Trucks

Cass likes to carry around matching toys . . . for example, if has a block in one hand, he likes to have a block in the other hand. Or if he has a ball in one hand he wants to have another ball the same size in the other hand, you get the picture. Well, he got the Little People Neighborhood Friends set for Christmas, which includes a blue mail truck and a red fire truck. He has been carrying these trucks around constantly for a couple days now. He brought them to dinner last night, and he loaded them with some of his spaghetti. Then, they took a bath with him. I was able to snag the fire truck away from him before he went to bed, but he would not give up the mail truck so he slept with it all night.

Christmas

Here are a few pictures from Christmas morning. Cass enjoyed Christmas much more this year than he did last year! He has been playing with all of his presents non-stop since he opened them. Fortunately, the weather here on Christmas day was beautiful (almost 70 degrees!), so he got to go outside and drive the Cozy Coupe that Santa brought him.

Balloons

Cass has now figured out that he gets a free balloon when he goes to the grocery store. He entertains himself for hours running around the house with the balloons. Fortunately for him, I went to the store twice last week . . . once on Tuesday when he got a blue balloon . . .

and again on Wednesday when he got an orange balloon!!!

We actually went AGAIN on Friday, and they were out of balloons!!! Oh no!! Instead, Cass eyed a little stuffed dog that they had for sale (seriously, they find any way to tempt kids), so instead of a free balloon, I had to spend $5.49 on the little dog.

Bathtime Fun

Christmas card picture attempts . . .

Christmas snuck up on me this year. Several days ago, I realized I hadn't even thought about our Christmas cards. Since then, I've learned that it is nearly impossible to get a good picture of a 16 month old for Christmas. After Cass freaked out after we tried to get a picture of him with Santa at the mall, I thought I had a really clever idea . . . dress Chris up as Santa!!! I happened across a super cheap Santa outfit, so I bought it, and thought if Cass could watch Chris put the outfit on, surely he would let "Santa" hold him for a picture. Wrong. Very, very, wrong. As you can see from the picture above, someone is missing. He wouldn't even get close to big, scary, red Dad. So, it was on to Plan B . . .

We had our holiday party for my work Friday night. I thought we'd take advantage of being dressed up and try to get a picture in front of the tree. This time, we were able to get all 3 of us in the picture, but as you can see Cass wasn't very happy. So, this didn't make the cut either.

A couple years ago, Chris and I dressed our dogs up and took their picture in front of the tree. That was easier than trying to get a picture of Cass this year. We finally got some "action shots" in front of a big tree in Chris's office that we're going to use. They will just have to do. And let's hope Cass doesn't remember that Santa isn't just Daddy dressed up in a big red suit. :)

New Coat

A few weeks ago, a friend of Chris's called and told him that Target.com had Britax carseats (which typically sell for $229) on sale for $45. So, of course we got on line and ordered one, and I emailed several of my "mom friends" to let them know about the great deal (some of you blog readers got that email). Well, the saying "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" certainly is true, because Target sent me an email a few days later and said that it was a pricing error and they couldn't sell it to me at that price. However, they offered to give me a $25 gift card, and by me accepting it I would agree to not bring any litigation against Target (as if I would sue over a mispriced carseat anyway). So, I put the gift card toward a winter coat, hat and gloves for Cass. It hasn't really been cold enough to bundle him up in it yet, but I did it anyway when Chris was putting our Christmas lights up outside so we could get a picture.

Christmas is coming

Christmas season snuck up on us this year - I guess it's because Thanksgiving was later than usual. Anyway, we're finally getting our decorations up. Here's a couple pictures of Cass "helping" me decorate the tree - as you can imagine, he took more OFF the tree than he put on.