They make me smile.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sharing a picture
I wanted to combine a couple of pictures of the boys since they don't cooperate together for the same shot. I discovered Picnik, an easy, FREE online editing tool. I'm sure I won't win any awards for my photo editing skills, and I have no desire to learn Photoshop or anything like that. But I love how this picture turned out and wanted to share it.
They make me smile.
They make me smile.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Of Shrek and Santa and Christmas Pageants
Justin is so excited about Christmas this year. He can't wait for Santa to come. It snowed over the weekend, and he said, "Santa's coming today!" I asked him why he thought so, and he said, "It's snowing, and snow means Christmas! Santa comes on Christmas!" I felt like such a Scrooge for telling him it wasn't quite going to work that way.
On Saturday night, when I put him to bed, I told him to be a really good boy, and that we would take him and Tyler to see Santa the next day. Sure enough, he got up on Sunday, and he was truly on his best behavior. Really, really, good, and that doesn't happen a lot right now. :) So we headed over to the mall in the nasty cold weather. When we arrived, Santa was on break. Bummer. But even that didn't faze Justin, he went into the EB Games store with Daddy where they passed the time while Tyler and I stood in line for Santa. Finally the time arrived when it was their turn to sit on Santa's lap. We got a decent picture out of them and then we started loading them back up in the stroller.
Then, Justin turned to me with this crestfallen look on his face, and said, "Mommy, Santa didn't give me any presents. He forgot. I didn't get anything." Oh my goodness, I wanted to scoop him up right there! The poor child had thought all morning long that he was going to see Santa, and that was when he was going to get his gifts! Tom and I explained that no, Santa didn't forget......he comes to our house on Christmas Eve and brings the toys. This was just a chance to tell Santa what he really wants. Justin understood, but he was so disappointed.
So far, I think Justin's favorite Christmas special is "Shrek the Halls." Yes, even ogres have Christmas, and we have been lucky enough to share Shrek's with him. Many times. Justin puts on his Christmas-themed pajamas, his Santa hat, and settles right down with Shrek, Rudolph, Frosty, whoever he's thinking about at the time. It's really a lot of fun to relive my childhood a little bit when we looked so forward to watching the Christmas specials on TV. DVRs are such wonderful inventions.....now these lucky kids (and their parents) can watch Christmas on demand, without being slaves to the TV schedule.
And finally, Justin performed in the Christmas program for his school this past week. Last year, he sat through the whole thing and didn't sing a line. He just sat there looking a little awestruck. This year, he was ready to perform. His class sang 6 songs, loudly and with lots of emotion. It was nothing short of adorable. About halfway through the 3rd or 4th song, Justin left his spot on the risers and walked straight up to the microphone, and started singing into it. It was one of the funniest things I have seen him do, and the entire audience guffawed. It's not a moment that his father or I will forget soon!
Christmas is going to be fantastic this year. It already is.
On Saturday night, when I put him to bed, I told him to be a really good boy, and that we would take him and Tyler to see Santa the next day. Sure enough, he got up on Sunday, and he was truly on his best behavior. Really, really, good, and that doesn't happen a lot right now. :) So we headed over to the mall in the nasty cold weather. When we arrived, Santa was on break. Bummer. But even that didn't faze Justin, he went into the EB Games store with Daddy where they passed the time while Tyler and I stood in line for Santa. Finally the time arrived when it was their turn to sit on Santa's lap. We got a decent picture out of them and then we started loading them back up in the stroller.
Then, Justin turned to me with this crestfallen look on his face, and said, "Mommy, Santa didn't give me any presents. He forgot. I didn't get anything." Oh my goodness, I wanted to scoop him up right there! The poor child had thought all morning long that he was going to see Santa, and that was when he was going to get his gifts! Tom and I explained that no, Santa didn't forget......he comes to our house on Christmas Eve and brings the toys. This was just a chance to tell Santa what he really wants. Justin understood, but he was so disappointed.
So far, I think Justin's favorite Christmas special is "Shrek the Halls." Yes, even ogres have Christmas, and we have been lucky enough to share Shrek's with him. Many times. Justin puts on his Christmas-themed pajamas, his Santa hat, and settles right down with Shrek, Rudolph, Frosty, whoever he's thinking about at the time. It's really a lot of fun to relive my childhood a little bit when we looked so forward to watching the Christmas specials on TV. DVRs are such wonderful inventions.....now these lucky kids (and their parents) can watch Christmas on demand, without being slaves to the TV schedule.
And finally, Justin performed in the Christmas program for his school this past week. Last year, he sat through the whole thing and didn't sing a line. He just sat there looking a little awestruck. This year, he was ready to perform. His class sang 6 songs, loudly and with lots of emotion. It was nothing short of adorable. About halfway through the 3rd or 4th song, Justin left his spot on the risers and walked straight up to the microphone, and started singing into it. It was one of the funniest things I have seen him do, and the entire audience guffawed. It's not a moment that his father or I will forget soon!
Christmas is going to be fantastic this year. It already is.
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