Thursday marked five months since The Big Move. Time has sure flown by. We've learned and grown a lot and have had a lot of fun during that time. He is very social and friendly - loves interacting with anyone who interacts with him. I know he will love the workers and kids at daycare when I have to go back to work. I'm not the least bit concerned about that. I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of being home with this precious little boy. It has been so special for me.
We put up and trimmed our tree last Sunday afternoon. It's been a bit of a tradition over the last eight years to watch The Polar Express the night we trim the tree (yes, I still ask Brady to stick to this tradition and he is very gracious about humoring my sentimental whims). So, we sat down as a family to watch it and this little boy had never sat so still for so long. He loves trains and music and the combination (plus his soother and blanket) seemed to be a huge hit. It was a lovely family time together.
We had fun trimming the tree, him mostly laying the ornaments on the branches and just so enjoying looking them all over. He especially liked the "Sasa" ones, he seems to really like Santa already :) My mum gave him an ornament that we were able to put his picture in, which he liked a lot too.
He likes to look at and touch the ornaments but seems to be happy to just do that. We put all the glass ones up higher just incase there was some rearranging he might want to do, but so far he seems to like things where they are I guess.
Yesterday we had a playdate with two-year-old twins Austin and Ryan (their dad was one of Sherman's groomsmen in our wedding). That was so much fun - three little boys and enough loaders and dump trucks and diggers to start their own construction company. Then last night we went to the community tree lighting. His little friend Keekee (Keely) was there and they had gingerbread boy cookies. As soon as I took out my camera though, he wanted to take off so I only got the one pic but thought I'd share it.
Today marks the countdown to Christmas so we started his advent calendar this morning. I tried to explain how each morning he will move the snowflake into the next pocket until we get to 24, then Santa will come. He took it all in and seemed intrigued by it all. Both of the boys have chocolate advent calendars too, but trying to explain opening only one door for one chocolate square a day seemed a bit harder for some reason. There was also a new Elmo's Merry Christmas book waiting on the coffee table for him when he got up from his nap today, a little Christmas season kick-off gift. He loves "Melmo". He had to take the book to the rink with us at suppertime to show Keekee. We also have lights and decorations up in his bedroom and so things are pretty festive around here.
I'll end now, but I also wanted to include a picture of him fishing in his "boap" because its just too cute for words!
