Isaac woke up of course.
I bought these on sale a long time ago, I think I had planned on doing a craft with babysitting kids, the church youth, or a Sunday School class. For once I'm not teaching the youth at church. I miss them though.
Dylan picked me lots of flowers.
They ate lunch outside.
After lunch, we went in to make cookies. They each made a batch. We had one of sugar cookies and one of gingerbread cookies. They really helped. Dylan cracked the egg into the bowl before I gave him the okay. Most of it went in the bowl and only one piece of shell landed inside. He's good at paying attention.
Then it was time for the older two to take a nap. They both went right to sleep while visions of sugar cookies danced in their heads. 
The cookies magically cooked and cooled before they woke up. I heard Malia singing "Jingle Bells" on the baby monitor and we went up to get her and Dylan. The babies were excited that I took the gate down from the stairs.
Unfortunately Dylan was wet when he woke up. He needed a bath. Before I knew it, Malia was in there too. So we had a pool party in the tub.
Noah is a little bully. There was no escaping him in that confined space. Dylan was complaining that he was pulling his hair. He pins Isaac all the time. He had ahold of Isaac's cheek earlier. There may be nail marks in Isaac's cheek still. He had Isaac even though I had put Noah up in the stationary jumpy chair because he kept stealing each toy that Isaac was holding. I thought I had crazy kids before, he's so full of fun and craziness.
We should have had bath time after this mess, but oh well. Only Malia's cheeks got messy I think. They did a great job decorating cookies for their daddys.
Malia was double double dipping - two spreaders at a time.
I asked him to bend down and put his face by the cookies. He did:) We were able to give a plate of cookies to our carolers. Good thing we made them!
Dylan was a helper all day. He really wanted to help with the laundry, so he loaded it all by himself.
Noah is a little bully. There was no escaping him in that confined space. Dylan was complaining that he was pulling his hair. He pins Isaac all the time. He had ahold of Isaac's cheek earlier. There may be nail marks in Isaac's cheek still. He had Isaac even though I had put Noah up in the stationary jumpy chair because he kept stealing each toy that Isaac was holding. I thought I had crazy kids before, he's so full of fun and craziness.
We should have had bath time after this mess, but oh well. Only Malia's cheeks got messy I think. They did a great job decorating cookies for their daddys.
Malia was double double dipping - two spreaders at a time.
I asked him to bend down and put his face by the cookies. He did:) We were able to give a plate of cookies to our carolers. Good thing we made them!Dylan was a helper all day. He really wanted to help with the laundry, so he loaded it all by himself. 
We made sticker nativities last week after the lesson. (My grandma made the table cloth, are you jealous?!)
This week, we had the Christmas lesson. We played with nativities and they dressed up in character. These kids LOVE acting out the scenarios in the lessons. They're really good at it. We also cut snowflakes b/c I can always find a way to incorporate an object lesson with snow flakes because I LOVE them. 
This was their breakfast. We poured juice into the trays the night before and Dylan remembered. I gave Isaac one too. I think it's cute.
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The half time show was fun, so we stayed in our seats for that. We also liked watching the cheer leaders do back flips for each of our points. My brother would be jealous, not of watching the cheer leaders, but of them. He wants to do a back flip in place like that and has been practicing for a while. He'll get it. Maybe he should be a cheer leader. Too bad he doesn't read this, (
We left a little early since we were so far ahead in the game. I strapped Isaac to myself but Jake asked to hold him. Then he asked for the sling. It's a little big on him, but it worked. 
I think Jake's back must have been killing him by now. See the "Tropicana Field" in the background? The game was on the Rays' field. We felt right at home there.
Happy Birthday Jake, we love you! Did you ever finnish your crossword birthday card we made you?
He said "Mom, you take a pic-too of me and the moo-maid?" Of course I'll take pictures of him with the "mermaid." 
We inched up close to Santa. Dylan didn't even give him a high five this time. I finally consented to getting in the picture since we had gotten out of the car and were the only family out there at the time. Isaac was NOT happy that Santa stood up for the picture. 
Isaac LOVED the play area. He was climbing, sliding, walking, and tripping. He went up to lots of people and reached for their drinks. (He knows what a straw is and thinks everybody should share!) 
Dylan and Malia's class went first. I snuck up next to the front row for some pictures.
And here's the St. Pete Pride. They did the same dance/twirling in a parade in Key West. There's one pretty funny memorable guy in the front. 
Funny faces
They ran around the Christmas tree.
My favorite pic of the day:
Running to the mailbox to send his letter to Santa. (Prev post)
Steven's showing Dylan how much fun the other kids are having sledding on the (quickly melting) snow. He's promising him it won't be like Stanley Falls at Busch Gardens. 
Maybe this guy's name was Dylan too. He looked right at the camera. 
Weeee!
He loved the toddler one so . . . 
We took him to the big ride. I waited in line with him planning on having him sit on my lap. But then I asked if he wanted to go by himself and he did!
He and 2Dylan did it again because there was hardly any line.
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