Christoher and Ellie looking at the Christmas I Spy book.
Personal home theater. Waiting for the rest of the family to wake up Christmas morning.
Ummm...thank you Uncle Jimmy for helping Christopher get started on his modeling career.
More "macho" shot with Daddy and Nerf guns.
Okay, back to the cars. This picture is a little dark, but he loved simply lining up his cars and bringing the Mac truck to come visit them and show them the new place to park.
Yep, he looks pretty cute all dressed up for sledding. This was Christopher's second time in snow but first time sledding. He had multiple layers of everything going on here. It was COLD!!
The obligatory family shot. Actually one of the few of us all together. Christopher's attention is still on the sleds. He wants to keep going.
Christopher had a really good time running around in the fresh snow with his cousing Ellie, and being chased by the "snow monster" who was so cold that he wouldn't take his hands out of his coat pockets.
Every time we turned around Christopher was trying to eat the snow.
Or he was falling down in it. And then trying to eat it on his hands and knees. It's sad how those Arizona boys can get around a little too much snow. It's so foreign to them, they just lose their senses. :)
Then we went to the mall the next day and Christopher worked on his funny smile for his picture with Santa, but it was still good.
And then he got to ride one of the reindeer that are visiting the carousel. Quite exciting.
Not quite sure what he's doing with his hand on this one, but he was pretty excited about the "TV game" (his name for video games) for the Wii that his daddy got for him (you decide for yourself which "him" the game was really for). :)
This one is fuzzy - don't know why. Three candles on a brownie. And he blew them all out himself while wearing Daddy's baseball hat.
Last week he and his friends from Joy School had a little Halloween party where they did a parade for the moms and then sang some songs they'd been learning.
He really, really enjoyed helping Daddy gut the pumpkin!
One of our neighbors had a skeleton costume from a few years ago that she let me borrow after she saw Christopher's costume at the Trunk or Treat at church on Saturday. So we both got to dress up as skeletons last night. We went to a neighborhood party by Grandma's house before coming back to our house, and that is where we got our faces painted. Christopher was not wanting to pose for pictures at this point. He wanted to head out for the candy!
Daddy got him to give us a good smile after we got home and before he headed to the bathtub. He had a really good time being "scary."
Christopher found some heart stickers and proceeded to experiment with body art.
In Flagstaff last month Christopher helped me get every bit of frosting off the candles from my birthday cake.
This one absolutely had to be posted. "Christopher lets Uncle Arch hold him." It was a "read" letter day. Get it? ;) This is serious progress in Christopher and Arch's relationship.
Back at home on my actual birthday, Christopher helped Matt put the candles in the cake and then he sang "Happy Birthday" very sweetly and helped me blow out the candles. Matt wore his SPAM shirt for the special day.
Then Christopher helped us eat the cake. And here began the great debate: use a fork or use his hands? It was a tough choice, but the hands won out. And then the bathtub removed all evidence of the crime committed against the poor piece of cake.
Christopher got to go horseback riding in Flagstaff this past weekend. The horse was named Ahab, and the guide put his own hat on Christopher for the ride. Christopher had a really good time!
