Merry Christmas!

Mmmm

Your right mummy, This Yuengling is pretty good!

Protector

Chippy, out elf, watching over our ginger bread house. Our elf used to be Harry, but he was renamed after the tv show elf!

Letters to Santa.

We mailed our letters to Santa last week!

And this week we received one in return! The boys were so excited :)

Santa.

Here are the photos of Harrison and Allister visiting Santa. 

Allister was not amused, and was happy to get off from Santas knee! Harrison was nervouse, like he was meeting someone super-duper famous. Well of course he was!

He did manage to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas too!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Santa baby.

We went to visit Santa at Daddy Matt's work Christmas party. 

We had a lot of fun. The boys got to tell Santa what they want for Christmas and we are hoping for a good Christmas photo. But we will have to wait and see!

Here are the boys looking so adorable waiting in line for Santa. 

And this has to be the cutest photo ever of the boys!

They are truly at the best ages right now and we are having so much fun. 

Harrison seems to be past his terrible two's (threes?) and has reached a whole new level of maturity. 

He is 90% fun fun fun. He asks questions 24/7 (more in another post!) and has such an understanding. He seems so intelligent for his  young years, I'm sure every parent feels like this if their little 3 1/2 year old. He learns so much every day! And Allister is at that cute cute age, he talks non stop just like his big brother. And they play together now so sweetly. You'll hear Harrison ask Allister "so are you the good guy  or the bad guy?" and Allister will answer in his adorable toddler voice. "bad guy!". Then they will sword fight, or chase each other. I giggle to myself 100 times a day watching them interact. 

Harrison and Allister both sat on Santa's knee this year, and there were no tears! We hope for a pretty good photos, Allister looked sheepish and unsure, but he did sit there and look at the camera. I'm. It sure we got a smile, but we will find out when we get the picture!

Harrison told Santa he wanted a pirate ship and some star wars toys. 

And presents and prizes!

Harrison will tell you he wants something different every day you ask him. A Darth Vadar  mask was top of his list for a while! But as Santa is all done with his shopping now he better not change his mind!

This is Harrison telling Santa what he wants. 

Harrison working at daddy's desk. 

Christmas face paints!

All in all we had a fun morning! And we have our tree up now too, it's starting to look a lot like Christmas :)

An announcement.

Harrison's was on the couch, watching a movie. And he announced out of nowhere...

"I want a girlfriend!"

Omgosh.

Claire

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10 surprising things about NYC.

We're in NYC right now for our 5 year wedding anniversary. More on that later, right, now just this.

1. I love NYC and I feel at home there.......but...
2. I am allergic to NYC  cabs and can't ride in one without needed to throw up. They make me so nauseous!  Urgh. 
3. I'm also allergic to NYC air, allergies are crazy here. 
4. My hair Is also doesn't like NYC and is a frizzy, static-ee mess. 
5. I've realized that even though I love NYC It doesn't agree with most of me!
6. I miss the availability of good multi-cultural food. 
7. It's huge. Like humongous huge. 
8. Every second person is from England. No exaggeration. Like half the people are from England. 
9. There is a lot of money in NYC. 
10. There is a hot dog stand on every corner. And I mean  EVERY corner. And they don't just sell hotdogs. 

Bedtime.

Allister is not the great sleeper Harrison was. He's not a bad sleeper, just not great. And I'm a softie so I give in too easy and so it's mostly my own fault!

Allister has a tendency to fall asleep on the floor, behind the door, or basically anywhere but his bed. 

He loves to snuggle with a soft toy! It's so adorable, he has had this little zebra since he was born, he also likes his Pooh Bear and many other soft toys. 

Here he is snuggling Rex looking oh. So. Adorable. 

And sharing his bed with Harrison.

Note the super cute pirate outfit that was Harrison's when he was this age.