Sunday, December 26, 2010

Christmas is here!


Santa was good to Joey.

Tanner's first Christmas was a hit!


















3 monkeys looking in a mirror ^

















Joey helped Tanner open his gifts. He was a big help. :)



































Thanks Mom and Angie for the boys' presents you mailed to us. They would have been fine waiting till we got to Asheville, but they (and we) really, really appreciate it. They loved all your gifts!












Today (the day after Christmas) we got inches and inches of snow.


Tanner turned 8 months old today. He's still not crawling, but close. He's not saying Ma-ma yet, but Joey was over 9 months, I think, before he started saying it.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Birthday cake, naps and fun times!

Earl and Joey got me a Coldstone ice cream cake for my birthday today. Joey insisted putting all 32 candles on the cake.

After Tanner finished his bowl, he went after Joey's.








Tanner loves these little bottles of juice we give him sometimes.



Joey decided to wake up before 4 a.m. one morning. He was crashed by 3 p.m.^



Daddy and his 2 boys.

Tanner wants so bad to be crawling! Soon!





These are some of Joey's Zhu Zhu collection. This is most of his tunnels and a good chunk of his hamsters. We have really gotten our money's worth of these toys.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

My son, the author

Joey's newest obsession (other than dinosaurs) is making books. He makes many books, a few a day sometimes. He makes all the pages himself, then brings them to me to straighten up and staple together. Here are some of them (only some):

It started with the spanish numbers one he made at school. Since then he's created some very unique books with awesome names, such as "Oll Ki Uv Flawrs" (All kind of flowers), "Stop in Go" (stop and go), Dino Dan and more.

For his Dino Dan book, he often updates it with new dinosaurs. He draws the pictures and sounds out the name. Above is the Maiasaura.

Brachiasaurus.


His book titled: "Hoo has so mch fun"




"Hoo is gun hv Crismas"




One of my all time favorites ^ "Hoo wuch u babee" (Who wants a baby")




This is from his Happy Birthday Jesus book. It says, translated, Jesus has Mary. Mary is his mother.

He has a wonderful bed.



This is from his flowers book. It says, from bottom to top, Rose and regular flower.



Jesus will have a wonderful party today.^

Another shot of some of his books, such as "Mofs in budr flis" (Moths and butterflies), "Sxl Timu" (School time)



Dromeosaurus ^

^ Pachycephalosaurus.


"Hape Brfda to Jeesus"


These are the Brontosaurus and Ankylosaurus pages^