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! :)

 

John "The Elf" Brooks

So, my good friend Jennifer recently sent me an email with a link to the best website ever. It is one where you can "elf" someone by just adding their headshot to the video. She used several pictures of John and it is quite hilarious....so I just had to share. :) Beware of cuteness overload! :)

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/rf9pIBC4n7pk64jM

How to eat a Christmas cookie

I stopped by the Starbucks in Krogers yesterday to grab a gingerbread latte and a little treat for John before grocery shopping. Well he had his eye on their huge polar bear Christmas cookies and mommy decided he really needed one. What you can't see on the cookie is the red icing used to make the polar bear's scarf. He had that red icing everywhere as can be seen from the second picture. :)

Halloween 2009 (a little late)

Well, I seem to be running a little behind in posting the Halloween pictures this year.  But, at least it's still 2009 when I'm posting them, right? :)   Before it was time for Halloween, we talked with John about what Halloween was and that you get to pick something to dress up as.  When I would get catalogs in, I would sit down with him and ask which character he wanted to be.  Well, it was confirmed over and over that he wanted to be Elmo this year.  I knew daddy was just going to leap for joy when he found out John wanted the fuzzy red Elmo costume for Halloween...I mean, how much manlier can you get??? :)  Mommy thinks the costume is quite adorable and seeing the smile on John's face when he put it on the first time was priceless! The funniest thing about the costume is that the eyes and noes are on top of the head, so every time John bent over, it looked like Elmo was staring me right in the eyes...it got a little weird at times! heh! heh!

My big boy

This morning I dressed John in his jacket as usual and he always pulls the hoodie on (mainly because daddy wears hoodie sweatshirts and he wants to be just like him :)). Then he put on his backpack to carry some extra clothes to school since he tends to make quite a mess sometimes during art. :). It was at this moment that I realized what a big boy he's turned into and I had flashes of himself starting the first day of kindergarten! Sniff sniff...my baby boy is such a big boy now! :)

Flirting at 2 :)

We had a Sunday school thanksgiving outing and John and Lily were able to play together for awhile. They were pushing each other and falling down and they thought it was the funniest thing! Who knew flirting started so early! :)