New Year's Eve

NJ set up his legos on these two trays and it looked like he was going to give us a demonstration. 

He sorted the pieces by color and showed us how he can put it together. 

He did the plane and something else, it's a 3 in 1. 

It's time to get out with the boys! How cute with their three wheelers. Guh-guh had the coolest, it drifts! 

They did some racing, but even with a huge head start by the younger two, Guh-guh always won.

The boys did some swapping to try each other's out. Some fit better than others! 

Then Auntie and Baba gave it a try! My stomach hurt from laughing. Thank goodness no one ended up in the pond. 

We made a "looking" stop. NJ really wanted to go look at the lego sets. He always says, "We can just look right? We're not buying anything." That's right! He can't get enough of staring and studying the boxes. Sometimes we just go to the store to let him look. 

"That's a really big ornament, you should take a picture of it with me."

"Hey, look at that, Lego!"

"Baba, we're both wearing grey jackets!"

"I like it here."

His friend has plenty of complicated and cool toys that were fun to watch and play with. 

"Bye, have a good flight!"

He loves studying his creative lego building book. This is how I left him, the day went by so quickly. I had lunch and coffee with his Ah-gim and I was gone a while. Baba and NJ went out to do errands together. By the time they got back, it was time to pick up Ah-goo and Ah-gim to go to the airport. 

It was a quick ride to airport, I had to get a quick picture before they had to go. They had a nice backseat re-cap of NJ's mouse jokes he was telling on the days we spent together. He's already missing them. 

Sneaky Snacker, Lunch, and Hair Stylin'

Sneaky guy always getting more snacks than we give him. We caught you! 

Lunch with the gang. They are playing the who-sits-still-the-longest-game. They all did pretty good except for all the laughing from us parents messing around with them. 

All spur of the moment, but we had everyone over after church and lunch. Even Uncle Dan and Auntie Becca! I brought out my latest and greatest hair styler from my mother in law to show the girls. When it comes to beauty products of any kind, I'm pretty clueless. So they taught me a thing or two and we tested it on each other's hair. Not bad, I hope this made us prettier. ;) 

Legos from early morning...

All day he and Baba built legos with the big basket full from Uncle Perry. 

Even Dotty sat and watched.

NJ called this building creation his crane lego building hotel.

Christmas Day

Good morning boys, merry Christmas! So cute. NJ came into our bed this morning and we snuggled up for a while. Usually I make french toast on Christmas mornings, but we were so comfy in bed that we stayed and ran out of time. By the time we got up, it was time to get ready to go. 

Nothing says Christmas like going to a chinese restaurant. Actually, it's not only Christmas, but it's Gong-gong's birthday. We met with family at a restaurant. Baba said it was likely the best lobster he's had. NJ of coarse loves asian food. I didn't quite have as much as they did, but it was good. NJ and Baba played another game of chess while waiting for lunch. 

It is a warm southern ca Christmas. NJ is squinting in the sun with his mango yogurt drink.

NJ wanted to put a star we got onto the top of the tree. He really liked that star we got in our ornament exchange. 

Christmas dinner with Ah-ma and Gong-gong. Baba did the cooking tonight, yum, I love his cooking! We got some turkey, made some rice, mushrooms, peppers, corn, and garlic mashed potatoes. Mmm... I had two platefuls. 

Happy Birthday Gong-gong! 

Everyone enjoying their chocolate cake with chocolate chip ice cream...

Especially this one.

Lots of gifts under the tree.

I mean trees.

NJ only opened a few gifts tonight. We didn't even have the time this morning. When we came back from lunch we napped and then started cooking. He's being so patient. We'll have to open the rest tomorrow. 

By special request, I made one for Baba. 

Yay, a visit from some of our favorite people! Awww, the boys are so cute! Thanks for dropping by! 

NJ concentrated for the rest of the night on putting the lego set together. He did a great job putting it together without help. We tried to help, but he wouldn't let us. He corrected us and did it better and faster than we would have. His grandparents were impressed.