The last few months of the year went by in a flash. Thanksgiving happened and we have exactly two pictures of the big event at Uncle Paul's house. Katie was looking so cute in her Thanksgiving shirt and Jacob enjoyed a little play time with Alex.
We missed the Cole family this year, but Christmas was fast approaching.
Christmas Eve we went to Babcia and Dziadzia's house. As always, Babcia and Dziadzia cooked a delicious feast. After eating, we heard some noises outside and sure enough Santa had left some presents. Alex said he saw some shadows outside, but Dziadzia was outside fixing the Christmas lights and said he only heard some bells jingling in the distance. Looks like we missed seeing Santa in his sleigh again this year.
Jacob got the first present and we watched him rip off tiny pieces of
the paper for 5 minutes. What could be under all that paper!?!
Finally, Jacob got a peek of Thomas coming from under the paper and we never saw him move so quickly. Jacob ripped the rest of the paper off in one quick
motion. The excitement was palpable as Jacob sprinted to the kitchen looking for scissors to break open the packaging!
This was Jacob for the majority of the night.
Not to worry, there were plenty of other awesome Thomas toys to unwrap as the night went on. This Christmas was a big one since Jacob was a little more knowledgeable about opening gifts. Unfortunately, this also means Jacob was too busy to take family pictures. Luckily we still have one cooperative child! And what a cutie she is!
Christmas day we opened presents at our house and went to mass. By now, Jacob was very familiar with the present process and wasted no time.
Even Katie had a great first Christmas in her first home.
Then we headed to Grammy and Gdaddy's house for Christmas weekend and round three of fine tuning our present opening skills! Immediately upon arrival, Jacob learned that the new next door neighbors had received a sure fire way to break your arm aka a trampoline!!!!! Well, of course Jacob went next door with the twins to jump jump jump! This is the only picture we got since it was pretty chilly and only energy filled little boys want to go jump on a trampoline!
Jacob played with the girls and dressed up like a butterfly and what a cute butterfly he was! Coincidentally, Ashley also taught us that the candy cane is the symbol of a Shepard's cane.
While Jacob occupied the girls, Katie spent her time snuggling......eating......
demanding to be carried.....
and checking out the awesome dolls that she is not used to seeing at home with a big brother around!
Jacob opened more presents! Sneaky Grammy always slides in some clothes. Luckily Grammy saved the best for last....
Jacob also got a TRAIN!!!! What do you do when you get a train for Christmas? Well, you put on your butterfly wings to play....of course!
2014 was a big year!
We brought home our beautiful little Katie and started on our new family home. 2014 sure has been memorable.
