Dia de Los Reyes

New Year's Day, plus some...

Little stinker.  So many toys on the floor, but he wants his ball from the basket.

 Luca on the go!

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He's a pro at standing at the kitchen gate already!

Christmas gifts from Auntie Tiff!  They LOVE the new towels!

Love the cooking set from the Cummings!

Paul's Birthday and New Year's Eve

Happy 32nd birthday!  We celebrated the evening before at Scott and Tina's and then spent Paul's birthday day at Sea World.

Pretty funny!

Both my parents and in-laws all have passes too, so we all went.  Sure makes taking 4 kids to a theme park much easier!

Still enjoying Christmas.

Shaving cream in the bath is the new fun thing.

Luca relaxing in his new chair he got for Christmas.  He outgrew the bouncer, but we still wanted something to sit him in, ahem...contain him, and this is perfect!  He can use it up to 30lbs as a rocking chair too!

The were ready and excited for the New Years Noon party!  We had 10 families and lots of kids to ring in the new year a little early!

Luca's first New Year!!!

Luca was happy and playing as we waited up until midnight.

Love this!  First time with all of them doing sparklers.

Little voices saying Happy New Year.

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Settled in to watch our $10 fireworks display.

It was perfect for the price!

Matteo making music with Daddy's beer.  No, he's not drinking it! =)

The later it got, the wilder the kids.  Here they were riding/dragging Rudolph around the house.

By the end, we were all fading fast...except my Abuela.  She was ready for a party!  Too funny.

Sebastian was determined to not fall asleep even though he was a complete zombie.  He had to stay up for the New Years party.  His brothers crashed around 11, but he made it - this is about 5 till.  Poor guy!

Happy 2012!!  Literally in the last 60 seconds Luca woke up and I didn't want to miss it, so I dragged the poor kid out for the final seconds of his birth year, snapped a picture, hugged and kissed everyone and rushed him back to bed.  Luckily he went back to sleep!

Christmas Day

Christmas morning's favorite gift still stands - Cheetos.  =)  My guess is that it will be a breakfast tradition for years to come...

Luca's first Christmas!  He was all about pulling his gift out of his stocking.

Matteo was very "helpful" with all of Luca's presents.

And Luca was very happy with his new squishy ball.  What a face!!

Sebastian got a new writing workbook, which he immediately wanted to stop opening gifts and sit down to work on it.

Matteo was soooooo excited to get his penguin.  Our kids have never been ones to ask for things at stores, but the first time we went to Sea World he saw this little guy and he did not want to let go of it.  He wanted to buy it, but we said no because that would mean having to buy the other three kids with us something too.  But "santa" snuck back to the Sea World store and bought it for him. =)

Loving on his new penguin.

Luca was very interested in all the paper and his brother's gifts too.

The cookie set was a big hit with Matteo.

New planets for his room!  I can't get over how grown up he looks here!

The last Santa gift was a new rock wall for the swing set outside.

Playing with some of the new toys.

Luca went from crawling to cruising the furniture in less than two weeks.  Ooiiy.

These blocks are super cool.

We headed over to Orlando for Christmas with Paul's family and the boys opened more gifts.

Luca is finally warming up to Uncle Corey.

Playing new games.

Luca's new octopus toy.

He loves Aunt Sarah!

Christmas dinner.

And hopefully the tradition begins soon - the kids helping/cleaning up dinner after Christmas!  Tyler was a great helper!