Wait! What just happened? It's 2013!

So the holidays have come and gone and celebrating C's first Christmas was so much fun. He really enjoyed hanging out with everyone until he puked. Yeah, I forgot to mention that Christmas was almost ruined thanks to the parents of a little girl at Daycare. They thought it would be a good idea to watch their older son in the Christmas play do his thing while his poor little sister vomited on everyone else, ruining Christmas for a lot of other families. (I have to blame someone). So B got the stomach bug and was over it by mid day Christmas Eve and then on schedule, C vomited Christmas Eve. I am just thankful that both kids only puked once and felt fine after that.

C had fun trying to open gifts, but really just loved the wrapping paper. B was so excited to see that Santa brought him an indoor trampoline and a dinosaur. He is finally realizing the magic of Christmas and it is so much fun to watch his imagination just take off. This year was our first year doing Elf on the shelf and we had a lot of fun with that as well.

C has had an exponential growth spurt lately, not only physically but intelluctually as well. He can now walk with a walker and climb over just about everything. He constantly babbles, he got two new teeth (left bottom and left top), and he is into everything! He is such a little explorer. C is perfectly contant being alone and exploring his world (the opposite  of B). B always wanted to play with us at that age. Unfortunately, with all this brain growth, he is having a hard time "shutting it down" at night and is waking up for hours in the middle of the night, ready to play.

B is really starting to show his protectiveness over his baby brother. The other day C fell over and the walker fell on top of him, hurting him. B got up  and said "poor baby" and grabbed the walker and through it across the room. Then went over and hit it while saying "bad walker, you don't hurt my baby brother". While initially Mike and I were stunned disturbed over such violent behavior we also thought it was quite sweet.