Dancin' Fool

It seems like I had a lot of pics of Levi. Sometimes it's more Max, sometimes Levi. Mostly it depends on who will sit still long enough to take a picture. Right now that's Levi. But here is a little video I got of Max on his first sleepover with his Uncle Jared. It looks like he had a great time and had a lot of fun. But you be the judge.

Too Cool

He sure loves his sunglasses.

First Day

A couple weeks ago was Levi's first day of primary and it was my first day of having a child in primary. I wasn't quite sure how he was going to handle it because he LOVES nursery and his teachers. I mean loves it. He gets so excited for it every Sunday and is sad every time we pick him up to leave. But the day had to come sometime.

To prepare I'd been talking primary up a lot and telling him about how he gets a new teacher and new class and how much fun it is. Also I let him have one of my mini Book of Mormons I used in collage when I didn't want to pack heavy. He even got a little bag to put it in, which he was so excited to carry (It was one of those small bags we got from the subway kids meal. It was the manliest bag I could find on short notice. I think I'll make something even better eventually, we'll see.)

He loved going and I got to see him during the primary time because I do music. At first he sat still longer than I had ever seen him in his life trying to absorb it all in but towards the last 15 minutes or so he really got into things during the music time and has been great ever since. I'm so excited to be able to see him in primary and how he interacts with people. This kid is a natural born sunbeam.

Craftiness, the next generation

We have a craft bucket for craft supplies, like construction paper, scissors, googly eyes, water colors....basically anything besides paper and crayon for the boys to play with whenever they get to feeling crafty. Levi decided he wanted to do his watercolors, so I helped him get set up but apparently, he wanted to get even MORE creative while I was working on some other things.
But at least he knows how to use the scissors (kind of)
make some funny faces,
and lay things out to dry. What a crafty little man.

Boys, boys, boys

During the White's visit for Christmas there were a lot of little boys running around the house. They had lots of fun playing with each other. Levi was constantly asking when Elijah was coming over, and then when they finally came he would freak out and give everyone hugs which I think sort of freaked his cousins out. Levi's a little in your face like that.

They found lots of things to do including watching some fun movies. Levi had a list of the ones he wanted them to watch weeks before they came. So that and a never ending supply of popcorn made for some fun nights.
They had lots of meals together while they were here. We just put them all at one table and let them have at it. Suprisingly they didn't make as big of messes as I thought. Turns out four boys eating isn't that much more of a mess than two.
We sure love our boys!

Goodrich Day

So with all the family craziness during Christmas I decided I wanted to have a day with the Goodrich's, just our little family. It was a simple day, a quiet day, a day for us four. I didn't really take many pictures, we just relaxed and had fun.

Jason made waffles for us, we did the nativity story again with our felt board, we played with all the new games Levi got for Christmas, and of course all the toys. We even went to the store and got a Woody doll because Buzz was such a hit and caused way too many fights. Ok, maybe it was because I was super excited to get it for them. Here is what I was able to catch on camera. Pay attention to the sequence of events.

Max got Buzz from Grandpa, he loves the buttons, carrying it around, flying it. It's the perfect toy. Levi had actually been pretty good about not taking it away ALL the time.
Mr. Max also wants anything his Levi has, regardless of what he has in his own hands.
Levi put up a hard fight but look at those eyes, can you guess who he picks in the Buzz vs Woody debate?
Yeah, he got what he really wanted. I think they both did.
"To infinity and beyond!"

Christmas 2010

I can't even believe Christmas is over, it went by so fast. Things got way busier with the store than I thought it would but I suppose in the end that's a good thing. I am SOOO glad we got our shopping and wrapping done early. And I also decided to forgo the Christmas cards and goodie plate again and save them for V-day, when things aren't quite so busy. I think that's becoming a new family tradition and I have some fun stuff planned for them this year!

For Christmas we decided to stay in Oregon. We started off with a Christmas "program" like we do every year, headed up by my mom. It was very eventful. We did pajama time, goodie time, read the Christmas story full of acting, colored on 'tea towels', wrote notes to each other, and sang some songs.
Max's PJ's were my favorite. I think if it were up to me, he'd only wear striped pants.
Guess what Levi's favorite part was???
And you can be if Levi was into it, Max-o wasn't too far behind. ***note, his song book is upside down, but he sure loved singingBy the end of it all, all the boys were exhausted with all the fun and ready for a good night's sleep. We we so tired we forgot to leave out cookies for Santa, but that didn't stop him from coming! I bet he knew how tired we were and snuck some out of the cupboard.

Now for Christmas morning.

This is probaly my favorite moment of Christmas 2010. Look at that face! Right after coming out of his room Levi came running out where I was waiting with a couple others.
He saw it all and declared "Santa brought presents!!!!"
Then after I told him we had to wait a bit, decided he needed to go tell his uncles, who were sleeping downstairs, the good news. I don't know if they liked it or not, but who can get mad at a little kid Christmas morning?
Max? Where do you think? That's right, he needs his beauty sleep. A kid that cute needs a lot.
Eventually Max woke up and we'd kept them out of the presents for as long as we could and decided to give in and let them play with their new wagon grandpa and grandma Goodrich had got. How did they know?
After a while the other folks showed up and had some breakfast then the boys were ready to go!
Even though they'd just eaten, the boys were more than happy to guzzle down some of the juice from their stockings.
Elijah and Henry also were able to find something sweet in theirs.
Then it was present time, which was in two words pure chaos. I was pretty stunned by it all. My brother was handing out presents left and right and all the boys started ripping open presents regardless of who it was for, but they seemed to be having fun. Levi even got pretty excited about getting new pants!
I put the camera down for the rest of the day after this. But here is Jason opening his gift from Levi. Several days before I took him to the dollar store to buy presents for people. I asked him what kind of present he thought daddy would like. "A tool". So we went down the tool aisle and instantly he saw this. We have a few of these so I tried to steer him towards something else but he was VERY insistent that this was perfect for dad. "Dad needs a scraper. He needs it." So we got it.
Later that night all the boys watching something, but apparently it was pretty interesting.