Kids are so creative.

I was scrubbing the floor and Aaron was playing in the family room. Aaron started hollering "Mimi, a waterfall" and the first thing that popped into my mind was a pipe leak (particularly given our luck with such things). So, I looked in the family room and he had made a "waterfalls" out of the empty wrapping paper cardboard. Needless to say I had to quit scrubbing and play "waterfall" with 3 little balls. It was great fun, and he did it all by himself.

Kids are just fun, fun, fun

Poppy and Aaron enjoyed playing in the first snow of the season. They built a great snowman and hit Mimi with a few snowballs.

The Joke's on Me

Well, remember last Sunday when I went to the nursing home to decorate a tree for my aunt and left so upset because she kept talking about how she had danced with Elvis and he even gave her a kiss. I was sad all the way home thinking about how disoriented she was.....well the joke was on me!

Dora and Diego

It was a beautiful day today, so Aaron and I spent most of it outside playing. We had a lot of adventures. I had to call him "go Diego go" and he called me "Dora" Our adventure took us into the wilds of the jungle (otherwise know as the woods around the house) where we got lost (in our imaginary world) and we had to call Santa Claus to rescue us..(Aaron's choice again) We also ventured into a mysterious cave (his description of the 4 wheeler trail) that was dark and full of spiders. Once again we had to have Santa Claus come to the rescue. We ventured far and wide and it took days and days. Our adventure had to come to an end however, when we were trying to dam up the waterfall (the spring of water coming down the mountain in the switchback) and go Diego go decided to go wading and got his feet wet from the ankles to toes. It was time for a snack anyway :)

And while we were having our snack, Aaron got a call from none other than Santa Claus. He was excited and talked to Santa on the phone (It was a recorded message, that called him by name) So, this recording was telling him to be good a good boy and get to bed early on Christmas Eve and Aaron listened intently for a while and then said "Santa Claus, I am having a snack and playing a computer game, so bye" It was so cute.

We have had a very special grandmother/grandson day. Sorry I didn't take my camera on todays expedition...my bad.

Picnics are making me fat!

Aaron and I have a picnic everyday. I fix many things that I think that he might like to eat...AND I EAT THE LEFTOVERS! This has got to stop.

Yesterday his Advent gift was a big marshmallow sucker!

Usually I bring him home a kid's meal of chicken nuggets for lunch everyday, but I am off today so I just deep fried him some chicken nuggets. I apparently got them browner than the ones that we get thru the window, and he said "These chicken nuggets are dirty". He says the funniest things!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

Aaron got all excited when we were putting up the Christmas tree and would just start singing Jingle Bells and jumping around. He was a lot of help decorating!

He wanted to open presents, so we just put his Advent Gifts under the tree!

His Advent present for Day 1 was a wooden train. He really liked it.

His day 2 Advent gift was a monkey clacker. He didn't seem to like it as much as he did the train.

It is amazing to watch him play games on the computer. He is better at it than most adults that I know. He has totally taken over my netbook.

We enjoy having him with us and he is having a good time, but he misses Mama, Dada and Sarah and his room.