Christmas is almost here and this is the first year Kaiden is truly excited about Santa Claus. Aside from being a new threat I can use to make him behave, it's been really fun playing the Santa is real thing. My sister and I didn't get much of the whole Santa thing when we were little, but we sure understood that we got a whole lot of toys when Christmas came around.

Nate is now 5 weeks old and is a tough cookie to figure out. He's been sleeping 2-4 hour stretches but last night was unprecedented. He slept 6 hours all at once. It was so much sleep that Monica and I felt like we just woke up from 150 years in cryogenic statis compared to how it's been the past month. He's also turning into a spitting image of his Daddy, or so everybody says. It's kind of cool cause they say how cute he is and how he looks like me in the same breath. I guess by default I'm cute too?

Kaiden's first Christmas concert was last night and grandma and grandpa were both there to see it. It was really neat to see Kaiden actually behave for his teacher, who only needed to ask once to get him to respond. The effort by Mommy or Daddy to acheive the same result would be about 50 times that of Ms. Vicki. No respect for the parents.

I think the songs were too complicated for the kids to learn in such a short time. While Kaiden and the rest of the 3 year olds knew the popular songs, there were some song they sang that I never even heard of. It was super-cute though and I'm so proud of my son.

I think that's it until after Xmas so Merry Christmas. I'll let ya know how it goes!