Baby, It's Cold Outside

However we still enjoy going outside to play. Owen has always been great about wearing the winter gear, but Aiden has fought it. But I think it has finally clicked and he will now wear the hat and gloves. I am happy that our yard gets some sun in the morning to help keep us warm. This morning tehy had fun playing their dump trucks again, swinging and sliding, sandbox and hopscotch. Owen has learned hopscotch at school and requested to draw one. It was cute to watch him play and then watch Aiden try to follow.

Aiden absolutely loves to push around his dump truck

Owen Playing Hopscotch

Counting the Numbered Squares
Aiden Hopscotching (and yes different hat, he has decided he will only where the "McQueen" hat even though it is too big)

Sliding Together

I am super sad that my phone camera didn't capture this fully, because the boys were so adorable. But here they are anyways. The boys love to slide down into the ball pit, but today they decided to go down together. Owen would wait for Aiden to climb on his lap and then down they went with some of the biggest smiles and laughs that I have seen. It was so adorable!

Lil Undies

Just in case he wanted to take the plunge I bought some 2t undies for Aiden. Well the past couple weeks, Aiden has gone on the potty about 3-5 times a day. Sometimes he will even tell me he needs to go and what do you know he actually pees. But I just don't think he quites gets it completely and not ready to deal with the poopy undies, so we will go full force soon. Just keeping it fun right now. This evening after he went pee he only had about 45 minutes before bath so I tried the undies on him. He was so happy and kept checking them out. On top of it, he went potty twice on his own and stayed dry. Hmmm, maybe I should start this now.

Lil Undie Boy

Checking the Out - "McQueen"

Itty Bitty Butt

Christmas Tree Adventure

We wanted to do something different this year and decided to go to Ticonderoga Farms for their festival and to cut down our tree. It was such a wonderful time and definitely will be returning next year.

Boys Found Frosty

We were hoping that this would also be our Santa visit but sadly the Santa was not all that ideal and the Owen was pretty shy about it. First year this has happened.
Owen quietly told Santa what he wanted.

Candy Canes won them over.

Boys with Santa

Owen loved the real teepee

Even with Owen coaxing him, Aiden did not want to come in.

We had fun sitting on the hay

Owen Chasing a Chicken

Aiden with Big Goat

Owen Feeding Goats

Aiden Feeding Goats

Owen Feeding the Big Goat

Aiden Feeding Big Goat

Three Baby Goats

Feeding Baby Goats

Aiden actually wearing a hat and gloves, he hates it!

Owen and Aiden playing with chickens

Owen on top of the fort

He Loved Being up There

It took 4.5 years, but Owen went down the huge slides by himself and LOVED it

Aiden went right down...

and twisted

Turned

And ended up backwards and kept going back for more

I got to have fun going down too

Big Sliding Smiles

Big Owen Smiles

Owen on top of the Hay Fort

Boys at the Farm

Then we climbed on the hay ride and got dropped out with a saw to cut down our tree. I saw the one I wanted from the wagon and fell in love with it. Omer cut the tree down with a hand saw

The boys played

Then I took the boys for a walk.

They enjoyed walking through the hay

Tree Cut! Omer Tired!

Back on the wagon with our tree

Owen was helpful with putting on the lights

Was very excited to hang a couple ornaments and then decided to go play with Aiden who could have cared less about decorating

Owen talked a lot about putting the star on top.

Our Christmas Tree

Christmas Card Shoot

After our photo "shoot" for our Christmas card the boys had fun hanging out in their pjs and taking pictures. Yes, we went the super corny route and did holiday pjs for our card.