Christmas

Thankfully we have a little boy who likes to have his sleep.

We didn't get up until 8:00pm.

Running down the stairs.

Santa drank his cocoa and ate the cookies and the Reindeer ate the carrots.

Santa also left breakfast for a little boy.

He was very excited for his tiny little cereal boxes.

And Riley was not so excited.

Steven had to feed him by hand.

I had stockings hanging all over the room and when John ran down the stairs, he ran over to the stockins hanging by the fireplace.  (which by the way, I didn't fill).  Dawna said he saw that they were empty, smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand and remarked "Oh No!" that they were empty.  Poor guy.  Then he saw the real stockings.

Merry Christmas!

Here's John yelling into his new walkie talkie.

Yipee!  Cutting with his new scissors.

 Hey Mrs. Huh-wiggins.

Rowr!

Why oh why do we buy expensive toys?

Santa present!

do ya think he loves it? 

Geez how happy is he? 

Helping Riley open a gift.

Poor Riley.

Way to supervise the toddler.

I leave the room and they maul Riley.

It's like Riley-jenga.

Wow, tough day.

Couldn't find a gingerbread house, had to settle for a gingerbread train.

  

Helping dad build the Christmas train table from Santa.

He told Steven that building the table was the best part of Christmas.

Train table!

Merry Christmas!

Alright, I realize that it's March but c'mon, at least I'm posting pictures. 

Random

It's not that I'm going out of my way to be a bad blogger but I just haven't had the motivation to write.  I also haven't had the time.  It's been awhile since I've had to drag out the laptop.  Since I haven't been super busy with work, I haven't had to bring anything home and I have been able to pay all my bills using my iPad instead.

So anyway.

And then in spare time, we hang out.  I hang out with my best friend.  Is it sad that John is my best friend?  Don't worry, I know it's sort of pathetic.  I'm am totally taking advantage of the fact that he LOVES hanging out with me right now.  I imagine that he will scorn me in a couple of years.

These bath pictures were taken over the Christmas break.

Wouldn't you love to have skin complexion like this?

And these eye lashes?

Christmas Eve

He is the best dressed toddler.  Actually truth be told, he's the best dressed person in the household.

Really, who doesn't want to wear a dress hat and tie with Jammies to make breakfast?

See what I mean?

He's totally the best dressed. 

This is me not showered and wearing most likely the same clothes from the day before. 

We wrapped Riley's present.

John wrote the tag himself. How adorable is this?

It is absolutely amazing how fast John picked up on how to use the iPad.

Christmas at the Mothership.  Do you know why?  Because we have John.  It's very important to me that John wakes up in his own bed on Christmas morning.  I might rethink this position when he gets older and my bones get older and start craving warmer weather instead...but for now it's all about John.

Cindy came up on Christmas Eve.  What a great auntie.  John made her sit in the "boat".  And then he loaded all the animals onto the boat.  Hey, it's the ark.  I never made the connection before!

The he abandoned her in the middle of the "water".

But at least he left an oar for her to paddle out.

Fast forward....Christmas Eve night.

We were tracking both Santa and Auntie Two & Whitey.

Just as we were getting John ready for bed we heard them at the front door.

Then we wrapped Christmas presents and placed them under the tree.  Man, he's so spoiled.  Steven & I don't exchange gifts so 99% of these are for John.

My boys.



Christmas Crafts

Alright, so I'm a big believer in doing crafts with John.  We paint or draw or glue stuff.  But on holidays, it's always takes on a "sweat shop" type feel in the house.

I have John make ornaments or other knick-knack to send out to people.

And yes, I realize that no one received their Christmas ornaments from John this year.  Well actually, there was one person who did get their ornament....Grandma Helen.

I'm not exactly sure what happened this year.

No poem.  No ornaments.  No cards.  Sorry.

Merry Christmas!



I Miss Summer

I miss summer.  I mean, so far winter has kicked ass.  But to me, this is summer.

And to be honest, these pictures were taken in September.

This is just another day of John & dad while I was at work.  Sometimes, it makes me sad to think that I miss stuff like this.  But then again, I'm happy that John has the opportunity to do stuff like this.

If he was in daycare, he wouldn't be able to do stuff like this.