It was rainy and Stuart had to work the first few days of the winter break, so the boys and I just hung out together.  We mostly stayed home preparing for Christmas.  We baked cookies, decorated ornaments and made some crafts.  I got an idea online; I had the boys paint their hands on an ornament and decorate them into snowmen.  Logan did well drawing the details for the snowmen; he also improvised and added music notes since the snowmen were singing :)  Connor also assembled more gingerbread men that he bought from Michaels.  The boys sometimes get quite into crafts; other than what we did together, they decided to wrap a shoe box with some yarns and were determined to finish it.  I just sat with them to assist in applying glue.   We made some gingerbread cookies; the boys helped in rolling out and cutting out the shapes.  They enjoyed eating them too.

    For a half of a day, Logan spent time with a classmate and his dad.  They picked Logan up to go bowling at the brand new local Pro Shop and returned to their house to play.  Logan said he had a good time.  He claimed that he played four games of bowling with the classmate, but we felt that the number seemed large.  He did tell us that his arm was sore the next morning.  He had lunch at their house before he was dropped back off to us.  While Logan was gone, Connor and I did some grocery shopping to prepare for the grandparents visit and for Christmas.  While we were shopping, Connor wanted to get something for daddy and Logan.  We finally decided on a huge chocolate Kisses.  He insisted that he would wrap the presents on his own.  Later he also chose something while we were all out and asked Stuart to get it for me.  He wrapped that one too.  He was so excited about them that he had asked us a couple of times before Christmas if we wanted him to tell us what the presents were.