The Cutest Christmas Vid

Last night when I went to the gym, John gave the babies a bath and put them to bed, I read them a couple Christmas books, and put their Christmas lights on. We had been doing the countdown calendar I made, but I accidentally left it in their room WITH the permanent marker a few nights ago....and Lucas called me in to see all the black marker on his hands...and Olivia had it in hers. I was able to get it off his hands, and then I grabbed the calendar and saw what they had done:

We had just crossed off the "13"...and look...they tried to cross off all the days--pretty good job though huh!? lol. (btw, we are only counting down to the 24th because thats John's day off to celebrate Xmas.)

     So we started just tearing off the days instead of the marker.

 Anyway, we have been Christmas-crazed lately. We watch Xmas movies and read the books, sing the songs, and yesterday after stopping by the lenders office for some last minute paperwork on the house, I decided to take them to the mall just to wave to santa clause. They were so excited to see him again :) But then I remembered why I hate the mall....not all the shoppers, but all the soliciting!!! I just wanted to have a pleasant walk with the babies in the stroller and look at stuff, but every few feet you are yelled at to try some product. I was pretty bothered by some foreign guy named Aldo telling me to buy his hair straightener...he asked me what brand I used...I said "revlon..i think.." he said "oh why do you do that? it damages your hair mam...it burns it"...I said "ok well I don't have the money to waste on one of yours." and he says "how much is a lot of money". I said "hmm 90 bucks". Then he proceeded to be a jerk and say "but you have money to highlight your hair?" AHH! I was really pissed then but I let him continue his selling speech since the babies were quiet. He said he'd give me a $129 straightener for...then he asked if I could keep a secret and showed me $75 on his calculator...ugh. I told him I'd ask my husband.

   To tell the truth I am a little worried that my $25 straightener damages my hair, but I was really annoyed with his method. You shouldn't insult your customers. You don't tell me what I can and can't afford.

  Anyway, so we are very into Christmas! They even started singing "Jingle Bells" with me, when they are in the mood...lately Lucas has his tantrums and HATES it when I sing in the car...saying "stop it mommy! no singing!" so what do I do? Yes. Sing louder. Here they are in a good mood trying to sing it:

And then this is the cutest....last night after we thought they were asleep, we here Lucas calling excitedly for daddy to come....Apparently this is one of the perks of living in an apartment building: Lucas heard our upstairs neighbors making noise above his room, and TRUTHFULLY thought it was St. Nick! so cute...he's so adamant almost in tears that he heard santa and his "aindeers" ...isn't that adorable!? Sorry for how dark it was...just had their xmas lights on.