Christmas was loads of fun at our house and thankfully both boys handled the overload very well. We were joined by my parents who visited from NC, and were thankful to have our Daddy feeling pretty good for the celebrating.
Our family opens gifts under the tree on Christmas Eve and then Santa comes in the morning. It works well for us this way, not overloading it all in one day. We spend all of Christmas Day just being together and playing, it’s wonderful.
Since Tot School obviously did not occur, in an official way, I thought I would share some of Krash’s cool new Tot School gifts!
This year I loaded all of Krash’s gift books into one big box, he was excited to open it and find all of these in there! His favorite was definitely Gallop. But he also liked the others he got: Bright Baby Animals, Busy Baby: First 100 Things That Go, Touchy Feely: Wacky Wild Animals, I Love You Through And Through, and a few more!
He got a few more Cars (from the movie) to add to his collection, which he always uses to learn in creative ways! Here he’s driving them on his new Melissa and Doug Magnetic Chalk/Dry Erase Board…
He made a road out of his new Play Doh cans and drove the cars on it!
Then he stacked the Play Doh cans and balanced the cars on top! He didn’t have nearly as much fun with the Play Doh when it was actually opened!!!
The boys got a new Foam Alphabet Puzzle Mat which has already been set up and enjoyed!
They got many *together* gifts this year, it was neat watching them share the joy over things they both liked!
Pac-Man used his own money to buy Krash a present this year…K loves his new bulldozer!
We found these great Mega Bloks Cars Buildable Street Racers at Ross (the discount store) for about $12, on Amazon they are listed over 65$ right now! I am glad we got them when we did!!!
Santa brought him the Tonka Bounce Back Racer, it’s awesome!!!
He also got this awesome wooden alphabet puzzle from Ross, for about $10. I love how each letter has it’s own parts so we can work on just a few at a time. He is very into puzzles now so he really liked it!
I’m sure your tots got some cool new Tot School toys too!!!! Care to share??? Either link up a post below like normal or list a few favorites in the comments section! These will be great posts to refer back to in the coming year when shopping for birthdays or spending gift cards!!!!
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and sit on them…
Then we went on to hammering bean bag letters, or as we call it, “Bean Bag Monster” Baba had to learn the rules so he could be the monster!
K has his first chore…to feed our big dog Bower! He LOVES to do it and does a pretty good job!!!
K still loves to cut, especially using his special 
He worked on his 
and learned to play the 
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His collection of die cast 
We had some major house renovation work done this weekend by some of our friends from NC (where we moved from) who wanted to do something to help us out during this time. They came up and finished 4 HUGE projects that were hanging over our heads. We live in a 100 year old home, that needed tons of work when we moved in, it is always a project, but we love it. 
Daddy’s prayer map is complete! We heard from over 175 people between both blogs and hit almost every state and many countries! it was really exciting to watch the comments come in and to know that prayers have been lifted up for our Daddy and family!!!! Here Pac-Man is showing the printed copy to his Daddy for the first time, Daddy was amazed!!!
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which includes one of our favorite ABC puzzles, and a bunch of other cool tot items!
a BIG hit in our house, not just with Krash but also with my 6 year old!!! 
We got this for Krash this year along with more magnets (dinosaurs and farm) from Ross-the discount store!!!
This is also under the tree for K-we gotta work on those lower case letters! 
(if you don’t have this, get it for your tot for Christmas!!!), the one about having an animal on your head, and changed it to “K’s got an F on his knee, K’s got an A on his head…” He thought this was hilarious!!!
He continues to do well with the potty training! 
He got to spend some time with his good buddy before we left NC, they had lots of great moments like this…
And then a couple like this…
He went on a few field trips, to Chuck E Cheese, 
And 
Then, FINALLY on Friday he was reunited with his beloved Daddy!!!!!!
He got a brand new big boy bed…
With stairs and all! (Pac-Man is on the bottom, Krash on the top)
