Look what Santa Brought!

Santa came a little early this year since we'll be in Mobile Christmas morning. Boy was Maddox surprised at what he left for him!

The big hit was of course the wood train table and the remote control choo-choo! He had a blast playing with it...so much so that he refused to open any other presents for a while. I finally bribed him into opening other gifts by giving him bites of cinnamon roll in return. Sometimes you do what you gotta do! :)

Here is Maddox admiring his choo-choo and watching it drive by itself around the tracks. He was pretty mesmerized!

Creating a Mr. Potato Head masterpiece!Yay for Potty Time with Elmo! This book has real flushing sounds and everything so Maddox really liked it. We are hoping it will get him prepared for what's the come this summer (hopefully).
Oh look....a brand new tee ball set!
And a special gift that Daddy picked out and has been wanting to get him...a metal Tonka dump truck (or "big truck" as Maddox likes to call it). Maddox loves pushing it around the house!What a sweet blessing this little man is! Since Maddox is so much bigger this year he has really been able to get in there and show his excitement over everything going on. It has been so much fun to watch! He is such a special boy and we are so blessed to be his parents!

Visit with Santa

We had a rather unsuccessful trip to see Santa this year. I figured it would go that way since it seems like most 1-2 year olds want nothing to do with Santa. Well, Maddox was no different. When we were in line he would point at him and say his name, but he refused to let Blake put him on his lap. I even tried to bribe him with a cookie, but that didn't work either. He had a great time running around the store looking at the model trains and remote control trucks and cars though. He even got to sit on a "big truck" as he calls it. Hopefully next year we can get a real picture with Santa though!

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Maddox's class had their Happy Birthday, Jesus Christmas party today at school. Blake and I both went and had so much fun. They ate pizza and decorated cookies with icing and sprinkles. Maddox really enjoyed the sprinkling. Afterwards Maddox had fun showing us everything around the room and we even went to the big playroom with him for a little while where he ran around like a maniac. Ms. Tara even went and got the big ride on Thomas train for him to play with because it's his favorite. He had a such a blast and now we have a wonderful Christmas break to look forward to together!

First Haircut

Well Maddox finally had his first real haircut this evening. I know, I know...it's about time! I just haven't been able to bring myself to cut off his sweet little curls. His hair has gotten a little more than unruly though lately and was just all over the place so we decided to break down and do it. We took him to a place close to home called Hair Force because they have a little airplane they let them sit in and we thought that might help him do okay (to be honest we pretty much thought the whole thing was going to be a disaster). We put him in the airplane and enjoyed it for a minute, but he pretty much went ballistic as soon as the lady touched him. So we had to resort to Plan B, sitting in Daddy's lap. Surprisingly, he did very well. He was extremely somber and serious throughout the whole thing, but he never cried and he stayed very still. All in all, a success. And fortunately, his hair is still trying to curl up again in the back, so we haven't lost those sweet little curls just yet.

Here is a before shot of him checking out the airplane (before the lady touched him).

Before shot of the back of his head with his curls all brushed out. It looks so long without the curls.
Safely sitting on Daddy's lap. Notice his sad little lip in this shot. He never cried but he was visibly saddened by the whole ordeal!

Still a little unsure here.

I gave him a little sucker thinking it would take his mind off things, but he just stared at it the whole time and never would even lick it until we walked out the door. That probably was for the best because it most likely would have ended up with stray hairs all over it if he'd eaten it during the haircut.

Hooray, we all survived! That wasn't so bad after all. Maybe the dentist won't be as bad as I'm envisioning it being...yeah right!

Decorating the Tree

We decided to go ahead and put up our tree this past weekend. Maddox enjoyed helping decorate with "balls", but the only problem was that he liked bouncing them on the floor. We gave him the very inexpensive (and non-glass) ones to put on the tree. He was so funny...he would walk over and set it on the branch and clap. When one bounced to the floor and made a funny sound he liked that so then he started bouncing them on purpose. There were a few casualties over the course of the decorating process, but we only had to run the vacuum a few times so it wasn't too bad. I did have to rearrange the ornaments after he was done helping and I made sure to put the valuable and breakable ones toward the top, but all in all he was a good little helper.