Christmas in Austin

We spent Christmas in Austin with Amy's side of the family. Her brother and his family were in town from Seattle. We spent several days hanging out with the family and eating a ton. The Baker 5 had a list of places they wanted to eat at while in Texas so we knocked out a lot of those including Pappasitto's, Rudy's, and Phil's Ice House.

After the kids did so well sleeping in Dallas, Amy wanted the four of us to sleep at her parents so we would have more time to hang out with the family. Grammie and Poppa have a room with two cribs in it and Amy and I slept on an air mattress between the cribs. Overall, the kids did a pretty good job sleeping. They woke up a little earlier in the mornings and struggled to nap but it went better than we expected.

The kids received some great toys. The highlights include a couple of toddler shopping carts and a gigantic indoor playscape from Grammie and Poppa. The Baker 5 gave the twins a cool wagon (which Ella was very excited about giving).

Here are a few videos I took over Christmas. I'll post some pictures later. You might notice most of these videos are of Caden. Don't think I'm playing favorites. :) Caroline was sick over Christmas and did not want to do a whole lot of playing. She is feeling better now and has been playing will all her new toys.

Here is Caden playing on a recorder. Thankfully, this was a gift given to one of the Baker kids. Just in case anyone is wondering, we never want Caden or Caroline to be given a recorder. :) We heard this sound a lot at Grammie and Poppa's. If it was an older kid making this racket, we could have told them to stop.


Caden also had a lot of fun playing on an electronic drum set that was given to either Will or Cal.


Here are a couple clips I took of Caroline being a bully. I thought they were funny. On account of being sick, Caroline got away with just about anything she wanted. :)


Here is Caden pushing one of the shopping carts. The other cart was for Caroline and is pink and white. But for some reason, Caroline currently shies away from pink toys. With her being the more aggressive of twins, Caden is typically left with the pink shopping cart, or the pink chair, or whatever else Caroline didn't choose. :)


Here is Caden playing on the indoor slide/playscape. Both he and Caroline love it. They can climb up and go down the slide all by themselves. They are pretty good about taking turns and going from the slide back over to the rock wall. But sometimes, one of them wants to stop and hang out on the top or tries to climb back up the slide.