Three years ago today we were all done with the fun stuff and hanging with the new kid on the block.  I had already gone to Joe's for my free lunch and let them know that in the future (i.e. today) that my family would be getting two free meals on this special day.

Adam is doing very well.  He had a great year, a big year for the guy.  Lots of learning, moving out of his crib to join Nick in the bunk bed, potty training and generally continuing to grow.

We had Adam's celebration, though he didn't look so happy in the video, today and will do a party early next year when his friends are around to do some bouncing.  Here is to a great year and another great year to come.

It has been a fun run up to Xmas this year.  For a long time neither of the boys was much interested in the holiday season.  As long as we can play we are good to go was the theme.  Last week Nick learned about hanukkah and wanted to celebrate that.  And yes for the obvious reason that they get 8 days of presents.

Adam really enjoyed the pretty lights but didn't really get the presents idea until recently.  The last couple of days before Xmas was a near constant barrage of "can we open the presents now" followed by the sad face after being rejected, unfair I am sure from his view.

Finally we got to open some presents from Grandma and Herb and Bev so there was much rejoicing.  Thanks to Grandma for the good day, everyone enjoyed it.

Upon arrival at home I showed Nick the NORAD website showing where Santa was and he got REALLY EXCITED!  He couldn't contain himself and was ready to go to sleep right away.  So off he went, but Adam was not quite so ready.  As I laid with Adam to get him to go to sleep, Adam was talking.  Nick took this none to kindly and was getting pretty frustrated with Adam due to the impending catastrophe of Santa skipping our house.  Luckily they both fell asleep and will get a visit from Santa.

They both only wanted 1 thing from Santa.  Socker Boppers (Nick believes they are soccer boppers) are the order of the day.  Nick was sweet, he said he didn't want more so that the elves could make toys for other kids to make sure they got what they wanted.

Merry Christmas Eve.

Ok, so I didn't do a great job of keeping up the blog (or so I have heard...).  November was a good month.  Adam was potty trained so now he is a big boy.  He is now ready to move to the next class at the beginning of the year.  He is ready and willing to go see his friends Bella and Colin.

Nick is having fun in school (except for homework) and enjoyed soccer.  His soccer ended this weekend so that is a nice break for coach.  He did great, scored a lot and loved to stop the other team on defense.  When he was on the field the team was lucky to get any goals and nothing more than 1 that I can remember.

There was a school festival at Nick's school.  We got the boys wristbands and they played for 4hrs solid until they shut the place down.  Even more impressive was the dust storm that occurred, we could barely keep our eyes open but they could keep playing.

I have plenty of pictures and videos I have to get ready.  Will get right on them, I promise.