The 25 Days of Christopher- Day 7

What do you do when you promise a trip to the ice skating rink and you get there 10 minutes before closing time.... you have to go to the mall to ride the train. I hate the mall- especially at Christmastime. But Christopher's heart was just crushed. He had been waiting all day to go to the ice skating rink and we didn't even think to check the times for public skate. Oops. He loves the train and when we got home, he took off his shoes and "skated" around the kitchen. Best of both worlds.

Can we please get a nice picture together at some point Christopher?!?

All aboard!

 

Matt got Christopher his little tree. Not the one I would have gotten, but I won't complain since he went and got him one finally.

We had to take Nana with us. I don't know how to ice skate, so I told Matt if he wanted to take C then he needed to take a backup helper.

This morning they had the children's mass at church. Christopher went up there with all the kids.. and then turned around and came right back for me. He had some major ants in his pants today at church. Thankfully so did lots of other kids... full moon? God I hope not for teachers' sake. Our book for tonight was perfect for a Sunday...

The Story of Christmas. It was all about baby Jesus and the nativity and why we give gifts. Hopefully the next time C starts to play with his nativity people, he will make the connection.

 

We finally got to see the whole elf thing in person. Christopher was super tired when we got home- not that it's an excuse, but when he gets woken up before he wants to be- he is quite the bear. Anyway, he got put in timeout and was just a little punk. After about 5 minutes, I said, "I hope Whoa doesn't go and tell Santa about how you are acting." Bam. Stopped the crying, told Matt he was sorry, and hugs all around. Can the elf stay year round?!?!?

Hope everyone has a great week!
Be kind.

The 25 Days of Christopher-Day 6

For once Christopher actually wanted ME this morning when he woke up. He was calling for Daddy but when I walked in, he didn't push past me to go see him. Instead Christopher and I laid in his bed and looked at the stars on his ceiling. He looked at me and said "This is fun, mommy. This is fun on a Wednesday." Good try Christopher, but it's thank goodness- it is Saturday. After awhile Christopher went to get Matt to join us and came back with a menu and asked me to order him pizza. What a random morning it was.

Peace, Love and Pizza at 7 in the morning.. why not!

We had Breakfast with Santa at my school this morning, so we took him up there. Christopher has had no interest in seeing Santa or sitting on his lap. He has been asked and every time he says no, so I wasn't really banking on any lap time for him. When we first got there, he just kinda looked at Santa while in my arms, but as the minutes ticked by and he saw other kids up there, he became quite curious. He went up about 3 times, getting closer and closer until finally I heard "I want a green car." Matt got a great picture of him telling Santa what he wanted...

See the finger on the right hand. It likes to point when he means business.

 

And Santa convinced him to come up on his lap.

 

There weren't that many kids there so Christopher kinda had free reign over Santa time. Once he felt comfortable, he kept going up there and each time he would come back telling us that he asked Santa for a green car for him... and then a black car for mommy and a new car for daddy too!

 

Christopher was loving the chocolate sprinkled doughnuts! He loved listening to the kids singing too, but after song 4 he turned and said "I want to go home now." Thankfully they ended with "We wish you a Merry Christmas" which he knows so he was able to sing along!

 

We headed to Miss L's a little while later. Christopher took her a poinsetta for Christmas and Miss L had a surprise for him there too! She bought a giant remote control minion! Christopher was eating lunch in the back at the kid table and Matt and I were all the way at the front. She set the minion on the other side of the table and they sat together and ate lunch. We also learned while there that Christopher is not a candy cane fan. Miss L gave him a brownie with candy cane bits on it.. to which he took a bite and said to her "I not like that. I want that."... which of course "that" was a candy cane and we tried to explain to him that it was the same thing... but he had to find out for himself. :)

 

Daddy and Uncle are taking in a concert in downtown so Christopher spent the evening at Nana and Granddaddy's.

Christopher was helping Nana with the leaky faucet.

And of course we brought our book over!

Tonight's book was Let it Snow!

 

Hope everyone has a happy Sunday!

Be kind. 





 

The 25 Days of Christopher- Day 5

Today was Santa's arrival in downtown Acworth! It was way better than last year's arrival. There was so much going on- they had a live nativity, free hot chocolate, popcorn and marshmallows, dancing and singing, and a parade. If they had any of that last year, I certainly don't remember!

Nana and Granddaddy took Christopher to the mall today to ride the train and go to the Disney store. Once again, they asked if he wanted to go see Santa and he didn't want anything to do with it.

Having lunch at Chick-fil-a (apparently with every other mall shopper according to Granddaddy). I am pretty sure I see a new cup being used. Apparently someone got a new Mickey cup today!

After getting this picture today, I wasn't too surprised to see Toy Story on the TV when I got home from work.

Riding the train! Christopher has been to the mall and on the train more since mom and dad have moved down here than ever before.

Tired from riding the train and walking around the Disney store. It's tiring being 2.

 



Santa Claus is coming to town... hey hey!

Opening his new book....

The 12 Bugs of Christmas! The Twelve Days of Christmas is one of my least favorite Christmas songs, so I was none too happy when he pulled this one out tonight.

 

I tried to make this one extra short today just for Uncle Anthony.

Have a great night-

Be kind.

The 25 Days of Christopher- Day 4

Christopher spent the day with Nana today. I got to see him before I left for work though. I had the monitor next to me and when I looked in it, I didn't see him... but then I started hearing "mommy, i have to peeeeeeee. MOMMY, I HAVE TO PEEEEEE!" I went and opened his door, he peed and said "I'm going back to bed," walked in to his room and laid down trying to fall back asleep while I finished getting ready. The excitement of knowing Nana was coming over must have been too much for him because when I went to say goodbye, he bounded out of bed and ran downstairs to hide from her to scare her.

Christopher was dancing with the snowman.

 

I had saved a box of soft ornaments for the tree Matt went to get. Except instead of a little tree for Christopher, Matt thought he would like an inflatable snowman for the front yard. It's only like 4 feet tall, but I just never imagined a blow up in my yard. Anyway, C found the ornaments and put them all on one branch of the tree. He knows he isn't allowed to take the ornaments off, but there are two that he plays with on the tree- He takes the Derek Jeter ornament and sticks the ornament sized Yankees ball into his glove. "Look, mommy. He caught the ball." He does that a lot. And sometimes he gets Joseph from the nativity set to help Jeter.

 

"I picked the big book tonight!"

Placing the ornament on the 4th day of December. I think we are supposed to start with 24 and work our way back but this seems to be working just fine!

"Daddy, you comin read with me?"

It's the Polar Express!

It is fitting because Nana said they watched it twice today.

 

Tomorrow is Friday!!! We made it!

Be kind.

And a little song from Christopher to say good night...  please excuse the weird voice

 

The 25 Days of Christopher- Day 3

Christopher was up and ready to go at 5:30 this morning. One day he will regret not sleeping until he gets woken up. That meant we were ready to go to work/school way early (like 10 minutes but it felt like forever) and kinda sat around staring at each other until it was time to leave. He woke up wanting to build with his blocks. I hope he got in a lot of block time today at daycare! :)

Christopher took his Elmo book to share and when we walked in, Luke asked where the Lego book was. Christopher asked me to go home and get it for him. They must have really liked that book. Christopher discovered Legos this past weekend at Nico's house. Nico and Christopher were playing with Legos and building different Lego men... there was one in particular that Christopher loved. It also happened to be Nico's favorite. Thankfully, we were able to convince him to let Nico have it back after awhile and C made another one. When we left, he gave it to Miss Tiffany and told her he would "be back." Well, the first thing he said to me Sunday at church was "Did you bring my Lego man?" I guess we might have to get him a little set for here at home.

Yesterday when I picked him up from daycare and I asked about his day, he told me "Christopher not strong. I couldn't climb the ladder." Not sure what being strong and climbing the ladder had to do with each other... or even what ladder he meant. I told him Daddy would start working out with him to get him strong.

Christopher spent the night at Nana and Granddaddy's Saturday night- Where else would you get a hot dog, Doritos, a Klondike bar and Capri Sun for dinner?!?!

Cheese face at Mexican tonight!

Can I please have a yogurt?

We stopped by Nana and Granddaddy's after dinner to say hello play on the iPad.

 

And of course we rushed home for bathtime and opening our new book!

Tonight's book was The Night Before Christmas. He loved the "Dash away, dash away all" part. Loud laughter came after that. It could just be that I am a fantastic book reader- elementary school teacher and all.

 

As I was leaving Christopher asked me, "Mommy, wait. Can you fix Dine first?" (Dine is his nighttime sleeping partner. There is a Dine at daycare and at Nana's as well.) I guess at some point I should stop being surprised at the language he uses, but to add the word first at the end of that blew my mind. That preschool must be paying off... :)

 

Have a great day....It's almost Friday!! 

Be kind.

The 25 Days of Christopher- Day 2

Two days in a row!! :) That is awesome!

Today was such a fun day because it was Matt's birthday!! Christopher and I went to the store after school today to pick up a strawberry cupcake, ice cream and a card from Christopher. When we went down the card aisle I told him to find a card for Daddy's birthday. He picked up a pink one with Mickey and Minnie on it of course. I figured I could make it work until it said "happy 7th birthday to a sassy girl"... everything Matt is not. That would be a lot of crossing out and editing. Thankfully, C found a Spiderman one that he liked just as much and it described Matt perfectly.

Reading his card to Daddy.

Thrilling. Amazing. Spine-tingling.

 

"You have to take a picture with Daddy and finish that last bite before you get ice cream!"

Nana is a quick shove.

Christopher had a surprise under the tree in the foyer today....

Granddaddy built a train board and put it under our tree today! He is letting us borrow his Yankees train we got him last year for Christmas. Since Christopher loves playing with his so much, this is the perfect addition to our tree.

 

Today Christopher took a book with him to daycare. He shared his Lego Christmas book. I should have known there was no way he was going to take his Mickey Christmas book. When I left, him and Luke were sitting at the table looking at the pictures.. not sure how long that actually lasted, but it made my heart happy for when I left. Tonight we opened another book...

It was an Elmo Christmas book. Lucky Uncle Anthony got to be on FaceTime to see. This is Christopher holding it up so that he could see it.



 

Whoa showed back up at our house Monday morning as well. Christopher wanted to rename him ELF but once I said we would have to write a letter to Santa to see if we could change it, he decided Whoa was an okay name. Maybe he should have made a better choice last year on the first word he said when we pulled him out of the box. :)

 

And now I am going to watch the 25 Days of Christmas! :)

Be kind. (Did you know that I whisper this in Christopher's ear every day before I open the door to daycare? That's why I started adding it in here. And we say it every night in our prayers- "Bless the friends with whom I play, make us kinder day by day." I certainly hope he tries his best to be kind.)

 



The 25 Days of Christopher- Day 1

I am going to *try* really hard to do this.... 25 days of straight blogging with a quick little Christopher story. It should be easy because there is something everyday that makes me laugh or cry about him so I will just blog really quick to share it. While blogging is pretty simple, these things take a long time to write! Sometimes I sit here for over an hour: typing, uploading pics, downloading videos, etc.
Today's post will be full of pictures from the past couple of weeks. We celebrated Thanksgiving at our house- all 17 of us! It was a full house for sure- We had Aunt Nancy, Uncle Ken, Kate and Pap up from Florida, my cousin Kim and her family from Alabama, Matt's sister and her family, plus mom and dad. It was sad not having Anthony and Sara with us.... but they were enjoying time out in California.
Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving week:

Saying goodbye to Pap. Christopher loved Pap's Mickey Mouse pin on his suspenders. It is a golf ball face and then green ears.... Whenever Mickey was turned, Christopher would let Pap know that Mickey fell down!!

Heading back to our house. We had our final dinner with everyone at mom and dad's. Christopher got his bath there that night, pajamaed up, and we headed home for bed.

We had lost the little screw that holds the bottom of the tree together- Christopher was helping me put it on when we found it (when I stepped on it and hurt my foot).

Helping mommy and daddy put the star on. I think we stayed in our pajamas almost this entire day.

Helping Aunt Nancy and Kate break the bread for stuffing!

 

Kim has a little boy who is 5 months younger than Christopher. He was very excited that Connor came over to play with him. I think the boys had fun together!

Showing Aunt Nancy his puzzle skills.

 

 

We ran a race the first Saturday of Thanksgiving break. Christopher was listening to Matt tell him all about a good strategy on how to get to the finish line.

And he is almost there...! He got his fourth medal at this run! :) We were so proud of him.

We were building a tower for Mickey and all of his friends. I was much more into this than Christopher and Nico. They enjoyed it when it tipped over.

Playing on the iPad with Nico.

 

 

And so for Day 1 of the 25 Days of Christopher... we started our 25 books of December! Somehow he managed to grab the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Christmas. I think I heard "Mommy, it's my favorite" like 10 times... and then he wanted me to go get "my favorite book" to read to him. He is still super obsessed with Mickey. We met mom, dad and Christopher at church on Sunday and I threw Christmas Mickey in my purse before we left. I figured it would make him happy if he was getting antsy. During one of the readings, Christopher opened my purse, had the most surprised and happy look on his face... hugged Mickey, looked at Mickey, hugged him again... looked at Matt and said "thank you, DADDY! Thank you for bringing my Mickey." SERIOUSLY!?!?!! Matt handed the credit over and told him it was mommy's idea.

 

Here are our books. Mom was such a dear and at the end of last Christmas season she wrapped 24 books for us!! The good thing was it kept me from buying new books to wrap. We have these 24 and lots more on our coffee table that aren't wrapped. Holiday book overload. The bad thing is that I can't "guide" his selections because I have no clue what the books are!

Cheesing with Mickey!

 

And there we go. Day 1 of 25. That only took 35 minutes. :)

I hope everyone has a great day tomorrow!

Be kind. (Santa's watching.)