Santa Time!

Our school district puts on a holiday party for preschool aged kids which includes some special time with the big guy himself - for free! The wait was long, but there were some fun activities to keep us busy while we waited. A special thanks to Dada, who came with us even though he is feeling a little under the weather.

One activity: shoveling "snow". William thought this was great. Mama had a hard time breathing with all the flying shovels in the air...
More shoveling. If you look carefully, you'll notice the snow has fallen off the shovel and onto William's right shoulder. He thought this was hilarious...
Throwing "snowballs" through the target. These kids behind William looked super familiar to me. Only after stewing about it for close to 2 hours did I realize where I knew these people from (this is Mookie and Connie from the park)!
Coloring craftiness... this activity lasted only .25676451 seconds before William was done. He was really only interested in coloring on the paper belonging to the little girl to his right. No interest in his own paper despite what this picture looks like.

More craftiness. Again, it looks like William is helping. In reality he is trying to spread glue over every possible surface. We learned tonight the child has a serious love of glue stick. Will do anything to get one. By the way, didn't I make a cute stocking full of toys for myself?
Mama being crafty again and William gluing again. Nothing will distract him from his glue. Note to the Grandparents: even though he loves glue, this does NOT mean he needs to find anything with glue in it underneath the Christmas tree.

And finally it was our turn to sit with Santa. I was so proud - he didn't cry this year either!
Who is this guy? Still not crying...


Although, to be fair, he wasn't exactly happy either!

PS The posting is going to have to slow down here for awhile and I put my cute little elf hat on to get us ready for the holidays....consider yourself warned!

More from the Cell Phone Archieve

Here are some more pictures from my old cell phone. These are from the day we took William home from the hospital (Jan 28, 2007). He is really bundled up because I think the high that day was around 9 degrees. More tomorrow...today was a lot of catching up with mail, bills, e mail, phone messages, laundry, etc.

Birthday, Etc

Friday was a busy day. When we are home visiting, there are a lot of people to see and a lot of things we like to do. Traditionally, the day after Thanksgiving, I put up the Christmas tree at my parent's house. This year it was fun because William thought the tree was AMAZING and fun to help with.

Friday was also Grandpa's birthday, so we had some celebrating to do! We had dinner and then opened presents before John and I took off to see one of my best friends from high school, Jessica. Jessica is due to have her first baby is about two weeks! So, we got in a long adult chat - it might be our last one for a long time!

The first piece of the tree

Look how excited he is! Ohhh!!!! putting up the tree!

Wow! He's never even seen us put up a tree or decorate one (we don't have a tree at our house).

William decorating the Christmas tree with the bungee cords.

Helping Grandpa open his birthday presents

Reading a birthday card with Grandpa

Grandpa reading his card from Ryan

Thanksgiving Pictures

Whew! Yesterday was busy! So, here are some of our Thanksgiving pictures! Unfortunately, I didn't get any of the food or table because I admit I was too busy eating. I know you understand. We very much enjoyed having everyone here and visiting for the day. After eating and a small rest, we pulled out the Wii and played some games. Which, I did get pictures of!

Great Grandpa bowling
William getting in on the fun...

Only he doesn't understand the idea of taking turns. It is hard to play a balance game with a little help.

William trying to ski. Unfortunately, he isn't heavy enough for the board to pick up him standing on it.

Which means he needed some help. Which, he was NOT excited about

Grandma, Ashley and Kyle bowling (actually, only Ashley is bowling)

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so many reasons to be thankful today. We had family together and a lot of laughing. That is all that is that really matters. The food was amazing and it was a lot of fun to watch William interact with all the different family members. He is a little confused on the terms "Grandma" and "Grandpa" right now seeing as there are multiple Grandmas and Grandpas in the house this week. Some are great grandparents, but we're not going to get picky about the exact titles. With 3 grandmas and 3 grandpas in the same house, things are bound to get confused. I'll be back tomorrow with pictures and maybe more - but we have a lot on deck for tomorrow also. More family, a few friends and Grandpa's birthday to celebrate. We can't wait!

Happy 22 Months!

William turned 22 months old today! Here are some photos to tide you over (although they aren't that great themselves) until the real blogger can add to this post.

William is checking out a bit of snow.

Picking up a snow ball.

Stacking the snowball on top of another pile of snow.

Help out the Hometown Historic Site

Mayowood, a historic site in my hometown is a finalist in a competition being put on by the Hampton Inns. If the Mayowood site wins the competition, they will get a lot of money to help with restoration, etc. Click here to vote for Mayowood!