Fun-Filled Week after Christmas

Quick potty training update: we have postponed it until next weekend. I realized that this weekend wasn't a good one to start, but I have a 4-day weekend with MLK day coming up so I thought that would be the perfect. We have no plans and can just focus on the potty training.


We did lots of fun things the week after Christmas since Wally and I were both off work.

We did a little bit of this...

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We cleaned up Toyland USA...


We went to a basketball game...


We shaved and played in the bathtub...




We visited the Museum of Science & Industry...


We rode on a school bus (the highlight of the Museum of S&I visit for Luke!)...


We went to Winter Wonderfest at Navy Pier...















We waited in line for a long time for a ride Luke was excited about only to not be so excited about it once it was our turn...

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We made silly faces...


We rode our new scooter...


Went to a New Year's Eve DAY celebration with a co-worker and her little girl...

Christmas Card Outtakes

It's always a fun time trying to get 'the shot' for the Christmas card. The one we chose basically portrays Luke's personality to a "T", but I really had quite a few other fun ones to choose from too!

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Christmas Day

Christmas Day was jam packed! We stayed at Grandma & Grandpa Zukowski's this holiday so that meant when we woke up Christmas morning, we headed over to my Grammy & Papa's. There were LOTS of presents to be opened there!



His own little nutcracker!




Luke even got his very own shaving kit!

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After Grammy & Papa's, we made a short stop at Great Grandma Hylla's and then headed over to Great Grandma & Great Grandpa Swanson's for lunch and more presents!



Logan, Zach, and Connor opened presents too!


Our final stop of the day was Aunt Kathy's for Kohr Christmas. Luke fell asleep in the car from Peru to Oglesby and stayed asleep at Kathy's for about 2 hours. Unfortunately, when he woke up, he was still crabby. It was a rough night for Lukey there. He got lots of presents, but wasn't really in the mood to open them so we did most of that for him.

Luke wasn't impressed with this present that night, but he is now!


Brooklyn, on the other hand, loved it!


He did however love Jake the dog!


And Lily too!


Lining up his new cars!


Brooklyn enjoyed the cars too!


Say 'cheese!' Luke!


Cousins shot!


And a sister one!


It was a very fun, but very exhausting day for everyone. Thank goodness our families are all in the same area otherwise our holidays would be even crazier!

Christmas Eve

After opening presents at our house Christmas Eve morning, we cleaned up, packed up, and headed to LP for the weekend.

We started the afternoon off with some sledding with Grandpa and Daddy.







Then we were off to church and had a visitor stop by just before dinner.



He took Santa right to the Christmas tree!










And then, of course, it was present time!!! Lukey got some cleaning supplies!









We had a great night with the Zukowski's - always full of games, fun, and lots of laughter!