It was a very merry christmas 'round the maddux abode!
santa came through!
the "big buzz lightyear with the blue circle belt from star command" was awaiting him christmas morning. "IT CAME!" were his exact words "my buzz came!" he was so stinkin' cute. for the full effect tune into the next post (blogger is being silly right now) and watch the video...it's classic.
the adorable thing is that as obsessed as he was with getting a buzz, he was equally if not more excited for ali to get her kitchen. he is the early riser (although he miraculously slept 'till 8) but he quickly ran back up to wake our sleeping beauty up and with a voice full of joy announce to her that her kitchen had indeed come. she was equally obsessed...she hasn't stopped playing with her kitchen since.
my parents found ali the cutest bake ware ever. I think it deserves a future post all unto it's own. seriously who knew they made actual miniature spring form pans that you can really bake with? the cookie set pictured below has a real cookie sheet in it that just happens to fit in her oven with perfection. seriously, it needs it's own post.
here is her cute new serving set...my mom found these too. they are heavy duty serious plates. as you can see she set right to using them.
and set a place for her knew obsession, molly...she deserves her own post too.
and then what to do? make cookies of course...she is her mother's daughter.
yep, onto the pan and straight into the oven.
and while one has a batch in the oven, who could resist eating a little ice cream. this is a doug and melissa set of wooden food, and I heart wooden food...I just hope it never becomes a weapon 'cause those things could inflict some serious damage.
and this is the felt food that mommy made. I have been working on this stuff for a while and have to give justin his props as well...he made the carrots and peas pictured here. I love having a husband who is secure enough in his manhood to craft with me.
and what was cole doing during all this kitchen fun? patiently waiting with woody in tow while daddy opened the long awaited "buzz"...and raveled the 2, 000 twist ties that kept him prisoner in all that packaging.
ali continued to play with her kitchen...she was so into it that I couldn't even get her to turn around and look at me.
this is the best I could get people...a random "quick mom take the picture, while I give you this weird I'll-take-pity-on-you-and-let-you-take-one-picture-of-me-face...but hurry!" and I was lucky to catch this, 'cause it only lasted 4 seconds!
yep, still doing this...
meanwhile ali moved on to making us all yoger-et as she calls it.
and finally...
success!
the hilarious thing is that he tried to take these upstairs still in the boxes and put them away so they would be safe before ever opening them...that is how precious these are to him. when we finally convinced him to open them he was very protective of them.
my favorite picture of the whole morning was one where I caught cole doing this...somehow it was tragically deleted and so I had cole play with them while I had the camera out so I could semi-recapture the tender moment...good thing he is obsessed so it wasn't hard to do!
we keep catching him playing and saying things like
my parents found ali the cutest bake ware ever. I think it deserves a future post all unto it's own. seriously who knew they made actual miniature spring form pans that you can really bake with? the cookie set pictured below has a real cookie sheet in it that just happens to fit in her oven with perfection. seriously, it needs it's own post.(and check out her awesome bed head)
here is her cute new serving set...my mom found these too. they are heavy duty serious plates. as you can see she set right to using them.
and set a place for her knew obsession, molly...she deserves her own post too.
and then what to do? make cookies of course...she is her mother's daughter.
yep, onto the pan and straight into the oven.
and while one has a batch in the oven, who could resist eating a little ice cream. this is a doug and melissa set of wooden food, and I heart wooden food...I just hope it never becomes a weapon 'cause those things could inflict some serious damage.
and this is the felt food that mommy made. I have been working on this stuff for a while and have to give justin his props as well...he made the carrots and peas pictured here. I love having a husband who is secure enough in his manhood to craft with me.
and what was cole doing during all this kitchen fun? patiently waiting with woody in tow while daddy opened the long awaited "buzz"...and raveled the 2, 000 twist ties that kept him prisoner in all that packaging.
ali continued to play with her kitchen...she was so into it that I couldn't even get her to turn around and look at me.
this is the best I could get people...a random "quick mom take the picture, while I give you this weird I'll-take-pity-on-you-and-let-you-take-one-picture-of-me-face...but hurry!" and I was lucky to catch this, 'cause it only lasted 4 seconds!
yep, still doing this...
meanwhile ali moved on to making us all yoger-et as she calls it.
and finally...
success!
the hilarious thing is that he tried to take these upstairs still in the boxes and put them away so they would be safe before ever opening them...that is how precious these are to him. when we finally convinced him to open them he was very protective of them.
so here is the food (minus one cookie that is currently being played with)...and the grocery sack justin and I made to hold it all out of fun foam.
there are sandwhich options like PB and jelly, as well as cold cuts. asparagus because its ali's favorite, bacon that has raw and cooked sides, a banana that comes out of it's peel, bowtie pasta with sauce and parmesan, potatoes and gravy, a T-bone steak, one random strawberry because I got sick of making them after one, carrots and peas made by daddy, pancakes, eggs, chicken nuggets, and chocolate chip cookies. there is still so much more that I want to make! I will add to this stash as I get more masterpieces completed.
my favorite picture of the whole morning was one where I caught cole doing this...somehow it was tragically deleted and so I had cole play with them while I had the camera out so I could semi-recapture the tender moment...good thing he is obsessed so it wasn't hard to do!
we keep catching him playing and saying things like
woody: "where did you come from?"
buzz: "santa brought me for colton."
woody: "for colton!"
and he keeps putting them up in the play room and shutting the door so they are alone...he is hoping to go in randomly and catch them in a live state...it's pretty cute.
cole also has continuously locked all of our bathrooms since buzz arrived...when asked why in the world all the bathrooms keep getting locked he replied "I don't want ali to get buzz wet and ruin him."...haha to be honest, smart move.
he loves these to pieces and while he normally gives ali anything she wants, these were special to him and so we were ok with him keeping them to himself for the day...the thing was if ali even came near where they were he would yell out "No! ali don't get my buzz! oh no she is going to get my woody" we were alerted any time she even came in the general vicinity of them...
but daddy is a genius and after a while I walked into find this had replaced the anxiety...
ali had grabbed her jessie and daddy had convinced them to have a picnic...cutest daddy ever.
the anxiety issues over buzz and woody almost dissolved after that point.
and what is with this new stink eye face when I ask for a smile?
she kills me.
so now that cole was ready to share, it was even more adorable.
and ali leapt at the opportunity and laid them all down for a sleep over...
buzz, apparently sensing danger escaped the first chance he got.
but it was ok because molly was there to occupy ali. ali was given this baby alive by her grandma and grandpa...my parents must be trying to get me back because it poops and pees...we will not be using that function. over all though it is adorable, she named it molly. she bounces it on her hip, tells us she is "so stinky" and changes her diaper. it wiggles (which freaked her out at first), coo's, cries, giggles, and burps...as well as makes sucking sounds when you feed her with her bottle. remarkably it's not annoying, thanks to an on/off switch.
my parents came up the week before christmas and gave it to her so she has had it a while and packs it everywhere...that's why in the video cole comes packing molly down for her...he was trying to save time and get her down faster!
it was a wonderful weekend...I mean look at their faces.
we had a very peaceful weekend at home and the kid's got to help us do some things to help santa get to some other kids which made christmas a special time. we had a turkey dinner, watched movies, went to the park, and thoroughly enjoyed each other. cole and ali helped us tell the story of Christ's birth and although we were not there to see Jesus recieve his gifts of "gold and merb" as cole calls it, we felt truly blessed to know what happened that special night, that made it so we can enjoy our family like we did this holiday, throughout eternity.
he loves these to pieces and while he normally gives ali anything she wants, these were special to him and so we were ok with him keeping them to himself for the day...the thing was if ali even came near where they were he would yell out "No! ali don't get my buzz! oh no she is going to get my woody" we were alerted any time she even came in the general vicinity of them...
but daddy is a genius and after a while I walked into find this had replaced the anxiety...
ali had grabbed her jessie and daddy had convinced them to have a picnic...cutest daddy ever.
the anxiety issues over buzz and woody almost dissolved after that point.
and what is with this new stink eye face when I ask for a smile?
she kills me.
so now that cole was ready to share, it was even more adorable.
and ali leapt at the opportunity and laid them all down for a sleep over... 
buzz, apparently sensing danger escaped the first chance he got.
but it was ok because molly was there to occupy ali. ali was given this baby alive by her grandma and grandpa...my parents must be trying to get me back because it poops and pees...we will not be using that function. over all though it is adorable, she named it molly. she bounces it on her hip, tells us she is "so stinky" and changes her diaper. it wiggles (which freaked her out at first), coo's, cries, giggles, and burps...as well as makes sucking sounds when you feed her with her bottle. remarkably it's not annoying, thanks to an on/off switch.
my parents came up the week before christmas and gave it to her so she has had it a while and packs it everywhere...that's why in the video cole comes packing molly down for her...he was trying to save time and get her down faster!
it was a wonderful weekend...I mean look at their faces.
we had a very peaceful weekend at home and the kid's got to help us do some things to help santa get to some other kids which made christmas a special time. we had a turkey dinner, watched movies, went to the park, and thoroughly enjoyed each other. cole and ali helped us tell the story of Christ's birth and although we were not there to see Jesus recieve his gifts of "gold and merb" as cole calls it, we felt truly blessed to know what happened that special night, that made it so we can enjoy our family like we did this holiday, throughout eternity.
