Frosty the Snowman...

So, after this holiday season, Frosty might be taking a restraining order out on my son. I mean the kid is obsessed! We can't drive away from daycare without him seeing the blown-up frosty across the street and yelling "Frosty! Mama, Frosty! Look, Frosty!", like he wasn't there every day for the last few weeks since Thanksgiving. Then into the chorus of Frosty the snowman... on and on and on. He received as a gift a Frosty the Snowman toy. Not just a toy, a singing toy.

I always tend to get him on the second go around and he isn't as into it. But his smile says it all

Our 2010 Christmas Tree

I loved it! David loved it! Christopher adored it! "Mama, Tree on please" EACH time we'd go into the living room and each morning he woke up.

The living room mantle

The other mantle

and our "other tree" in that room. It's our fake from when we lived in an apartment.

Happy (Belated) Holidays

Limoncello

David and I decided to do something "homemade" for gifts this year for some our friends and family. We started in in September when we got back from Michigan...

LIMONCELLO!!!

Oh my lemony goodness!

Lemons from our tree, Vodka from bottles and some simple syrup.... oh my!

mmmm.... worth the effort and the wait.

The Dicken's Party

Every year, my parents throw their annual Christmas Party that we call the "Dicken's Party". This is because once everyone arrives, we all gather for a reading of the Charles Dicken's the Christmas Carol. They serve Turducken (if you don't know what that is, look it up, awesome)which is one of my culinary highlights of the year. Here are some of the pictures from the evening...

The Tree!

Pop Pop and my little man. I loved him in that bow tie!

Olympia

(Christopher saw this picture when I was uploading it and shouted, Santa!)

Christopher and his new babysitter.

Mama and her boy

I love this one

The Christmas Carol reading...

All in all a ton of fun.

Happy 4th of July!!! (belated)

So we had a great 4th of July yesterday. We spent it with my cousins and all of their friends in Spreckles. Christopher went down for a great 1 hour nap in the morning, then the minute he was up, it was go, go, go so we could get there in time for the parade. We got to walk in the parade with a lot of other families and their kids and Christopher had a blast. After all my rushing, we actually had about 20 minutes to burn before we started walking. This proved to be a small problem.

Christopher is teething. He has not one, but both eyeteeth coming through and we think a canine is starting to cut. This means Christopher's normal long fuse for tired, hungry and everything else gets much much sorter. We got to their house, then took him in the stroller to where the parade was starting from. 5 minutes after getting there, Christopher had a dirty diaper, a smelly one. I had no place to change him, no car, no bathrooms, and tons of people. So I rolled him between two cars, dropped the back of the stroller and took care of the diaper. He entertained himself with a flag while I cleaned him up and we were soon back to waiting for the parade to start.

Christopher was really entertained by all the other kids.

The wagon that the other kids rode in

Daddy was all decked out

Then I went out on a limb and gave Christopher his first piece of candy, a sucker.

He wasn't too sure about it at first, but after mommy spent some time showing him what to do, he enjoyed it.

Everywhere

He only had the sucker for a few moments and yet got it on his hands, face, the stroller. Lovely. But he enjoyed himself as you can tell :)

And then we were off!

Christopher LOVED the firetrucks he saw.

David showed his spirit!

And pushed Christopher so I could take photos

He loved looking and waving at all the people.

The kids threw candy from the wagon.

And everyone just had fun!

Some of the other kids were all decked out as well

Including this trio, so cute!

David with my Aunt

I bet this guy is REALLY fun at a party.

David: "Take a picture of it, it's a delorian (sp?), it's from Back to the Future! Honey, you have to get a picture of it!"

There you go babe!

And then when we reached the end, we got to find a place in the shade and watch the rest.

Christopher loved the tractor.

And the kids who had already been throwing candy, started collecting it back up.

My Aunt and my cousin

I love these two goofy guys. They were both sooo into the cars.

While relaxing

And THEN, the firetrucks went by us.

He had to see them all

And then it was over and time to head back to the house for lunch.

Which David dove right into after I made him something to eat.

I love this photo.

And this one

Trying to teach him how to blow on it to make it spin.

Christopher's cousin Will

The dessert I made

After lunch, we went back out to see more festivities but Christopher was starting the fade. So while everyone was gone, I went back to the house to try to get him to sleep. He crashed, he slept for a hour and a half while everyone was running around the house, yelling and the kids were playing. He is a good sleeper, I'm happy for that.

Afterward, Will played some peek-a-boo with Christopher.

Who's there?

Oh, and not all of the cars made it through the parade succesful

You might be able to hear David in the background, "That's so sad, it's so beautiful" (something like that).

Happy 4th everyone!!!!!