Our Three Blessings

In the afternoon on Christmas Day we went to Eric's Parent's house for lunch and to exchange gifts. The babies had fun playing with their cousins and of course playing with the boxes from the gifts.

Christmas morning the babies woke up early excited that Santa came. Actually, they woke up at their normal early time 6:30am. They had fun playing with their new toys from Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle Scott, and Aunt Sherry in the morning before getting even more toys from us and finishing opening the rest of the gifts from Grandma & Grandpa. They definitely have enough toys now. We had to reorganize the sitting room where we have them most of the time so all the new toys would fit. Missy was definitely excited for her new toy from Great Grandma. She was carrying it all over and Ethan was trying to get it.

Christmas eve we went to my parents and the babies had their first experience with opening presents. They had fun playing with the toys once they were out of the packages, but they didn't quite get pulling at the paper to open the packages.

Ethan, Leah, & Logan

We've been reading The Night Before Christmas for a while now, when is Santa going to get here? Missy, Leah, Ethan, & Logan

The babies have graduated from their infant carriers to backwards facing booster seats. Great timing, it's cold out now and I feel bad having to drag them outside. It was nice when we could bundle them all up in their seats in the house and just plunk them into the car. I like the seats we purchased. After a bit of looking around we went with the Radian 80 seats, gray for the boys and pink flowers for Leah. They work backward facing up to 40 lbs and forward facing up to 80 lbs. I'm not sure where a 40 lb kid's legs are supposed to go backward facing, but we'll see. They are narrower than most seats (they don't have armrests or cup holders) and fit three across. Lucky Eric is still able to fit the 3 babies in the back of the sable. He's been shopping for a new car (Mustang) for several years now but the Sable still runs great and has 94K miles on it (and it's paid off). So far there haven't been any complaints about the new seats and they fall asleep just...

Ethan has started pulling up on everything. I don't think pulling up quite describes it, if there is a toy on the floor he will try and use it to stand up. He isn't even limited to toys, if there is anything on the floor he will push up on it. The other day I was taking a few pictures (seeing if I could be lazy for their 10 month pictures) and Ethan was pushing up on Logan. Logan eventually did a face plant under Ethan's weight. So the other day Logan got him back. Ethan pulled up on the exersaucer Logan was in. Logan pushed Ethan's hands off the toy causing Ethan to go face first into the exersaucer. I'm sure these won't be the first scrapes Ethan gets because of Logan.