Christmas Lighting at Peddler's Villiage, Lahaska, PA = 11/2009

We took a trip up to Lahaska, PA, to see Peddler's Villiage's Christmas Lighting Celebration. Its actually pretty cool, which say a lot for me to say that because I usually shy away from all things popular and trendy...but this is a pretty nice gig for a gig that is both popular and trendy. Plus, Christopher loved it. He got to hang out with Mommy and Daddy...even Nana Marianne came along for the ride. He got to ride on Daddy's shoulders for much of the trip, which was a blast (mostly for him...he's a tank, so Daddy had quite a neck ache in the morning). It really made the trip worth dealing with the traffic and the incredible mass of people to see Christopher's face light up with wonder when they powered up the Christmas lights. He was completely shocked and amazed and kept saying "WOOOOOOOOW" over and over again. All-in-all, a great trip for us to take and one that will continue as long as Christopher enjoys it as much as he did...definitely a sacrifice that I'm willing to endure again and again for him.

Christopher just before the Peddler's Village Christmas lights "power up"

Christopher's "WWOOOOOOWW" right after the lights "powered up"

Bubbles with Kaylee and Max

We got some surprise visitors Sunday afternoon -- Actually, Christopher got some surprise visitors Sunday afternoon.  Aunt Chris walked over to our house from their house (they live around the corner from us) with Kaylee and Max.  Kaylee found some bubble mix and the bubble fan-gun that we had bought for Christopher for the summertime (which will be the only gun that Christopher will have in my house if I have anything to say about it!).  The kids spent about an hour playing with the bubbles: Kaylee dipping the bubble fan-gun in the bubble mixture and Christopher and Max running around my back yard chasing the bubbles.  It was very, very cute stuff and had to be photographed and documented for prosperity's sake.

(p.s.: don't mind the leaves, I'll get to them this weekend)

Christopher's First Haircut

BEFORE

We took Christopher to Feasterville, PA, to get his hair cut.  It had finally gotten to a point where it was just taking too long to get his hair "did" in the morning.  Moreover, it was to a point where it didn't really matter what we tried to do to his hair...it was just a hot mess.  We finally did some checking around and found this neat little children's hair cuttery in Feasterville, PA (about 15 minutes from my house) called Kids Kuttery or something like that.  They had neat little childrens' seats in place...Christopher was in the car, but they also had a motorcyle and an ATV (4-wheeler) there as well as cartoons on at every station (they also had regular seats too...appropriately sized for their clientele, of course.   I have to admit, though, that we were a little apprehensive when we arrived because the place looked a little on the shady side from the outside...and one of the hairdressers was outside smoking, which doesn't really bother me so much, with a look on her face that gave us the impression that she hated her life.  We ended up with her as Christopher's beautician.  I have to admit that I was too quick to judge her.  She ended up being very nice and, more importantly, very patient and did a great job with his hair...

The bottom line is that his hair is no longer a hot mess, and we were able to retain the curls a bit. Everyone was happy.  Best of all, the cut only cost us $10!  Cha-ching!  Enjoy the pictures.

                      

                 

AFTER

The Emporer's New.....uhm....Coat?

No explainations needed...

Christopher Has Conquered His Fear of Balloons

Christopher has been intrigued by balloons for quite some time now. Anytime we pass one wafting in the air he yells out "bayoon?" "bayoon?" "bayoon?" (repeat between 3 and 10 times depending how long the balloon is within sight). The problem was that when we tried to give him a ballooon or have him hold one, he would scream and slap the daylights out of it to get it away from him. Well, our son has officially broken himself of his fear of balloons and I have it here on record...








All Done....

Halloween '09

Our original idea was to make a convict costume for Christopher -- you know, the old black and white stripes, ball and chain hook-up on the ankle, and the prisoner number (we were going to use his birth date as his prison number). The problem with the concept came twofold. We couldn't find a costume online or at any local stores his size (although we did find a ball and chain at a local Halloween store). Nor could we locate any solid white or black sweatshirt/t-shirt/pants combination to make the costume. We searched high and low...ending up at K-Mart (sorry -- Big K) where we found this cute hippo costume and put it on him thinking to ourselves, "boy, this is going to be completely rediculous." We were wrong...it ended up being a better idea than the convict/prisoner idea. Here are the photos we got of him in his costume. Enjoy.

Just Cute Pictures

Cute pictures while Daddy was vacuuming the living room....



More cute pictures of Christopher and Pook hanging out playing the piano...

For the record, I can't stand that cat, but we've grown to tolerate one another so as not to destruct our symbiotic and semi-well functioning nuclear family.