Our 2008 family gingerbread house...

For family home evening we made our annual Stout Family Gingerbread house. AJ drew out the design before we decorated it and for the most part it came out just as he planned..... if only we could get Dylan to not try to eat it before Santa comes!!!

We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!!!

Jingle Bells!!!!

Dylan listens to Christmas music every night at bed time and the other day we were sitting in his room and he had his xylophone and out of nowhere he starting singing Jingle Bells....ENJOY (btw sorry about the quality it was from my cell phone)

It's the most WONDERFUL time of the year!!!!

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS........!

I made this stocking hanger last year in Enrichment and it is definately one of my favorite decorations that we have! In case your wondering the 6th stocking is for Caesar - YES WE ARE THOSE PEOPLE....

This was Dylans first year to actually help decorate the tree and it was also his first year to put the star up....Trevor passed down the tradition this year to his little brother; he had been doing it since he was 2 years old and with such a big gap between them he was quite bummed to give away his job!

DIDN'T DYLAN DO A GREAT DECORATING JOB!!!????

AJ came up with this cool decorating idea.... We had bought these stocking hangers that spell out S~A~N~T~A a few years ago when we had a fireplace and weren't sure what to do with them AJ thought it would be cool to put a letter on each shelf and it really looks cool!


We want to wish all of our familly and friends a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Sleeping Arrangements...

So Dylan is in a big boy bed now (he actually has been since we moved into our house). We first tried the transitional bed that transformed from his crib while we were in our old house but the head and foot board were tall and it freaked him out..... so we went and got him his own big boy bed with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse bedding so that he knew it was his and only his.

So every night he has gone to bed so well without a tear and everynight we hear him playing and laughing and having a great time but of course we never know what it is he's doing thats so funny because we are too afraid to open the door because we don't know how he would react to us coming in after putting him to bed.

Well I got the guts the other night to go in and see what it was exactly he does once he's in bed and this is what I saw.....

1. He was wearing pajamas before he went to bed
2. His head was on his pillow
3. He was cozily tucked in
4. His friends weren't taking over his bed

Why so many friends you may ask - well I have tried in many different ways to eliminate the friends but some how and I don't know how he actually knows who is missing out of all of those friends he has in his bed and he will search his whole room in a panic looking for anyone missing!

I guess as long as he sleeps right?!

AND WHO COULD RESIST THOSE PUPPY DOG EYES!

Teeth

Well it's happened again!

By the time our family is done the Tooth Fairy is going to be broke...... He looks like someone punched him in the mouth and all of his teeth fell out!!!

Congrats Trevor on another successful tooth pulling