RockinRRanch

Adam being goofy.

Jacob's made snowplows with his blocks.

I'm glad we have two John Deere books. The boys love these books.

The boys wearing their "construction hats".

Another "hay ride".

In their "house".

A GREAT dog!

Jacob came into the bedroom around 8am. First thing he said was, “I wanna go to Nana’s house”. I told him we’d be going there in a couple days to celebrate Christmas. He whined, “But I miss her”. Adam woke up around the same time. After we ate breakfast the boys ran to rip off a piece from their paper chains. After throwing their pieces in the trash we always go back and count how many days until Christmas (Eve). Adam always runs to his chain and points at the first piece. Then I hold his hand and help him as we count. But this morning he didn't need my help and did it on his own. He was excited and said, “Da (again)!” We got out the Little People toys, barn and car wash to play with. Then Adam put the stethoscope around his neck, came over to me and said, “doctor”. Then he put the chestpiece on my shirt and said, “Boom boom, boom boom”. He really likes all the pieces from the doctor kit. His favorite pieces are the thermometer, mouth mirror, and the tweezers. He walked around holding them three pieces a lot today. He likes to get “slivers” out of my finger and stick the mirror in my mouth (with my help, otherwise he pushes it back to far). I wrote on the back of my pictures while watching Clifford with the boys. We also watched some of Sesame Street, until Jacob turned off the TV saying, “We’ve watched enough movies”. I gave them a couple gift bags and they had fun filling them with blocks. Jacob played on the piano. Adam had fun playing with the Stars pom pom. He’d put it on his head and then “sneeze” it off. Jacob built snowplows from the blocks and we played with them. After lunch Jacob built a “house” under the counter with the stools. The boys wore baseball hats and pretended they were construction workers. Jacob asked if I wanted to come in the house with them. Then he said that he was going to be a “Postmaster" and was going to deliver my mail. He "drove" to the "post office" to pick up the mail and then put it in my "mailbox". Adam and I would then go out and get the mail from the box. Around 2pm we had snack time. Then we read some books and sang some songs. I tucked Adam down for a nap. Jacob wanted to pat his belly with me. Then he kept poking him on the cheek or nose, making Adam laugh hard. It was too funny. Because he was settling down for his nap, I told Jacob “one more time”. After he did it once more, Adam laughed and said, “Da (again)!” Jacob said, “No Adam, Mommy said no more”. Jacob picked out some books for me to read to him. Then we played with the Mr. Potato heads. We took the Potato heads to “Olies (Fazoli’s)”. Jacob set a pillow by the couch and they rode the “elevator” up to the restaurant (couch). Jacob continued playing with them while he rested. Then we got out playdoh. Daddy came home around 5pm and Adam woke up soon after that. This evening we went to Fazoli’s for dinner. Traffic sure was busy and moving slowly. During dinner Adam wanted a drink of my lemonade. I asked him to say lemonade, so he smiled and said, “mem-ma-nade”. On the way home I went into meijer for a couple things. Daddy took the boys to the dealership to look for “broken cars”. We got home around 8pm. We had a little playtime before starting bedtime routines. While I was reading a book to Adam he pointed at the sun and said, “sunshine”. He also pointed at the hippopotamus and said, “pippo (hippo)”.