Happy Holidays - Lego Style!

It's the day after Thanksgiving and this is the scene in our house...

Me: "Hey kids! Should we decorate for Christmas?!?!?!?"

Ethan: "Yeah!!!!!!" (as he starts dancing around in circles in excitement!)

Garrett: "Oooohhhh yeah! I know just what to do!" (you can almost see the lightbulb over his head as he runs up the stairs)

15 minutes or so later this is how he decorates...and I must admit, it's a whole lot easier than pulling down the bins from the attic and sorting through all the actual decorations! Not to mention, the re-usability and chageability (yes, my own made up words!) of his choice of decor! Maybe we should just go with it...just drape a few strands of lights around the legos and call it good! :)

Santa and his reindeer - complete with Rudolph's red nose! Especially designed for the reindeer to be flying (notice that their feet don't touch the ground!!!)

Music note and star

Christmas tree and gift

Gift #2 and candy cane!

So Merry Christmas, from our lego-style house to yours! May your decor be a little more dignified and classy! :)

Pictures

Here are my favorite funny pictures of the weekend...

Got to love Daddy's head!

My Boys!

Anything for the sticks...

Every picture of Ethan...he has to sing and dance for...so here he is, mid-disco fever...

And proof that little Olivia was included in the fun...

Garrett's Senior Picture

Total senior picture pose!

Although the collection of sticks that he carried around the lake is more of a 6-year-old thing I think! :)

dance party

not that i am promoting GAP at all...but my boys LOVED this commercial.

they made steve rewind it over and over and over this evening (what did we do pre-dvr's?)...then I found it on YouTube and the requests to replay it started all over again!

watch for the little baby throughout...that was garrett's favorite part! That, and the guy who grunts when he jumps! Ethan just danced around everytime and he had moves that were almost as good as theirs!

All night, Garrett would jump up with some spastic move and say "Remember that dance move?"

Too funny! So Merry Christmas to all...and Happy Thanksgiving too!

Dash - Incredible's Style

"Oh! Tool Mommy!!! You yook yike Dash!!!"

(Translation: Oh, cool Mommy! You look like Dash!)

Apparently Ethan was pleased with my outfit choices this morning...and I have to admit it...he's right. I look like an Incredible! Maybe I should find a mask and just go with it - I could definitely use some superpowers today!

heaven help us

Leaving a store, Ethan LOVES to open the automatic doors (meaning he wants to be the one to activate the sensor for the doors to fly open!). No problem...I usually grant him the pleasure, since I really don't get all that excited about the doors magically whooshing open in front of me. But today, Ethan decides that he wants to make the doors CLOSE, not just open. Hmmm...when you're standing there...those doors just won't close! Not that I could convince him of that! So, I have a bag in one hand, Olivia's carseat in the other hand, and I'm trying to coax my 'sweet' 2 year old out the door. HA! He decides right then and there that if he can't make those doors close, he's not going anywhere. He plops right down in the doorway, with poor shoppers having to dodge him, sits there and does his little "I'm not going anywhere till I get my way!" grunt. He even completes his stubborn look with a firm arm folding over his chest! (Seriously, where does he learn this?!?!?) I try to no avail to convince him that "if we go out the doors...they will close behind us!" Does he get up and follow me...nope, he proceeds to remove his shoes...just another gesture of his defiance! So I bend down, put his shoes on (luckily an easy slip-on style!), gather up my things (Ethan included) and rush out of the store...all before I double over laughing!

The best part of all this (during the nap that never happened), I was trying to answer a few emails...and saw an article online titled something like "Study shows personality traits in 3 year olds that lead to lives of criminal activity". SOOOOO not what I needed to see on a day where I feel like the world's worst mom and wondering where my son's crazy antics are coming from! aaaaahhhhhh....I love my life!

olivia and daddy

Here is Olivia...adoring her Daddy! Too cute!