Christmas Day (December 2008)

It all started on Christmas morning, a very early Christmas morning. Sean came running into our room asking if Santa had come. When we came down to look, that is when the madness began. Here is our tree before the boys were allowed to touch anything.
Sean in front of his "loot".

Dean walking by his "loot".

Can you tell that Sean was VERY happy?

I didn't think Sean could ever stop smiling that morning.

YEAH!!!! Dean was so happy that he was clapping his hands.

Dean really loved to unwrap the gifts.

The aftermath of the tornado.

Dean was so tired after all of that excitement that he ended up falling asleep in the cushions of the couch.

Christmas Eve (December 2008)

Every year on Christmas Eve, my Mother-In-Law has a Christmas party. This year it was Nancy (Paul's Mother), Paul and our family, Steve (Paul's brother) and his wife Chmone, Steve's 3 children and all of their children, Johnna (Paul's sister) and her family, Jamie and Johnathan (her fiance), and Jasmine. The grandchildren and great-grand children had a blast! I hope everyone enjoys the expressions on Sean and Dean's face.

The Hess truck.

Dean was REALLY happy with the wrapping paper.

Sean and Dean (with the help of me) ended up having a huge wrapping paper fight. They had so much fun. The good thing was that they did help me clean it up.

This is the remote controlled snake that Sean received from Grandma Ashley. The only problem was, the minute we got home Dean kept wanting to play with it.

The Blogging Slacker

Alright, I'm really sorry about being a slacker when it comes to blogging. I'm going to post a whole bunch of things. These posts are not very long to read, I just really wanted to get the pictures out there since I have had people asking for them. I promise I will start being a better blogger now. The real problem was that our computer took FOREVER to get the pictures pulled up and I really didn't enjoy waiting for it. Last week we got a new computer which I love. YEAH!!!! It now doesn't take 5 minutes just to pull up the program to even look at the pictures. I hope everyone likes them.

Face Painting

The first Saturday of every month, Home Depot has a workshop for kids. Sean started going there when he was 2 years old. He loves them. This month they had face painting when we got there. I didn't think Dean would do it but after Sean sat down on the chair and got his face painted, Dean jumped up on the chair and turned so that the lady could paint something on his face too. When we got home we took these cute pictures.

MOSH

I took the boys to the Museum of Science and History. Sean really enjoyed being able to stand in the mouth. Dean had fun pressing this "stomach" and making it burb.

Here, fishy. fishy, fishy..Oh good, Dean found one blue one.

They really enjoyed the Florida Naturalist's Center. They were able to see all kinds of animals that are native to Florida. We were looking at the baby alligators (GO GATORS!) that also had 2 turtles in their tank when they started feeding them. We got to watch them eat the crickets and worms. We were also able to see snakes, owls, frogs, lizards, and other turtles.

Look, Sean is controlling a dinosaur!

DINO-ROAR was on exhbit. It took a long time to get Dean close enough to a dinosaur exhibit for me to get him into a picture. He just wasn't to sure of them. After he got over being scared, all he wanted to do was wave to them.

Here is Dean waving at the dinosaur that is in back of Sean.

I finally got him to sit down but he did NOT trust the dinosaurs to turn his back on them so I could not get a picture of him smiling.

Yeah, I got him to sit down and face me but I still couldn't get him to smile. Now he is smiling. Of course, there are NO dinosaurs at all here.

Chuck E. Cheese's

Yes, our first visit to Chuck E. Cheese's. Sean had been wanting to go there for about 6 months and we finally went. He didn't know we were going and we just showed up and went into the store and Sean looked very confused. He didn't know what was going on. I asked him if he knew where we were and he just smiled really, really big. He was so excited once he had seen the sign.

Mmmmm, pizza and soda...

Paul put the token into the game and Sean wasn't sure what to do so then I decided to "TRY" it out. My excuse was that I was holding a purse and a camera case and that is why I wasn't able to do it as well as I could have.

Dean kept watching Chuck the entire time that he played. It was really hard for me to get them to turn at the same time to take a picture.

Sean loved putting out the fires with the firehose in this game. Even Paul played it.

Look at his face, he was having so much fun!

Sean really wanted to win against Paul and Dean in this game. Look how hard he was concentrating.

The "REAL" Chuck E. Cheese.

We could not get Dean to get off of this ride. He rode it 7 times in a row and then he also rode it again 3 more times before we left.