Giddy Up!

Nothing quite as fun as riding a horse indoors, right?

random easton pics

Here are pictures from this last week of Easton taken here in our home. He and Woody are twins in the first pic... taken after bath and just before they went to bed together. Dawson gave him Woody for Christmas and Easton wrapped his arms around Dawson's neck and gave him a huge hug. He was so excited about the gift, it was darling! Second pic, Easton being trained in white chocolate pretzel dipping. He thinks Mommy makes the best chocolate pretzels and he was so proud to make them this time for our family. You should have seen him carrying the tray around and serving everyone when they got home. So cute. Third pic, wearing brothers glasses upside down like he always does. Fourth pic, him in his favorite rain boots. He got them with Christmas money and he loves them so much. And the fifth pic, is him playing with his new Kid Knex toys that he bought with his birthday money from Grandma. He loves them.

And in all the pictures you can see the scabs on his nose and forehead... especially the first pic. He fell down the stairs this week. It was so sad. He tumbled almost all the way down. I was downstairs and I heard him saying... "I'm gonna take off my slippers..." I think he must have stopped on one of the first stairs to take them off and lost his balance. Next thing I heard was him bouncing down. I made it to the bottom of the stairs to catch him. It scared us both. He's ok. But he got rug burn on his face from the carpet. Every time since then, he holds on to the rail as he walks down the stairs and reminds himself to be safe by saying, "hold on to the rail so you don't fall down", just like mommy has told him. Bless his heart.

Easton's 3rd birthday... Dec. 28th

He loved having a cars birthday party. He loved the decorations in the house and you could tell he felt so special that it was his party. He loved his cars cake, balloons, and each and every new car he got for his birthday. He loved having us sing to him. He loved dancing around to music with balloons that night.

He loves to hold up three fingers now when asked how old he is. I've noticed over the last few weeks if someone has asked him his name he has just held up the three fingers. ha ha. Like that's all they need to know, right?

Easton's cars are his favorite toys! He plays with them every single day... for hours a day. The first thing he does every morning after getting out of bed is head straight for his cars. Before I can even get him some breakfast he is usually so into his play that it's hard to get him to eat. In fact, as I uploaded the second to last photo into this post (the one where there is cake and ice cream on a plate in front of him, but he just kept on playing with his cars), I thought to myself, how true that picture really is of him. He didn't eat that birthday cake. He let the ice cream melt too. He was so into playing at that moment that I don't know if he even noticed that everyone around him was eating cake and ice cream. Which makes me think of this last Christmas morning too. Santa gave him toy story toys. Once those toys were out of the box he started enjoying them and playing. Then the rest of us started opening our presents under the tree. The boys tried to get him to open presents. He tuned them out. He was so busy making woody talk to buzz and so on... that we had finished our Christmas before we were able to talk him into being interested in presents. He was so into his play time, that it seemed he didn't even notice Christmas was going on all around him. It's so interesting to me. The other boys were never like that. He has a huge imagination. He makes his cars, and toys talk to each other and there is this whole entertaining show complete with sound effects going on if you just sit to watch.

He is still the best sleeper ever. Easy to put to bed. Sleeps in late. Takes a good nap. Gotta love it! He loves to sleep with Curious George. He is still attached to him. He loves to have us read books to him. Curious George stories are always his pick. His favorite cartoon is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. It is the one he requests over and over. He is not a good eater - or big eater. I think it's because he loves to drink too much, and because he is always so into playing. Right now, I'd say peanut butter and honey on wheat is his favorite food. Milk and Apple juice he can't live without. He hates to have his hair washed. It's going to be a big ordeal every time - crying and screaming involved. It's rough. He is strong willed. Hopefully one day real soon he decides that it would be ok to start using the potty. Because we have tried to potty train without success. He talks well. He is good at talking on the phone and carrying a conversation. Better than the older boys really... ha ha. It's true though. Aaron and I laughed about that the other day. If you've ever tried to talk to Dallon or Dawson on the phone then you know what I'm talking about. He loves to count. He is always saying, "Mom, let's count!" He loves to say prayers. He loves playing with both his tinker toys, and bristle blocks. He wants a car every time we walk into wal-mart, which he calls "mal-mart". He loves to sing. He and I sing "You are my sunshine" together a lot. And another favorite song of his is "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam". Speaking of sunbeams... he is one now. He is the youngest little sunbeam in his primary class with the dec 28 birthday. He likes to go to church. He wears rain boots every other day. He loves our cats, Spots and Oreo. He is an easy child. He entertains himself. He is loving and kind. He's a helper. He is my little buddy who goes every where with me. And I can't even imagine living my life without him. He has brought me so much joy. I am so glad he is my boy.

Shadows Hockey

Dallon and Dawson both got new hockey sticks and goals for Christmas. (They had about worn their homeade ones out). And they bought the rollerblades a couple days after Christmas with some Christmas money they got. They play hockey almost daily. They have gotten real good on their blades. Like I said in a previous post, they named their team the Shadows... and Dawson was really wanting to make them team shirts. So, one afternoon we made shirts. We used iron on letters and numbers for the backs. They did the ironing themselves and were pretty pleased with how they turned out. In the last couple pics is their friend/neighbor, Dylan. He is the one who has really gotten into hockey with them.

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Blue Hummer Limo.

Dallon had his first ride in a limousine friday. He was picked up at his school and taken to Incredible Pizza for games and fun. He earned it by selling magazines for a school fundraiser. He was so excited about this and worked hard to make it happen. Thank you to sweet neighbors, friends, and family members who purchased magazines from him to support him and his school.

Easton and I drove over to his school around the time that we knew they were leaving - and got there just in time to see them pull out. I shot these pics from inside the car leaning across the passenger seat as far as I could to see out the window. I was so happy for him when I saw just how cool the limo was. It was a top notch blue hummer limo. And he said the inside was amazing!

homemade hockey

This is how our boys spent the whole month of december. Outside playing street hockey. They went to a hockey game at the beginning of the month and that started their love for the game... and they've been playing outside since. They wanted hockey sticks so bad that they made their own. All on their own too. I had no idea they were even doing that. One day they just came in to show me the cool hockey sticks they had made out of sticks and duck tape. They first used a baseball for the puck. But after a couple broken hockey sticks, and another roll of duck tape they wised up and found a tennis ball. They wore their heeley's most of the time. It was the closest thing they had to skates. They use the baseball pitch back and a cardboard box for the goals. It was mostly just the two of them, but a neighbor (Dylan) would join in as much as possible. He made his own stick too. They named their team, The Shadows. They came up with that name one day in our backyard while playing. Our dog pen outside has the name Shadow written in the cement from a previous owner. Their colors are black, white, and red. They try to wear those colors when they play. They each have given themselves positions. Dawson is the goalie and he says he is #50 even though he doesn't have any kind of jersey or team shirt - he has already picked out a number. Ha Ha. He keeps asking me to buy t-shirts so he can make team shirts for everyone. One of these days I'm gonna do that for him. Maybe we'll post the team shirts on here. He is requesting white t-shirts with black and red paint or letters. We'll see.

Christmas

The kids getting ready to run down the stairs to see what Santa had brought...

Dawson must have been so fast that I didn't even get a picture of him. Ha ha.

Dallon and Dawson were so excited to see Santa had brought them street hockey sticks and goals. They were really hoping for them!

Santa brought Easton these toy story toys. To say he loved them, is an understatement! As soon as they were out of the box he was busy playing with them the rest of the morning. Hours of play! He had to be coaxed to even open his other presents.

Easton loves his new slippers and cars pj's!!!

And here are a couple pictures of our stockings this year. We decorate a new stocking each year. It's a Sullivan family tradition.... and a tradition that Aaron loves. Here he is with his. And one picture of the rest of ours too.