Drew Discovers A Sippy Cup

During one of our Monday night dinners at Subway Jack decided to put his Cookie Monster had on Drew and let him try his sippy cup, which made for a couple of cute photos!

I'm Like Mr. Leo

Jack has recently made friends with Mr. Leo, one of the many "nice guys" that work in the facilities department at Kohl's and occasionally come down to the daycare to fix things there too.  Mr. Leo discovered last month that Jack was my son when he was over talking to me at my desk and saw his picture (Mr. Leo is also my friend).  He then proceeded to tell me how Jack is his favorite "little dude" in the daycare and how he follows him all around asking what he is doing and "is it broken?".  Then he tries to imitate Mr Leo fixing everything.  When we picked Jack up the week of Christmas break this poster was hanging in the hallway outside of Jack's classroom.  Too funny!   You can click on this photo to make it larger and easier to read.

Happy Birthday To ME!

December 5th seems so long ago already.  It was a nice uneventful day and I was surprised to receive this beautiful bouquet of flowers from my brother Ron!

Jack on the other hand was happy that he also sent 2 helium balloons!

Drew...well he is just happy all the time!

Drew Body Paints A Tree

All the kids in Drew's class participated in a little body painting in effort to create a tree decoration for their door.  Looks like Drew had a good time!

The finished product!  Drew's portion is toward the bottom left just above that last strand of paper rings.

Santa Photo

Is this one of the saddest Santa pictures you've ever seen?  Jack was SO EXCITED to go see Santa and tell him about all the power tools he wants for Christmas but once we got there he clammed up and was very unsure of Santa, even though we were the only ones there and Santa was being beyond friendly.  Poor Drew is just dazed and confused.  Oh well, they can laugh about this one some day...this was actually the best of the worst!

St. Nick's

So out here in the midwest they celebrate St Nick's Eve which basically means you do Christmas stockings (or shoes) the night of December 5th for them to find the next morning.

 Trying to navigate the obstacle course that has become our family room to get to his stocking.

 Taking in all the details of his Toy Story puzzle, which has really kept him busy this week!

Mmmm...resee's cups...my favorite!

Some mini m-a-m's as Jack calls them.

A fun snoopy that spins a crazy disco light, who knew that this would be such a hit?

 It's a blurry shot but had to share...do we have a couple of major thumb suckers on our hands or what?!

Thanksgiving

We had a nice low-key Thanksgiving and grandma Pat came to spend a few days with us.  Jack loved being on vacation all week, especially because daddy set-up Beatles Rock Band in the basement.

 Jack wore his turkey hat he made at school all through dinner.  He gave thanks for Boston Market's corn bread...that was all he would touch!

 Drew, as usual, was a very good sport!

 Jack was obsessed with grandma Pat's cane, you can tell that's all he really cares about here.

 This is what happens when I tried to get one nice picture of the boys and this isn't even all the takes!

 Somehow Jack thought this would be a good time to teach Drew how to fist bump.

This was the closest we came so I'll take it!