For Thanksgiving, we traveled to Knoxville to spend the holiday at Nana & Granddaddy's. We got to spend lots of time with Uncle Mike & Aunt Celeste, Jay & Amelia. We had some excitement less than 12 hours after we arrived when Allen fell off a swing and broke his arm. So we spend most of the day before Thanksgiving at the hospital and in the doctor's office getting him x-rayed and casted. Thankfully, it was a minor break and it didn't slow him down one bit!
On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we traveled to Orlando to spend a week at Disney World. We had a great time (cast and all!) visiting all four of the parks, riding all our favorite rides, eating great meals, seeing all the characters...it was a great trip! Everything was decorated for Christmas - beautiful! The boys were great all week and we had a really fun family vacation. They enjoyed Disney World but have asked to go back to Disneyland next time. To this point, Patrick and I agree. With the boys this age, Disneyland is more manageable and less stressful. So we'll head to California the next time the Disney bug bites!
Christmas was fun this year. We had a great few weeks leading up to it. Grandma and Grandpa came to visit right after we got home from Florida and we had a good time seeing them for a few days. The boys managed the craziness of the schedules pretty well, enjoying their parties at school and seeing friends to celebrate the holidays. We visited the lights at Christmas in the Park at Longview Lake - a long-standing tradition around here that we had never seen. It was fun and the boys really enjoyed the displays! On Christmas Eve morning, Nana & Granddaddy arrived to spend Christmas with us. We had a fun day, went to an early Christmas Eve service, had a casual dinner and an early bedtime. It was so nice! Christmas Day went well - the boys got lots of great things they had asked for and had fun playing with all their new toys. Patrick and my dad decided to build a table for all the Lego trains we now own. It's huge!! But it serves its purpose quite well. After a few days of working around the house, we had more company arrive to finish out the holidays. Uncle Mike, Aunt Celeste, Jay & Amelia came in town and we all had a great time in our very full house! We took them to Union Station to see the Christmas train displays, to the Plaza to see the lights and enjoy a KC BBQ dinner, spent lots of time outside enjoying the beautiful, mild weather (much to Jay’s dismay…he really wanted snow!!) and even had time for a “Girls’ Day Out” for Amelia to take her American Girl dolls to the store for some spa time and shopping just for them (we had some real shopping and food for the big girls too!). We calmly celebrated New Year’s Eve by going to bed early…after midnight in New York, which we decided is what counts anyway!
And now back to reality…
Drew is doing great in Kindergarten. His teacher is fabulous at recognizing the kids that need additional challenges and has started spelling tests with 8 kids in his class. He has taken 2 tests with 10 words each time and so far is at 100%! We are very proud! Reading still comes very easily for him and we are thankful for that. He is playing basketball right now and seems to be enjoying it (although there aren't any college scouts lined up to watch him play just yet!). We have already registered for baseball in May, are considering soccer this spring, and swim lessons start back in March. He is definitely staying busy!
Allen misses his brother desperately while Drew is at school but we are finding ways to stay busy. He loves preschool and wishes it was more than 3 days a week. We did just get the good news that the pre-K program at his school is shifting to 4 days next year which will be fabulous for him. He starts swimming lessons in February and we are looking into a t-ball program for him this summer. He would love to get back into soccer so we are looking at that as well. We're registered for some special programs at the zoo in the next few weeks too so that will be fun.
Patrick has enjoyed some time off from travel but is preparing to start back up very soon. I am looking forward to my birthday in a couple of weeks and have just scheduled gallbladder surgery for next month. Oh the joys!! We plan a trip to Colorado over Spring Break to see Maggie, Lizzy & Katherine while they are in the States for a few weeks. Maybe it will snow there since we haven’t seen any here yet! (I know…bite my tongue…now the blizzards will come!!)
Now to try and keep up with posts for the next few months!!
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