Christmas With The Osborne's....Part 2

The kids are starting to get a hang of opening presents and kept asking for more!
 
 


Then the MONSTER, as they call it, was opened.

Christmas With The Osborne's....Part 1

Today The Osborne family began to assemble to celebrate Christmas together. The twins helped show their cousins Morgan and Jake the awesomeness of the Toy Story Trilogy.....lucky them!

Ethan and Elaine were finally allowed to use their dishes that their Grandma and Grandpa gave them back when they were born. They were both so excited to use them that they had to sit at the table a good 15 minutes before dinner was served.

I can't believe how well behaved they were. The tree was full of presents and they didn't even touch them or cry when we told them they had to wait until tomorrow morning to open them.

Beautiful

Aunt Jamies gave Elaine some of Morgan's old Disney princess dress up clothes......I'll just leave it at that!

SNOW DAYS

This morning we woke up to our first snow of the winter. The kids were very excited to get out there and play. It is so different from last year. We will definitely have to invest in some snow pants and boots for this winter.

After a trip down the slide into the snow, the twins were ready to come inside. They got to enjoy their first cup of hot chocolate. They were in heaven!

Pizza Madness

For Patrick's birthday back in August the twins had gotten him a french bread pizza maker. They love helping him cut the dough and put toppings on their individual pizza rectangle.

They especially like watching them bake....a Sunday night favorite!

We started the exciting task of putting the tree up today. The twins thought it was the best. Ethan quickly lost interest, but Elaine stuck with me for the entire decorating. She loved the ornaments.

Later that night they took some time out from playing "meerkats" to find their favorite ornament from their GG.

Happy Birthday Nonnie

Tonight we all went out to celebrate Nonnie's birthday. The twins had a blast snacking on breadsticks and mac n cheese. After dinner we headed back to Cincinnati. What a great Thanksgiving.

Learning to Share

The kids are slowly starting to share. We were in Urbana for Thanksgiving and I took all the kids to get slushies. Ethan and Elaine "shared" one, but the cup never left Ethan's hands! And yes, it was a PJ day.

Pit Stop With Grandma & Grandpa

Grandma & Grandpa stopped for the night on their way home from St. Louis. We went out to dinner and relaxed at home. The twins were sad to see them leave but will see them soon for Christmas.

Company for Lunch

Uncle Timmy and Phillip came over today while Aunt Melissa was at worked. The kids had a blast eating lunch together. Phillip even used sat at a chair without the booster!...he's getting too big!

Long drive home from St. Louis

The kids have always been good travelers, mostly because we bribe them with French Fries and movies. This time Ethan got ahold of some chocolate while watching some Backyardigans. I wish that I could eat fries and watch movies in my PJ's without a care in the world!

Dinner with GG

Today we broke GG out of the rehab facility and made her dinner at her house. After dinner the kids had cookies from Aunt Jean. We were able to get them away from the cookies for a minute to get a group photo of all the kids.

Uncle Roy having some fun with the kids.

Slumber Party at GG's

We brought some toys to GG's but they were more excited to play with the flashlights that they found. The kids wanted to go "exploring" at GG's. In a very rare moment, we were able to get them all in the same spot to relax for a couple minutes and watch Toy Story 3. Of course, the flashlights had to come with them.

Little Musicans

The kids found 2 harmonicas while at Uncle Nancy's and Uncle Jim's. It took a couple minutes to figure them out, but here is the best they could do.

A Very Busy Day With Family

Saturday was a busy day! We started at the Science Center. All of the kids had a lot of fun.....minus Henry who slept the whole time! The kids ran around like loons and were so well behaved. They loved the overpass of the highway where they had glass cutouts you could walk on and see cars below zooming past. Personally it freaked me out!

After we felt the kids had sufficiently ran off enough energy we headed out to visit GG. Her current place is very nice. Everyone there loved the kids running around and they had a blast visiting with GG, Aunt Jean and putting together a Woody puzzle.

After our visit with GG we went back to the house for a short rest time and then headed out to Aunt Nancy and Uncle Jim's. We had a wonderful visit with everyone there. Aunt Kathy, Uncle Don, little Nancy, Mark, Michael, Alicia, Jennifer, Tom and all the grandkids were able to come. It was so nice of them to put that together and we had so much fun visiting and watching the show the Michael and Jennifer's girls put on for the adults. The kids were out within a minute of us leaving, they definitely wore themselves out!

Halloween 2010

Tonight was trick or treat. The twins' cousin Phillip came over with Aunt Melissa and Uncle Timmy. All three came home with some serious loot! All three kids will definitely sleep tonight after all that running around!

We've Come a Long Way

I thought this was fun to look at.....two years later!

They definitely don't need me to hold them anymore! What happened to my babies?!

A Trip to the Patch

Today the twins, Phillip, Aunt Melissa, and I went to a pumkin patch. It was the same patch we took the twins to two years ago right before poor Ethan came down with croup.

Everyone had a blast especially on the hayride through the forest. The kids also enjoyed checking out the goat.

An Overnight Visitor

Tonight the twins had their cousin Phillip sleep over. Patrick and I braved the unkown by taking all three to the store. Everyone had a good time and Elaine was very excited to ride in the car with Phillip.

HallZOOween

The kids needed to get some practice for this weekend, so we took them to HallZOOween at the Cincinnati Zoo. The kids wanted to get into their costumes and get some CANDY! They are meerkats this year, even though if you asked them they are lions.

Here are the kids getting ready at home. The loved having tails for some reason and had to hold onto them. .

The kids ride at the zoo.

Elaine getting to pick out a little pumpkin

Not so happy when one of the treat stations gave out toothbrushes...

They have no fear when it comes to animals. I would not come close to the snake.

Ethan decided that he wanted to help pull the wagon, we all know how this goes.

The kids on the carousel. Ethan picked out the Giraffe and Elaine wanted the Wolf.