Two

We received these two piggy banks during the summer from our friend Dick and had put them up until Fall. I forgot about them till the other day, when asked what happened to
them I had to think where I had safely put them.

The one with the mostly blue face is Tyler's and the multi-colored pig is Will's.

Christmas Cards

The boys got Christmas cards from their Granny and from a family friend. Tyler was happy to let Dad open the cards and read them to him. Will wanted to do everything himself. He even cleaned up the seasonal confetti that was in one of the cards that he spilt everywhere opening the card.
They liked their cards, but lost interest quickly.

A word on the matching clothes a friend of ours at church has twins that are 4 years old and so we recently got a large collection of clothes with many matching outfits (pants and shirts). The boys love to where the same clothes for now and I know it won't last.

Almost wordless Wednesday

The boys are eating chex's mix cocoa edition for the first time with dad. This was their after dinner treat.

Books from Sami!

We came home from church last Wednesday to find a box by our garage door. The box was from Cousin Sami. She had written the boys a note that she was sending a few of her favorite Christmas books and hoped they enjoyed them. They really have liked them these pictures are from the night we received the books, Dad read two books downstairs. The boys then each picked a book to take upstairs to their room. They have read the Clifford book almost every night.

Thank you Sami and Gwyn for sending the books the boys will enjoy the books for several years.

Someone has a birthday

The preschool department at church presented a musical play at church last
Sunday Morning. They boys were both sheep along with the rest of the 2 year olds.
They had moved around a lot in the practices we had had over the last month.
They stayed still for a few minutes and then became the wandering sheep. Happily
several people have told m they enjoyed watching the boys. The adult sitting with them
is one of their Sunday School teacher who has twin daughters. One daughter of hers
has 4 year old triplets (2 girls and a boy) and a 2 year old son. One of the other daugther
has twin boys that just turned 4 at the end of November. The boys had fun.

Santa part 2

Tyler was first to climb onto Santa's lap. After Will was told Santa would only give him a
candy cane if he sat on his lap he climbed up on his lap. Then turned and held his hand out
for the candy cane. The second picture was as close to smiling they got during their visit with Santa at our church. To be fair the boys have been sick the last two weeks and probably would rather have been playing at home.

Santa at Church part 1

Last year Tyler was eager to sit on Santa's lap. This year he was not so sure. Krista was trying to encourage him to sit on Santa's lap. Will decided to check it out. Then he decided he didn't want to sit on Santa's lap, but Tyler decided to climb up after a couple of minutes.

Trains!

Their is a nice train museum near us, so we went with Grandma and Grandpa Ohio.
Grandpa loves trains and David likes them too. The boys had a lot of fun sitting in the
Engine and then we rode on a train with two cabooses. The Picture of both boys is in a
child sized train the museum bought from a zoo. They have plans to have the train working in the next year and a half. It was a fun, cold but sunny day. This was our activity for the day after Thanksgiving.

Twice as nice

Having two cars for the boys to play with is definitely better then one car. Thanks to grandparents we now have a second car for the boys to drive around. This should lessen the disagreements over who can ride in the car.