Christmas Cookies and Santa's Visit

A few weeks ago, Caleb and I made Christmas cookies together. His favorite part was pressing the cookie cutters into the dough and eating the icing. He wasn't wild about spreading the icing on the cookies, but we had a great time none-the-less. :) I really enjoyed this time to spend one-on-one with my big boy while Kevin got to cuddle with Noah.

We also took the boys to see Santa a couple weeks ago. I wanted a picture of just them with Santa, but as you can see it didn't work out that way. Despite all of our efforts at talking Santa up and reading lots of Santa stories, Caleb was still frightened by the jolly old elf. By the time we took this picture, he had stopped crying...he just has a blank stare for a face. He still loves to talk about Santa, though. Oh well...maybe next year we will capture the joy and love that Santa brings, but by then Noah will probably be terrified.

**Okay, well my scanner isn't working so just picture our family with Santa in your head... :)

This Christmas has already been so much fun it makes us so excited for the rest of this year's festivities. More Christmas pictures to come...