Axel's piggy bank was finally full to the brim and he is finally able to count to 50, so we had a great time sorting and counting Axel's money this past week.
You can see how excited Axel was to empty Mr. Piggy.
On Friday, Axel went to visit Santa again. He really wanted to wear his ti-dye shirt again. The picture looks very similar to last year with the same Santa, nearly the same outfit on Axel and the same smile. The only real difference is that Axel is a year older and has shorter hair now.
On Saturday we had our little family Christmas with Auntie, Uncle, Grandma Susan and Grandpa Brian. They were kind enough to come to our house to shower our future baby girl with lots of clothes/gifts and to shower Axel and us with a great Christmas gathering. It was so nice to have the family together. It has been a long time since just the 7 of us got together.
Axel was so excited to see Auntie he couldn't wait to tell her all he knows about Christmas and the Grinch. He even read "the Grinch that Stole Christmas to her and Uncle Ryan" with a little help from them of course.
Keith and I had a great idea of having a family activity of decorating Christmas sugar cookies. The five of us had a great time letting our creative juices flow while we patiently waited for Grandma and Grandpa to arrive.
I was equally impressed by how good everyone was at decorating cookies.
This batch turned out much better than the previous batch.
Axel continues to be Mr. Funny Man. Here he is joking that he is going to eat his cookie creation. We were all snacking on chips and salsa because we were getting hungry. Axel decided to snack on chips and frosting, but when I caught him dipping multiple chips in the frosting he decided to place a frosted chip on the cookie he was decorating at the time instead of eating it.
I didn't get a lot of good pictures because my phone doesn't take the best of pictures, but I wanted to capture the two couples. Here they all are enjoying themselves.
All in all we had a great day and feel very thankful for the time we were able to share with them.
This morning we went to our neighbors house for a late breakfast. Axel got to play with Max and Rishaan together for the first time in a month. All of the boys have been off and on sick so we haven't had all of the families together in awhile. Rishaan had to leave early so Axel continued to play with Max. Here is a cute picture of them pretending to go to school.
This evening has been a lazy time of watching football and playing games. More football than game playing, as you can see below.
My sister and I loved reading cereal boxes growing up. Axel took interest in this Life cereal box this past week and we have done the activities on the back over a half a dozen times. He wanted to do it with every meal despite the fact that no cereal was involved. I thought this picture was really cute because he looks like such an old little man here. He is always surprising me with his intelligence and it is exciting to see him develop over the weeks and months.
Axel has no child care for the next two and a half weeks so we are looking forward to some more one and one quality time with Axel as well as family time with the three of us before baby girl Szolusha arrives. With four weeks to go it really could be anytime. We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas just in case we don't get to post before then!
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