Getting Into the Holidays!

This is the first year that Joey sat on Santa's lap without crying. He wasn't going to do it at first, but when he saw Santa handing out candy canes and Reindeer food, he decided he wanted too.
This was at Earl's Christmas party for work.

This is Joey and me after the party, posing with his new horse Santa gave him. He was so excited with that toy! He totally forgot about the candy cane and reindeer food, and just rode his horse all over the gym. He followed random kids around trying to get them to play with him, he tried to get in Santa's line again, to get another horse for another kid so that he'd have someone to play with (times like this I really miss our old friends at our old base).

He named his horse Joey.

You can see a little bit of my belly there on the right.

This was also the first year Joey did the crafts at the Christmas party. He made a stocking, a Santa face and a reindeer.

The other day we did Joey's very first gingerbread house. It fell apart pretty quickly, but he had a blast decorating it.

He still surprises me with how smart he is. He can write the entire alphabet on his own, pretty much. I think I just helped him with Z, W and X yesterday. We haven't really been working on that much, he just somehow knows. It's amazing. He's also figuring out how to do lower case and upper case and knowing the difference. He sometimes talks to the baby in my belly when I tell him too. He's very excited that he won't have to ride in the back seat by himself anymore once the baby is here.