Grandma made us her famous Goolosh and Grandpa helped feed the ever moving Ty.
Grandma was having fun entertaining the boys with books and board games and all sorts of funs stuff.
Ty was watching a movie and Grandpa came in, held out his pinky, and rocked him back and forth. It was so sweet. Ty and Grandpa Great are good buddies.

Bode is progressing quite a bit slower than Ty did, but you won't hear me complaining. Once Ty was mobile, he was everywhere and in everything. I'm just buying my time with Bode, hoping that he's not as curious as Ty. Bode is now army-crawling everywhere. I think he's going to skip crawling altogether. I know he can do it, he just chooses to use his arm strength rather than his legs. He now has 2 teeth on the bottom. He shakes his head yes (along with his eyebrows). He loves to watch cartoons in the morning with his brother. He is officially a big boy, refusing his mommies nectar and preferring to drink from a sippy and eat everything he can. He is an easy-going baby, and we'll do just about anything to make him laugh and smile.

Matt had about a 3 week break from school so he and Ty had lots of time to play. On one of the days that snowed, they dressed in their snow gear and spent about 2 hours outside making a snowman. Ty was in heaven!

 It was too cold outside so I took these pictures through the window
 I jumped in the shower while they played outside. In the middle of my nice warm shower, I heard someone knocking on the front door several times. I figured it was Ty or Matt, so I got out my warm shower and put a towel on as I ran through the house dripping wet. It was Matt. He needed a bowl to pack the snow in so they could have a perfectly round snowman. Did I mention that Matt is not a perfectionist AT ALL!? He thought he was pretty funny making me get out of the shower just for a bowl. I wasn't so amused.

This Christmas morning was very relaxing. We didn't have any breakfast appointments or get-together's to run off to. We just enjoyed our time watching the boys unravel their Christmas treasures.

...and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even my SPOUSE! But little Ty was too excited to go to bed right away. So we read this book and watched the cute movie that went along with it. We drank Candy cane Hot Chocolate, set out cookies and milk for Santa...

 One of the days when Ty and Eli were being particularly out-of-control, my mom jokingly threatened to put the boys in straight jackets and tape their mouths. Well instead of scaring them into good behavior, they decided that straight jackets was the better option. Boys will be boys!