Valentine's (A little late) :)

Well, seeing that I haven't found much time at home to blog and post pictures, my postings are arriving a little after I had intended.  :)  One thing I wanted to share was about Valentine's this year.  For the last couple of years, me and my good friend Leah have been preparing Valentine's baskets for our little ones that are from each kiddo.  So John gives one to Lily and Lily gives one to John.  We received the cutest basket from Lily this year that had the most adorable pictures and I just had to share!! Also, please note that they will be married one day, so we are just helping them start the "dating" a little early.  :) (my scanner was acting goofy, so forgive me for the extra large white space around the picture).

Picture Day!

John recently had picture day at school. I thought he looked so cute so I captured a few photos. While taking pictures I had him practice a few smiles. He had quite a fee forced ones that made me laugh. Here's some of our smiling out takes. :)

                                                       Yay for pictures!!!!





                                                      Forced smile number one. :)




                                                       Getting better at the smiles!




                                                       That's my boy! :)





                                                       Looking cute!

Brushing Teeth is Fun!!

As John and I enjoyed bathtime and then teeth brushing time, I realized how much he looked like a big boy. He doesn't need mommy's help brushing his teeth anymore. Sniff....sniff. He was having lots of fun and was showing me how he could brush all his teeth. The tooth fairy came to his school last week and brought new excitement to brushing your teeth. Love it! Funny thing is that she was wearing a poofy, sparkly blue dress and John's teacher said he was trying to peek under it. I'm sure it was to see what made the dress poofy! :). That's my boy!

Snow Time!

We had a great time with the Texas snow recently. We had 12 inches of snow and it was so beautiful! John had a blast playing outside. I had to lure him inside with a snack in order to make him go inside and warm up! I will be loading more pictures soon showing his "make-shift" snow boots. :). It's not like you keep snow boots handy in Texas!

Christmas Day Fun!

Looking at the cookies that Santa ate and the mess Rudoph made with the carrot and reindeer food.  :)

Coming out to see the choo-choo table santa left for him! He was excited once he quit actually looking for santa and noticed all the presents laid out.  :)

Opening presents with daddy.

 

Opening Buzz Lightyear! He was a hit!

Fun Buzz Photos

I LOVE Buzz Lightyear!

A photo shoot with Buzz!

 

Fun Christmas Time Pictures

Talking With Santa

 John recently had a visit with Santa Claus at the mall, and boy was he excited!! He kept talking about wanting to see Santa and had the biggest smile on his face.  We talked with him about Santa in hopes of keeping him excited about seeing him and not getting worried that we were handing him off to some stranger to sit in his lap.  :) When we talked to him about what he wanted to ask for Christmas from Santa, he said "a choo choo train."  He seemed very confident in this response, but we weren't sure if he could still be that confident with Santa or perform the "deer in the headlights" look that can occur quite often with strangers.

Once we made it up to Santa, Barry picked up John and took him to see him.  This Santa was so nice and looked just like the real thing (never stop believing! :)).  Santa asked John if he had been a good boy and he said "yes"...then he asked if he had been listening to his mommy and daddy and he said "yes"...after that the inevitable "what would you like Santa to bring you" question came forward and John proudly stated "a choo choo train!"  The photographer happened to capture this precious moment perfectly as you can see from the first picture...his little mouth is forming the "choo choo" portion.  What a wonderful experience for mommy and daddy...oh how I LOVE the Christmas season! Oh, one last thing...when we left Santa they gave him a bag with some crayons and coloring pages and John opened the bag and looked up at us and asked "where's my choo choo train?"  I guess we forgot to clarify exactly when Santa would bring him the toy.  :)  Oh the preciousness of innocence! :)