Tis the Season

We' have a busy few weeks ahead of it!  Our celebrations started off with preschool parties and Sing & Celebrate!  

AJ seemed most enthusiastic

Looking forward to Christmas with the families!!

National Christmas Tree

Today we took the boys to go see the National Christmas Tree!  This trip was much better than my venture last year but they enjoyed it.  And of course, their favorite part of the day was riding the metro!

Spied Santa through the window on his break - not sure what is in his 'coffee cup' ;-)

Raking Leaves with Dad

Ben was a great helper last weekend and helped Seth rake the leaves.  Very proud of my little guy!!  

Ellicott City Train Museum

This past weekend we took the boys to the B&O Railroad museum in Ellicott City!  This is the oldest train station in all of America.  

Thomas wanted to ring the bell (Ben & AJ weren't having it)

 Model trains - Thomas style! 

They had a massive lego train display.  They had started working on this in August!  

More N-Guage

Thomas keeping busy by running in and out of doorways....

It wouldn't be a Sinclair outing with at least a little 'treat' for the boys.  Ben claimed it was his favorite day EVER (he says this whenever he is given any sort of 'gift')

Looking forward to coming back again soon!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Sinclairs and the Phillips' this year!  Nana and Gradpop hosted and it was a great time!  

Happy Friday!

Our awesome nanny captured this picture today of Thomas in her blinged out Uggs.  Poor baby is getting over a bad case of croup this week.  That aside, can we say CUTE?!

Halloween 2012

This Halloween we were hoping for a few less tears and a lot more candy.  Got a little of both....

 Getting ready to go out - not happy with his costume!!

Hi boys!  Oh, is Thomas scaring you?!

 There's always one....

               Captain America                                                  Thomas the Train

Hamburger (more like the candy burglar!  He demanded we immediately open every piece of candy he received at the door!  His first taste at chocolate and he was addicted.  Needless to say he crashed and burned early)

Aunt Sarah & Uncle Casey were so nice to come out and go Trick or Treating with the boys.  They managed to calm their nerves and get a lot more candy then we have in years past. Thanks for joining us!!

We also had some celebrating to do at St. Davids for Ben & AJ.  Here are some photos from their parade (Ben refused to wear his costume) and their class parties....

Captain America was popular this year1  Here are Owen & AJ flexing their muscles together...

AJ always makes himself known.... this was Ben's party.

Disney - Part 3

The last day we went back to Magic Kingdom.  By now we were pretty used to the fears of restaurants (AJ refused any other park dinning experience after his terrifying experience at Hollywood Studios) and just took our time riding dumbo (another 20 times), the Barnstormer, and the Main Street Train.  We pleaded with them to ride Big Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain but after Seth and I rode them individually we realized it was better they refused.

By mid-afternoon we were dumbo-d out and were anxious to get home to Thomas (who loves balloons!!)

We hit up the gift shop on the way out (the boys favorite part of the trip - outside the monorail!!) and called our vacation a "learning experience".  Mickey left the boys some coloring books for the airplane that night (each night he left them a T-shirt to wear that day at the park) so that was fun too.

The good news is the boys did fabulous on our flights and earned their wings.  I hoping this new found experience will come in handy on our trip to the beach next year.... ahem, Seth!!  ;-)