Xmas afterthoughts

It's hard to believe so many days had past before i realized that i hadn't been writing anything down. I guess with all the house painting and xmas madness and 2 kids, time just flew by.

Brandan and Lexi were over joy'd with Christmas, they both got a lot of gifts and they keep coming from the late arrival shipping. Brandan really wanted star war stuff and for a long time he was thinking that he would get 1 gift. And i should probably have kept that idea for him and add a surprise gift.  Now he's got 20 something new toys, he doesn't even know what to do with them. He was very happy, but after a few minutes he moved on to play with one thing, the light saber from star wars.  Lexi wasn't really sure what's going on, but once she saw that Brandan opens the paper and gets a gift, she started to open gifts too. But i had to open some for her, because she stops to play whatever she opens. Their reactions make me feel that they really didn't need all those toys, they would have been happy with fewer things.

The funny thing is that Brandan didn't want to go see Santa until the day before xmas. When we got to the mall, and approached Santa, he was standing there and waiting for Tony to get Lexi settled in. So Santa asked him what he wanted for xmas, and all he said was "a gun". Not sure what to say, Santa looked at Tony in the instance. Tony had to quickly say a "Star War" gun.  Then Santa was very relieved and said yes. Lexi didn't know what to say yet but she was happy to just have a candy cane in her hand. We were able to get a few good pictures of both kids sitting on Santa's lap.

Christmas morning, he didn't even want to come down stairs to check to see if Santa left anything under the tree, he told Tony that he didn't hear Santa nor the reindeer's and he didn't thing there would be any presents under the tree. When he finally came down and saw all the gifts, he tried his very best to hold the smile in. It was so cute, but i couldn't catch it on camera because he had decided to put his hood on. 

He is turning into such a big boy, he remembers things so well. Today was the first time that he had a full conversation with Tony about something happened yesterday.  Sometimes he even talk like an adult. We went to the store to buy some chocolate milk yesterday and he told Tony today that he had bought the c-milk for him and he wanted Tony to share. When Tony asked him to share with who, at first, he answered with each person's name, and then he just said "us" with his finger making a circle of family at the dinner table, it was so cute. Tony said what if he didn't want to share, then Brandan said Tony would have to go time out for not sharing.  

Lexi got more baby dolls, just what she needs, she has 20+ dolls now, and she is only 2. If i have to think back to all the toys i had, i only had about 5 dolls in my whole life. She loves each of those dolls dearly though, she changes their diapers, and take them to the bathroom and feed them and wrap them in the blankets and stuff. Like a real mommy, i guess it's all nature for her.  I am so glad that i have a little girl, so i get to play with all the cool dolls and do dress ups too.