Visit with Santa

We went to see Santa last weekend. The boys were extremely excited and even ran up to Santa to greet him. Kemp had to bring his stocking to show Santa and Cohen even talked to Santa this year. Cohen told Santa that he would like a rocket ship and also told him that he would be in Minnesota this year instead of Maryland. When I tried to dress them in something nice, they told me they had to wear red because that was what Santa likes, hence the Nationals shirts. The boys are loving all things Christmas...Santa, lights, Christmas trees, cookies, Rudolph, etc. I've been working with the boys, especially Cohen, on giving rather than receiving. We had a major breakthrough on this last week when he asked to by some toy cars for his friends. He asked to buy one car for 3 of his friends and we went to the store to buy them, he didn't even ask for one for himself! Hopefully this keeps up!

Cheeks, our elf, made his visit after Thanksgiving.  Basically, Cheeks keeps an eye on the boys during the day and every night goes to the North Pole to tell Santa how the boys are doing. Each morning the elf comes back and the boys have to find him. They boys were so excited to see him! However, Cohen was disappointed when he woke up the next morning to find Cheeks in the same spot as the night before. Whoops! Our first night with Cheeks and we failed! Well, the deal with the elf is that you are not supposed to touch him or he may lose his magic to fly to the North Pole. I was able to convince Cohen that because they touched him the day before he probably didn't have enough magic to make it to the North Pole. Plus, Kempton threw him off our loft so he probably had lost a lot of magic from that! The boys haven't touched Cheeks since. 

That's all for now!

Love, 

Katie

Nationals Baseball game

I had this post sitting in my drafts and never posted it so I updated it and here you go! We spent the summer at lots of Nationals games. The boys absolutely going to the games. We joined the Nats Kids MVP club this year. It was $20 for each kid, but such a great deal! They got so much free stuff and buy one, get one free ticket offers. I was just really impressed at how great of a deal it was! Anyway, here are pictures from one of the games we went to this summer!

A video of them watching the players warm up

Dodgers hat..sheesh!

Free hot dog, with the MVP membership!

One of their favorite parts is the Presidents Race! Cohen always wants Abe to win!

The boys loved the game and loved cheering for the Nationals. On select Sunday games kids get to run around the bases after the game. Parents are not allowed on the field and kids are supposed to be from ages 4-12.  Cohen was so excited to do it, but I could tell he was nervous. As we were walking in the stadium in a very long line, I heard a dad behind us tell his kids, "make sure you touch all the bases or you'll be out." Suddenly, Cohen didn't want to do it anymore and it was because he was now worried about getting out! Ugh! I assured him that there was nothing that he had to worry about...all he had to do was RUN, which he is very good at. As we were approaching the area where you walk onto the field he was still nervous. Suddenly, Kempton just took off and starting running so Cohen followed him. We did it a couple other times this summer and they both LOVE it.

Here are a couple videos of them running the bases. It is so hard to get a decent video, as you can see! They are rushing the parents along and it's a bit chaotic!

Here's Cohen flying on in and Kemp holding up a traffic jam, because he wanted to give every President a high five! :)

We are going to the Nats WinterFest in a couple weeks, which should hopefully be fun for the boys! We're all excited for next season!

Love, 

Katie

Fall Festival

Last weekend we headed to the Fall Festival to pick out pumpkins and do some fun activities at Homestead Gardens. We have gone to this place the last 2 or 3 years and usually have a pretty good time.

One of the Cohen's favorite thing is the hay bale maze. Kempton was able to enjoy it this year without Mom and Dad walking with him.

Cohen was pretty happy that he was able to make it out

Kemp's happy dance after he made it out!

 

 

Next we took a hay ride to the pumpkin patch.

We walked around the entire pumpkin patch to find the perfect pumpkin that they wanted.

They thought that any pumpkin that was smashed or rotten was absolutely hilarious!

Especially Cohen!

Cohen went to look at this pumpkin and this is what he discovered, which, of course, he thought was super funny!

Kemp found a smashed pumpkin too!

Such a happy little guy!

They found their pumpkins!

Once you pick out your pumpkin you get a name tag to write your name on and then  you put in a box. Then the employees bring it up to the front where you pick it up on the way out. It's nice too because all of the pumpkins are $5 so it isn't based on weight as usual! 

After pumpkin picking it was off to the Jumping Pillow. Cohen was happy that he didn't get hurt this year! Haha. And we were happy that Kempton could do it all by himself (and didn't get hurt either)!

Somehow it went from Cohen trying to help Kemp to....

...Kemp tackling Cohen!

These two would have played there all day if we let them!

Overall it was a fun day! The weather was crisp but nice and the boys did a great job!

 

Love, 

Katie