti sugar cookies (score)! It was fun did the trick and we had a great time baking the cookies. First of all I had gotten off work early that day, Ryan went shopping with my mom to buy me my Christmas present (the kid has great taste, of course he did learn from the two best people his mom and nanny). When he got home we took naps, long naps. He slept till 7 and that usually means we are both up late. So we started baking cookies at 9,

then we played the wii and then at 11 we loaded up and went to Reasors to buy dessert because I didn't feel like making it this year and I wanted to avoid crowds. I know I looked like a winner walking in the Reasor's at 11 p.m. with my 5 year old, but hey we had naps and we weren't going anywhere the next day. Anyways we never got around to decorating the cookies because then we were tired and we slept.

December 24-frosting cookies and fondue

So we woke up Christmas Eve Ryan at 7:30 excited it was Christmas Eve, me at 9 because I was exhausted. I went ahead and pulled my new Kreuig out of the box and plugged in it and proceeded to try a million different kinds of coffees and then I spent the rest of the day in the bathroom, yikes! Won't do that again. Sorry TMI, Anyways so we got around to frosting cookies,

picking out the best 2 and putting them on Santa's plate for the evening. I had a special secret Santa mission to accomplish so we got ready I took Ryan to my mom's house and I ran all over Green Country. I finally made it to my brothers house that evening where I was promptly told by my 5 year old that I was late and the last one to come here. Then the festivities began for the last several Christmas eve's and for a lot of my child hood we had fondue. Back before it was popular (I know it was popular in the 70's but not so much in the 80's and 90's ok) back before chocolate and cheese fondue and we just used oil and cooked different meats. Time has evolved on how we cook the fondue and now we all have fondue pots and we bring them out this time of the year. Well Ryan loved the meat fondue, he didn't try dipping in the chocolate or the cheese but just ate the stuff plain.

After fondue we had present time and it was great, I got everything I ordered myself (ha ha, it's true). Ryan had a great time and then we went home.

He said his sad goodbye's to duke (elf on the shelf) put milk in Santa's cup got his Christmas jammies on and then he went to bed. Then the waiting game began. I was so excited on what Santa was bringing Ryan I couldn't sleep at all.

Advent Calendar

23rd- Silly putty

24th-  More magnets

December 22- Game night

So we were going to do board games but we decided to do the Wii instead. Ryan has never been much into video games, but he loves him some wii bowling and he is good, he beats me every time. I wish you could be there and here all of his comments he had me laughing all night long, here are a few snapshots of the evening. Look carefully at his mouth he has to have his tongue sticking out to play it cracks me up.

he got an i spare(nice spare) and was super excited

Today was the 22nd day of the advent and he got horse trading cards

December 21- Holiday Book

So we didn't have much time together again so our activity was just reading a fun book. We found a Merry Christmas Curious George book that Ryan didn't realize he had, so we read that tonight.

Today for advent he got smarties! He loves those candies.

December 20-Coloring night

I had planned to have a color night he got new crayons for his advent calendar.

I told him to open his eyes bigger, now he looks like he has had botox.

Then I got him this really cool coloring book.

I thought he would love it and spend the whole night coloring and watching Christmas shows.

Well I was wrong and I have apparently spoiled the child. Because he thought we needed to do a craft. So luckily I had some pipe cleaners and they came to the rescue last night.

Pipe cleaners candy canes. Now I didn't have red and white, but pink and green had to do. He had fun he hung them all over his tree.

I finally did get him to color me a picture

So apparently I am the greatest mom ever, according to Ryan. He has been telling everyone that he has the best mom and that this has been the best Christmas ever. Because he get to do crafts all the time and go places like ice skating. That is exactly how I wanted him to feel. I accomplished my goal!

December 19-Reindeer clothes pin craft

I found this cute craft that I thought Ryan would enjoy, It's pretty simple

you take 3 clothes pin and a Popsicle stick

glue them to Popsicle stick like this

paint it brown

take a milk break

let it dry

add googly eyes and a red pom pom

tada you got Rudolph, except Ryan says it does not look like a reindeer, oh well
 I glued some ribbon on them so we could hang them on the tree,

19th day of advent Ryan got cars magnets.

December 18- Lazy Movie day

So the plan for the day was to have a polar express party. Didn't quite happen. We have been cleaning the house. Because I told Ryan that Santa can't come to a dirty house. Then we put on our PJ's by that time ELF was on TV and he wanted to finish that and then watch Miracle on 34th street. That was fine with me so we crawled in bed to watch Polar Express and he fell asleep within the first 10-15min. But it was a great day just watching movies and the kid will not try hot chocolate, no matter how hard I try. Now he loves chocolate milk and will not believe that hot chocolate is just chocolate milk warmed up. But he will drink coffee, go figure.

So to watch the first few movies we got out our sleeping bags and made a pallet on the floor

The 18th day of the advent calendar and he got a mini bowling set

As I was uploading the pictures to the computer apparently Ryan has gotten a hold of my camera because he took about 20 pictures of his toys and then I found this one and thought it was hilarious

I know its blurry  but for him to attempt to take a picture of himself just cracks me up.

December 17-New Christmas P.J.

So today Ryan goes to his dad so it was something short. He got new P.J's and he loves them and he says they feel so soft

and his advent calendar on the 17th is... a bunny

The final countdown to Christmas has began, Christmas shopping is finished and it is time to wrap presents, We are in the home stretch, I am loving it and I feel sad that this will all be over soon.