White Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year! Elkin had a great time getting his cookies and milk ready for Santa and carrots ready for the reindeer. He's come such a long way with his food issues and much to our delight didn't have any problems sharing the cookies with the big guy this year.



Santa brought Elkin a farm set this year and Elkin was a very happy boy.



Elkin loved lining up his presents from Mami & Papi and could barely stop himself from digging in before I could take a quick picture. I think his favorite was a Mack truck (from the movie Cars) and all the books he got.



We got a ton of snow on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning and we weren't sure if we should venture out to go see Grandma & Grandpa. We went ahead and went for it and made it there safely despite how treacherous the roads were. Elkin had a very fun time modeling his new "outfit" he got for Christmas from Grandma & Grandpa.



Elkin got some very cool finger puppets from Grandma Pat. Mami LOVES these finger puppets and puts on plays with them on a regular basis. Even if no one else is watching. Sigh. At least I got a captive audience for my first play.



We got stuck a few times while in Eudora so we decided to stay the night until some of the roads were clear. We got home to some pretty big drifts in front of the house.



Elkin had a great time sledding in the back yard with the sled we swiped from Grandpa.



Overall, despite the weather, we all had a very merry Christmas. Here's to many more!

Getting Ready for Christmas

We've been busy getting ready for Christmas! First we had a photo shoot for Christmas cards. We took them a few weeks ago and it was actually pretty warm outside but Elkin was a trooper. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the shoot.

This was the winner...



and here's one where he's laughing at Mami's toilet humor... (hey a Mami's gotta do what she's gotta do sometimes!)



and one more with him looking a little ornery.



We went and saw Santa at Grandpa Snow's work. We took quite a few pictures but this was the only one that didn't turn out blurry. This is Elkin "smiling" when you tell him to smile. Can you see why I have to resort to toilet humor??



His present was an "Ants in the Pants" game which he wants to play ALL THE TIME. He didn't really talk to Santa, just looked at him a lot. Anyway, I think he liked seeing where his Grandpa worked even better then seeing Santa.

Yesterday Elkin and I decorated some cookies. We had a great time! He was in charge of the sprinkles and did a great job. While we were making them he kept asking me "Is Santa going to love these?". It was so cute!

Here he is at work. (This time I told him to smile like he was happy - a little bit better anyway!)



Here's all the cookies we made!



Elkin had to test them out to make sure they tasted good.