Christmas.

It's been awhile since I last posted (besides the last potty training post) so I will bombard you with a couple. :) 

Christmas was awesome this year! 

Antonio started to feel the magic and excitement for the first time this year and it was so exciting to watch. As usual I started listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving against most people's thoughts, including Albert's! However, by the 1st week of December Antonio knew every word to Jingle Bells and would request it every time we got in the car. By the second week he not only knew the words to the first part but even the second part:

  Dashing through the snow
  In a one-horse open sleigh
  O'er the fields we go
  Laughing all the way
  Bells on bobtail ring
  Making spirits bright
  What fun it is to ride and sing
  A sleighing song tonight!

By the week before Christmas he was singing it on his on whenever and where ever he wanted. In the swimming pool, in line at Starbucks, in the grocery store...anywhere! He was just doing his duty of spreading holiday cheer! He also knew Frosty the Snowman and started learning Jingle Bell Rock. He still  requests to listen to Jingle Bells in the car; we may be listening to Christmas music into July. :) 

We started asking him what he wanted Santa to bring him early in the month and he held firm with crayons and a boat. This will probably be the easiest year for that! So of course Santa brought him a boat and crayons! 

The boat was/is a HUGE hit! Good job to Papa, err...I mean Santa, for the find on Amazon! It's huge and it even came with a dock. The crayons were pretty much taken care of by our AWESOME daycare lady, Rosemary. He had frequently told her he wanted crayons from Santa so she out did herself and bought him a huge thing of crayons!! 

He LOVED it! So of course the ones we got him (as well as Grammy and Grandpa) were not nearly as exciting but he still seemed excited. ;) I must admit, they are pretty great. I mean it is much better than any crayons I ever got! There are metallic ones and glitter ones as well as regular ones! He is one lucky boy! 

Christmas Eve we had no plans so we watched the Polar Express before going to bed,which is now his favorite movie. We decided it was perfect since it is all about believing (and a train). We have the book and had been reading it every night since Thanksgiving so he was somewhat familiar with the storyline. he sat through the whole thing too. We decided it would be a new tradition every year! We also put out cookies and milk for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph! 

Antonio had so much fun seeing ALL his cousins for the first time. Meaning, in the past, he has been a bit overwhelmed by them all, especially at the Schneidler gathering. This time he thoroughly enjoyed them ALL! Granted when telling him who he was going to see he would be very disappointed when he asked if Shaun and Logan were going to be there and I told him no. :) He would rapidly get over that disappointment once there. He had so much fun playing with them; I wish we got to seem them more! We are already looking forward to next year, Antonio especially! :)