Christmas Snow

What a magical surprise to wake up Christmas Eve morning to find a beautiful blanket of white snow! We really enjoyed playing in it, and it was Wyatt's first time out in the snow. I bundled him up up with slick pants and a size-too-big coat over his footie pajamas so he would stay warm and dry, and let him ride around in the sled and watch the boys help scoop the driveway. He seemed puzzled and confused at first, but by the end of his sled rid he was making some happy noises, and when Clayton stopped (it was hard to pull!) He grunted and leaned forward, as if to say "lets go!" This mommy's heart is so full!

Making a Snow Angel

Mommy pulling him in the sled

Clayton trying to pull, it was hard!

Taste-testing the snow

They are perfect!

Christmas Break Fun

We started off our Christmas break with a fun day at home with Aunt Amy who came to visit us on Monday. It's great to have a fun aunt to play pretend "toy delivery" with you! They fed reindeer and made and delivered toys for a long time!

We also decorated cookies together, and got to spend some time reading and doing puzzles. What a great day!

Some beautiful cookies! 

On Wednesday the boys got to make peanut butter star cookies with daddy. And their cousin Knox (Daddy's cousin, Leslie's youngest son) spent the morning with us so he got to help too. Another fun day!!

Watching the dough mix

Watching the dough mix

Rolling the balls of dough in sugar

Rolling the balls of dough in sugar

Wyatt and Mommy supervised!

Finished Product!

Visit to Santa!

We took the boys to see Santa today at JK's Pumpkin patch. We did it last year too - I sure hope they continue, it's a fun little tradition!

Reese was pretty apprehensive about the whole thing. I had to sit next to Santa to get him to cooperate with the picture taking. I was also pretty disappointed in Wyatt's lack of reaction to Santa, it didn't even phase him! Clayton though, walked right up and told him all about everything he wants for Christmas: A front loader (a power wheels type one he can drive), a trailer "to haul pipe"(for the power wheels 4-wheeler he has at his Grandma's house), a big dump truck (for the sandbox), and a Polar Express Train set. So not too much! haha. Reese only want's a toy gun, but he has expressed interest in a Polar Express train set too.

Preschool Gingerbread Houses

Clayton and Reese each made ginger bread houses in preschool this week. Lucky for us, their classes planned to do it on different days! Clayton on Thursday, and Reese on Friday so Daddy was able to go for each of them to help them make their houses. He even took pictures!!!

We let them devour as much of them as their little hearts desired tonight after supper!

Sunday School Christmas program

Clayton and Reese sang in their Sunday school Christmas program at church last night. They did such a good job signing and doing the actions to Away in a Manger! I was so proud of them! Here is a link to watch the service if you care to! The actual program doesn't start till 20 min. in, so you might want to progress that point. They line up to sing Oh Little Town of Bethlehem at about 27 min. in (they didn't know that one real well, but they stood up there nicely!) and they go up to sing Away in a Manger at about 33 min. Reese and Clayton are in the middle but Clayton is pretty much right behind another kid, but I was back there and I know he did the actions!! They did so great!
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Wyatt is10 months old!

Somehow, little Wyatt is 10 months old today! Today, Wyatt is about 18.5 lbs and maybe 28.5 inches long (squirmy little thing is hard to measure!) So he's growing! He is wearing 12 month sized clothes and 18 month size pajamas!

He's starting to show is personality and sense of humor more and more, and gets pretty silly at times. Wyatt loves to give (slobber) kisses to mommy and his brothers and play chase and keep away with Harvey (guess who's doing the keeping away!!)

Wyatt is a busy boy; he crawls, and pulls up and cruises and climbs!  He likes to push a walker around, but has no interest in standing alone or walking, not even while holding on to mom or dad's fingers! He just goes limp and tries to sit down. Oh well! It doesn't stop him from getting around though, and he's into everything and even learning the word no! Here he is a couple of weeks ago (11/21) trying to get at Mommy's laptop chords and practicing saying 'no'

Wyatt is mostly eating table food now, he loves spaghetti, green beans, lima beans, carrots, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, toast, eggs, yogurt, the list goes on and on. He even tried some blueberries today! I try to give him at least a little of whatever we are all eating. Also in the past month we've switched over from breastfeeding to all formula. It made this mommy really sad, but he just wasn't wanting to latch and nurse. I don't know if he was just too busy for that, or if I wasn't making enough milk, or what, but he's getting what he needs from a bottle and that's what really matters. He's going all night with out nursing or taking a bottle though, and so that is nice. (Although he does still wake up to jump up and down and holler at us to give him his binky back once or twice, but then he usually goes right back down).

First time with Spaghetti, 11/23

yum!

Now finally, some pictures from today!

Un-decorating the boys' felt Christmas tree.

Thanksgiving Pictures

Now that I have all the pictures from Thanksgiving Day, I will share them here :)

Petersen Thanksgiving (on Thursday):

Wyatt love Aunt Amy's soft scarf!

And he loved her silly antics!

Bonk!

Wyatt loved his mashed taters!

After dinner, the boys made Turkey favors out of candy with Grandma! Clayton was really into it!

The Turkey on the left is the picture from the instructions on how to make them. The one on the right was decorated by our very own Clayton!

Being silly with the whipped cream beaters.

Branz Thanksgiving (on Friday):

Quin and Wyatt were sort of getting into trouble together it seems like! I don't know what Ava was doing. . . Clayton and Reese were too busy watching TV (it's after Thanksgiving so Mommy allows Christmas movies, like Rudolph!)

Here they are peeking out the window together

Quin and Wyatt Emptying out Grandma's cupboards together

Clayton eating one of his turkey's from the day before