Tons of pictures

Here are some of the great many pictures that I took in the days following Christmas. There are tons more, they had a lot of fun with all their new things!

The girls in their matching jackets from GrandmaIsabella's pretty sweater

Faron started putting together the kitchen from Grandma and Grandpa thinking it would be a quick job, an hour later he had his doubts!

Still working on it kids, be patient

Helping!

Ahh, we can play with it now. The kids play with this a ton. They are always cooking up something. It has a microwave and stove, and cabinets, so there are lots of doors to open, which Ari loves, and lots of pretending to be had!

Isabella, playing in the box the kitchen came in.

Faron, recovering from putting the kitchen together, and counting up the pieces out of the directions. over 150!

Playing and playing!

Grandma and Grandpa also got the kids this keyboard, which Arianna LOVES!

A set of little bitty princess books that get read and read and read.

Ari loves little books!

Alexander's new ride. Grandma and Grandpa got him this and it is not often left alone. If Alexander is not on it the Arianna is, and they both love it.

Alexander, sitting in the baby doll's bed and drinking it's bottle.

This is the toy that Grammy and Pop got for Arianna and Xander, it's a mirror that makes you appear to be on a stage, it has some instruments to play and of course a microphone.

All of the kids play with this quite often. Ari knows how to make all the different songs play and she goes over and sits down with it all the time. I have also often found the older girls sitting in front of it watching themselves sing.

Grammy and Pop got the girls a "Star station", it is like a kereoke machine, but it also has a video camera, so they watch themselves on TV, while singing, and dancing, and running all over the place.

Faron, trying to pretend like he enjoys the loudness of two kids with microphones.

Isabella's watching herself on the tv, jumping on the trampoline.

Uncle Gabe and Auntie Angie got the kids a drum set for Christmas. Angie was very sorry, but the kids all love it and with all the musical stuff the got they now have a full little band. Here are the drums before they got transported to the basement to contain their immense noise.

Sophia's a rock star.

Arianna has actually figured out how to "talk" into the microphone, instead of just chewing on it. She still chews on it most of the time, but when she wants to she can make noise.

This could be mother pride, but I thought it was pretty impressive when Sophia was playing.

Arianna does play the drums too, and if she finds a drum stick on the floor she carries it over to the drums and plays for a while, but her favorite is the keyboard. She sits on the little stool most of the time and plays and plays.

I don't know when Alexander has ever really seen anyone play drums, but he had no idea grasping the concept.

There is lots of playing going on around here!