Christmas at Our House

We had a wonderful Christmas this year at the Welling house. The boys were both old enough to enjoy the festivities and Robert was really able to participate in the baking and crafts. Nicholas didn't understand what was going on, but he understood that it was fun and made it his mission to daily strip the Christmas tree of all the ornaments within his reach.
There is always a lot of baking going on at our house, but it goes into overdrive for the holidays. I loved that this year, Robert was actually enthusiastic about helping bake and not just helping eat.

Robert made cupcake ornaments to give out on Christmas Eve.

Homemade jelly doughnuts Daddy's first day off.

Peanut looked so cute in big brother's winter hat.

Christmas Eve.

Christmas morning at home.

Nicholas got an African music cd. He LOVES music and will drop whatever he is doing to dance. he really got into at the zoo when we visited the new African Forest, so we thought he needed this cd. I think he is going to be my musical one. He started singing months ago and has an uncanny ability to repeat melodies he hears. It melts my heart to hear him sing.

Super hero capes from Mommy.

Robert's big gift: a big crane truck. He was in heaven.

Second Christmas at Gigi and Grandaddy's house.

Fourth Christmas at Mimi and Boopa's house.

Nicholas really is the biggest ham imaginable.

Our advent calendar that I made a few years ago. This year, we had devotions for each day and I made dough ornaments to correspond to those.

Fun on the trampoline they got from Gigi and Grandaddy.