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Christmas Daze

Wow, how quickly did Christmas go by?  We had a great time this year watching how excited Andrew was.  This is the first year he really got into the whole experience.

 

If you are thinking the smile on his face says "I'm doing something devious" you would be right, LOL.  Here he is "helping" daddy put up the Christmas lights by unscrewing the light bulbs - apparently hysterically funny when you are three!

Doesn't he look all sweet and innocent?  Andrew has been quite fascinated with the alphabet this year so in honor of that we spent a morning making alphabet letter ornaments out of salt dough.  Look closely and you'll see them on the tree.

"Happy Family" - Andrew loves to pull us all into a group hug while he says "Happy Family!" or sometimes he calls it an Andrew sandwich, LOL.  This isn't exactly the close hug that inspires the "happy family" saying, but it's a good Christmas pic anyway :)

Leaving some oats and glitter out for the reindeer to spot :)

Milk and cookies for Santa --- or were they for Andrew? He didn't look too sure!

Coming down the hall Christmas morning :)

Opening one of his bigger presents - geotrax train set.

Opening the gift he requested from "Santa" some Cars.

Playing with Geotrax - this is where he has been since opening it on Christmas.

I could insert a dozen or so more pictures... but I think you've gotten enough, and have likely fallen asleep by now!  We hope everyone had a great Christmas spent with family and friends :)

Christmas Cookies

We spent an evening at Grandma Lynne's house baking and decorating Christmas cookies.  As you can see... Andrew and Grandma were taking their cookie baking rather seriously!

 

and did not make any mess at all

 

Icing fun :)

Hey... it's a hard job, but someone had to do the taste testing!

A Family "Tree"

We live within walking distance of a massive banyan tree that is the perfect tree to climb and explore. Back in the 50's our neighborhood was an animal safari park and this tree and the water and red bridge you see in the picture were all part of the park. They surround an island that was called monkey island and people would go on a boat ride around the island. It is an interesting part of our neighborhoods history and makes a great location to get some good pictures. We spent about an hour (seemed like 10 hours!) trying to get a picture of all three kiddos. I know, crazy right? I think we managed to get a couple of good ones and a lot of good individual pictures too. We also have some pictures of Alex's birthday pan"cake" breakfast, and some pictures taken in our backyard. So without further ado.... enjoy the slideshow :)

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Hi Ho Hi Ho... its off to the beach we go!

Alternately titled, how to bring home a bucket of sand on your clothes. So I'm not sure why I thought Andrew would be deterred by coolish water and cooler air - apparently it is still hysterically fun to get yourself and those around you (namely daddy) good and wet! Note to self: next time put Andrew in a full body wetsuit, and maybe Chuck too!

It all started so innocently.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some nice father/son poses....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Until we turned him loose on the sand....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently it's contagious :)

Not Me Monday

This is my first attempt at It's Not Me Monday! A funny way to set the record straight. For a full explanation and to participate, check out my charming kids blog.

This week, I did NOT do the following things.

1. I did not lower the hurricane awning down over the window that is in Andrew’s bedroom in order to disguise the fact that due to the end of daylight savings time sunlight would now be streaming into his room an hour earlier – in the hopes that he would not feel compelled to get up an hour earlier! I did not take into account that he has apparently gotten smarter since last year and was not about to fall for it again.

2. I did not quickly throw a pair of jeans on Andrew to take him to the pediatricians office only to discover once I was there that I’d neglected to put any underwear on him! Thankfully he was just there to check for an ear infection and until just now this was an oversight known to no one else… well except for Andrew!

3. I did not borrow a pair of socks from Andrew (who is three years old) because I ran out of my own. I mean whose three year old has such big feet that I could get away with this? And by the way, Andrew does not wear a size 1 shoe and is not 44 inches tall, and does not weigh 52 lbs. That would be crazy right?

4. I did not string clothesline around my gazebo in the great clothesline experiment to see if we could actually save money on our electric bill every month by not using our dryer. And I did not tell my husband that we would look younger from all the exfoliating our now less than soft line dried towels would do!

5. I did not just see a gasoline price of only 2.29/gallon and declare it to be really cheap, and get really excited about it - because that would mean that I am so used to insanely high prices that what used to be considered expensive, is now in fact cheap!

A Big Boy Room

So we bought paint and decorations to redo Andrew's room with for his birthday - ahem, that would be six months ago!  Grandma Lynne and mommy spent the past two days finally getting the room done :)

So without further ado... here it is, I told mommy and grandma that it is great (repeatedly)