The Circle of Christmas

With four year olds, the holidays are amazingly fun. The twins are over the moon excited and their enthusiasm is contagious.

For me, I'm trying not to get too stressed out and have as much fun as the kids this season. I'm not worried about putting all the decorations up or having a perfectly matched tree. It's more fun to let the kids decorate the tree and let them play with the ornaments which I then find in random places around the house and usually broken. Merry Christmas!

There are sturdier ornaments out there. The other day the twins made salt dough ornaments at school. They turned out really cute.

We hung them on the tree.

And then one of the dogs took it off the tree and ate it. The circle of Christmas.

It is practically a cookie if you don't mind eating a little glitter.

I hope everyone is finding their own way to enjoy the holiday season!

Jump Party Fun

Yesterday the North Dallas Mother's of Twins Club held their Christmas Party at Jump Mania.

It was awesome! The kids had so much fun and totally wore themselves out. They're still talking about it this morning and trying to jump on various pieces of furniture to recreate Jump Mania.

While there we tried jumping with the velcro suit, but didn't have much success sticking to the wall.

Really just enjoyed running through the obstacle course and sliding down. Over and over and over.

We also got to meet Santa who had an awesome, heavy Texas accent. Seriously fun afternoon!

Iced In

Last weekend we had an ice storm here in Dallas and it kept us indoors for a few days. 

We were lucky because a lot of folks lost electricity. My Mom was one of them. Her power went out at 5am Friday morning. I was worried about her staying in her cold house, but she was concerned  about trying to drive on the ice. When the sun started to go down Friday afternoon and her house got darker and colder, she packed up and came to our house. Chloe was thrilled, she and GiGi had a slumber party for the next three nights. Mom didn't get electricity again until Monday afternoon.

The first day we were in the house was fine and a little fun. The kids bundled up to go outside but quickly realized ice is not nearly as fun as snow, so we were back in for hot cocoa after a quick, cold, 10 minutes.

Over the next few days of captivity we did get a few things accomplished. I was happy to get the tree up with a little help from the twins.

My Mom got creative and the kids got to make their own pizzas. Big success!

But mostly there was a lot of laying around being lazy.

The kids were bummed when we could finally get back out on the roads and they headed to school on Tuesday, but Carl and I were totally ready for the ice-in to be over!