Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas from the Foltz Family!! I hope everyone has a great Christmas. We are so excited for our Wade's 2nd Christmas. Today he cracked us up (by the way Josh is off today and he is off until after New Years!! Hallelujah!!!) Yesterday I asked Wade what he wanted from Santa and he said "popcorn" and this morning Josh and I asked him and he said "granola bars." If only we had known this prior to buying him all his stuff. Only my child would want food for Christmas. That boy loves to eat.

I think we over did it a little again this year but I started shopping in October for him and just bought little things here and there. It looks like a lot of stuff but really a lot of it was $5-10 stuff or less. His kitchen set and his potty are his bigger things. Actually two of his toys are from his first birthday! My mom thinks this is so tacky but he will never know the difference. They have been in his closet this whole time. I guess I need to pick up a couple of boxes of granola bars so my sweet boy will get something that he asked for. I can't wait to see his face when he wakes up tomorrow morning.

I have a few friends who are doing three gifts for their children and I love this idea; they are basing it on baby Jesus getting three gifts and I think this is a great idea. I remember we got so many gifts it would take us an hour or more to open them. I want Wade to enjoy getting gifts but I don't want this to be the main focus of Christmas. (Not to mention I know he will get lots of things from his grandparents and Aunt's and Uncle's!!) So next year we are going to try to start doing this. I think one of the three will be a "bigger" gift and then two smaller things. Of course I may throw in a few outfits but those won't really count for him because he could care less about clothes. I think I am going to take him next year with me to pick out a present for Toys for Tots or for a child who really needs something. He really didn't quite understand that this year. That way he will start learning about giving as well as receiving.

Merry Christmas I am taking a little blogging break to spend time with my family!! I will have a lot of catch up posts when I get back. Have a Happy and Safe Christmas.

P.S.

I finally added some pictures from our family Christmas Parties this past weekend!

And just because I couldn't resist... wade sleeping on his Pappi bear (it was a great way to get rid of paci but he could care less about the bear now-he uses it for a pillow!!)

Here is my little man checking out some good sales at the Family Christian Book Store! I love the next one, he was worn out from all the reading!! He loves to try to find the Veggie Tale things in their sales paper.



Night Night time!

This video is from a few weeks ago but I thought it was cute! I wish he was still saying this...he has been fighting us lately with going to sleep at night and for naps??

W-A-D-E that spells Wade!

It's almost here!!

I am so excited for Christmas this year. Last year Wade was really fun but he understands so much more this year and boy can he open a present quickly!! If you ask him about Santa coming he will tell you he is going to bring him a "present" or a "surprise" I don't think he really gets the Santa thing but he is excited about his surprise. However Josh is not excited about about putting his 1,000 piece kitchen set together. We really need to start that tomorrow night. As much as I love the idea of Santa and leaving some presents unwrapped for Wade each year I really hope Wade will understand the real meaning of Christmas. We talk about it and he is so cute and when he sees a manger scene he will point and say "baby Jesus" and he will talk about the Angel and Mary. Last year we started a tradition of reading the Christmas Story together on Christmas Eve and making sure we talk about Jesus's Birthday. I would love to hear everyone else's ideas for "keeping the real meaning of Christmas alive."

This year we are starting a new tradition with my parents and Ashley and Zach. We have always done Christmas with them on Christmas morning but now that we are both married and especially since we have Wade we have changed it a little. So we are now doing "Christmas" with my side of the family on Christmas Eve. I am so excited about this new tradition. Then Josh, Wade and I will have our own family time Christmas morning. They will all come over to have breakfast and to see what Wade got on Christmas morning. However we will always keep our tradition of going to look at Christmas lights with my family on Christmas Eve. We have done this every year since we were born. I just don't know how we are all going to fit in one car this year? Once we have another baby and Ashley and Zach have kids we will have to follow each other to look at lights. My favorite part used to be "looking for Santa and Rudolf's nose" Its amazing that I thought the red light from an airplane was really Santa!!" I think Christmas traditions are something I remember the most. I can't wait to make start new traditions with our little family.

Santa Pictures!

Here are Wade's pictures with Santa from last week. Sorry this post is a little out of order but its ok!! I think we are going to skip the mall this year since we got these. Here is Wade more interested in eating than in Santa!

Wade did so well not crying but he didn't want Santa to lean his head on his! He got a little braver as he sat there and ended up giving Santa a big hug before he got down.

Here is Wade saying "Ho Ho Ho" for Santa...it was too cute. I love the next picture of Wade and Santa laughing after he said it.

Wade's weekly sayings!!

So with my type A personality I am trying so hard to get all my blogging and stuff caught up before Christmas. For some reason the way I have to upload pictures has now changed to google?? Has anyone else's done this? It is driving me crazy because it is not working so I have a bunch of posts without any pictures until it starts working again. Oh well.

Wade has been cracking me up the past two days. Yesterday he threw a fit when I picked him up from the gym (he wanted to stay) and then he wouldn't hold my hand in the parking lot and threw a fit when I picked him up. So he was screaming and I was trying to get him in the car seat and hit his head on the door (I do this way too much because my car is so small.) Of course this made him cry even more. Well today we were getting in the car and he says "no hit head mommy" Poor child is scared now when I put him in the car. I felt bad but he did make me laugh.

Last night we were sitting on the couch looking at video's of "baby wade" (that I finally got uploaded on our new computer- we have over 200 video's!) and all of a sudden he gets down off of the couch. I asked him "wade where are you going?" I was thinking he would just ignore me but instead he looks at me and says " meet daddy" I almost died laughing...I guess he was tired of waiting for Josh to get home!!

One thing I can not tolerate is a whinny child. Since wade has been really little (12 months or so) if he needs something he has to tell me. Whining or pointing just does not work. Anyways he does whine but when he does I stop him and make him say what he wants and say please. He has started saying "wade needs it" "wade needs it"which always makes me laugh. Anyways so I always say "No whining wade" and usually he understands and does great. Well today we went to the dollar store for something and there was this little girl in there really whining about something. Well wade says "Lil girl whining" of course I laughed and then said "yes wade she is whining" I said "what does mommy say about that?" He says "no whining." I thought it was so funny he recognized that she was being whinny!!

We were crazy this morning running errands and going to the gym because I have to work at 5p tonight. After we went to the last store today I put wade in the car and I said whew..."mommy is worn out" "Is wade worn out?" After a second he took a deep breath (I must have done that) and he says "mommy worn out, wade worn out!" That just summed up our morning!!

I decided to take him to Subway for lunch. We were almost done and I asked him to eat his last few piece's of ham and he looks at me and yells (literally) "No" Well that made me upset and I said "excuse me, we do not tell mommy no like that" Well my smart mouth child looks at me and yells "No Ma'am." Guess he didn't want that ham...Oh that boy!!