christmas baking day

It was fun baking with the kids this year, Tyler is still a little young to be doing the pretzels maybe. He would put one on the baking sheet and then put the fork in his mouth and we said tyler you cant do that, Then he said "Im just tasting it". So tylers pretzels ended up going in a seperate bowl for the kids ..not to give away.
It was a good day as we listened to christmas music and made goodies. We just had to skip the song "I'll be home for chistmas" .It makes us sad , especially this time of year we miss being with all the family in MN and now the innises too....Even alicia said the other day i wish that all our family could be next to nema and tepa and my cousins and that havanna could come too. So as beautiful as that christmas song is we have to keep skipping it in our house and in the car this christmas. Oh but that freezing cold weather in MN right now ....hmmm maybe we should reverse alicias thoughts and you should all come here to sunny sydney.




Our cute little helpersTwo pig tails Eliza just sat in her chair watching and eating the pretzels and pulling funny faces.Toothless Lecy and some of the goodiesIt was all just too much for our Tyler Bear

It's beginning to look alot like christmas

I love christmas with littlle kids. Every night I ask alicia what number are we up too, how long til santa comes on her countdown to christmas bed spread. Now that we are on the 10th she is getting more excited. Tyler doesnt really get it, he just likes that a pic of santa is on his bed. Eliza well she just loves everything that falls off the christmas tree , we have had to pull out tinsel, bells and hooks out of her mouth. All this with the christmas tree on top of the coffee table so she cant get to it.
It's all alot of fun.
It looks like Eliza just wants to get away from her crazy brother and sister back in the safety of her own room.

Alicias TOOTHLESS

Alicia lost her first tooth on monday while she was jumping up and down having a tantrum. So if any of your kids have a loose tooth that just won't come out ...make them have a tantrum..apparently it works. Only we kind of lost the tooth for a while ...but then dad found it.
We can't believe our little alicia lost her first tooth already. She was so excited to use the tooth pillow aunt sarah made for her and then she took it to preschool the next day for news.