Wrap It Up: 2010

it Started out as an innocent "let's make wrapping paper with finger paint, LM"... we did a few handprints, and i thought "let's change it up, and do feet"... and of course, he went for it...
Bext thing I know, he has his shirt off and I say, "What are you thinking?"
and he says "Let's Paint with my Belly"... Ok, you know what? Why in the world not? Sounds like fun!! So we get down to work slathering him up for "belly painting"....

Partially Slathered!!

...Roll It Out...

...Ta-Da....

...The First Belly Painting Final Product...

I do have to admit, things got a little crazy after this... Having given him the "Have at it and have fun" nod, suddnely I didn't have an unpainted hand, arm, foot, leg, belly, or toe around... he covered himself laughing all the way, and rolling his jolly self all over the paper and floor....and i was a wee bit covered myself so we didn't grab the camera -- but we did grab a bath! it was a really fun afternoon!!
Continued on with tradition and merriment...

... Christmas Eve, Visiting Papa at Work and Delivering Goodies...

...Christmas Eve Party at our Neighbors...

And, of course, Christmas morning.... After reading Santa Duck at least 500x this holiday season, he was all about what he would wake up to!!! We followed our tradition of 3 presents.. and he will tell you "I get 3 gifts just like Baby Jesus got 3 gifts"... He also will, to this day, play "I be baby Jesus, and you be Mary, Mama... and Papa be Joseph"... We had several interesting occassions where we were NOT Mary or Joseph, but rather animals in the live nativity scene he was playing out... There was one particularly funny afternoon shortly before the New Year, we were at a house with a sliding closet that was empty, and LM grabs my mom and leads her to the closet -- pushing her in saying "you be the cow".... it was hilarious and god love Gamma as she played right along as I stepped into the closet.. she asked me "Will he let us out?".. and I said something to the effect of, "This is true trust in one's child we are allowing him to put us into the closet, shut the door... and know he'll open it"....as we stood their mooing and neah-ing like cow and donkey....we were smiling.

...Christmas Morning Glee...

...the "Matching Shirts" Tradition continues...


Then came our Xmas day Hike!... Running down a pretty steep hill...
Amazed and giggling both that he didn't fall and that we let him run down...

Hanging Cool with the Younger Cuz'ns!!

We went bowling just a few days after Christmas -- it was his first time -- clearly he LOVED it!!

What? Strike an adorable pose? that i CAN do...

"It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere" End of 2010!!

Thanks for following along!!! It was a fun wrap up to a busy and fun holiday season!!!