Christmas Program

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Friday, The Husb and I along with Grandma M and Grandma & Grandpa A attended Little Man's Christmas program at his school.

They sang, "Hanukkah, Hanukkah", "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer", "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas", "Santa's Reindeer", "Milton the Dancing Christmas Mouse", and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".

LM didn't actually sing but he had the hand movements down. Stage fright I guess.

I'm sure if they were doing something by Justin Beiber or Big Time Rush he would have been all over it!

His classmate, Miss M, was a pro! She'll be on Broadway someday. :D

Merry Christmas!

Random Phone Pics

Downloading pics from the cell phone:

Little Man rocking Han Solo Bear at Cracker Barrel.

LM & Grandma M at his class "Stone Soup Feast".

Uncle J and LM at the "Stone Soup Feast".

sorry for the blur! taken with the old phone, not my schmancy new iPhone :)

being silly with the TX cousins & the Chipmunks!

LM and cousin Isabella

He's crazy about her :)

Happy 2nd Birthday Cousin "J"!!!

Today we celebrated cousin "J's" 2nd Birthday!!!

He blew out the candle!

Mmmmm! Cake!

Presents!

Of course a Star Wars card from LM.

And a gift from LM, the TX cousins and Uncle "J"!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY "J"! WE LOVE YOU!!!

Seussical the Musical!

Yesterday we took Little Man to see the local production of "Seussical the Musical".

Narrated by Cat and the Hat (who was so completely great!) and included characters: JoJo (little Boy), Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz (bird), Mayzie La Bird, Sour Kangaroo, General Gengus Khan Schmitz (great voice!), Mr. Mayor & Mrs. Mayor of Whoville (JoJo's parents), The Grinch, the 2 Wickersham Brothers, 3 Bird girls (back up singer type roles), Yertle the Turtle, Elephant Bird Baby and don't forget, Thing One & Thing Two (fun to watch!).

LM really enjoyed the show! I think he liked seeing little kids performing on stage...even some younger than himself.

After the show we were able to get autographs on a poster of the cast and took some pictures too!

When we were leaving, LM said, "I'm going to be the Elephant Bird Baby because I'm little like him". :)

LM, Horton the Elephant & Elephant Bird Baby

Thing One and Thing Two with LM.

Found out that Thing One is a fourth grader at LM's school! Cool!

Elfie!

This is what Little Man thinks of Elf on the Shelf.

Walked into the living room to find him with the captured "Elfie", and he was growling and laughing.

I said, "You're REALLY not going to get anything for Christmas now!".

His reply, "I'm already on the naughty list."

Hmmmmm.

Celebrating St. Nicholas Day!

Little Man with cousin J and Grandma M

visiting with Saint Nicholas.

"Nicholas lived a long time ago, during the 4th century. He grew up to be the bishop in a city named Myra. He used all his money to help children in need and people who were sick or poor. He helped secretly, so no one would know who had done the good deeds. We remember him because he loved God and was good and kind."

Okie Thanksgiving 2011

In the past we've had a TX Thanksgiving. But this year, the Family descended upon Oklahoma. :D We had family from California, Missouri and Texas come in for the holiday and it was great! There were gift exchanges, eating, meet ups, eating, outing to the movies with the kids, eating, watching football on the t.v., eating, shopping trips, the run and yes...more eating.

And... oops! I'll have to finish this post later!

(6 hours later) Hey! Sorry about that! Realized that I was supposed to be at my eye appointment and had to bolt! :D

It was great seeing all the family! Many who we only see once a year! :(

Christmas gift exchange with the out of town cousins.

The Kids!

Little Man loved seeing all of his cousins!

Although little "J" wasn't so keen on taking a group photo.

Football!

And more football!

Miss C and her Daddy

P, myself and J participated in the Turkey Trot

the day after Thanksgiving.

Had to run off all those calories!

We think this should be a yearly tradition from now on.

The Men of the Family

And the Ladies!

I included this one because I love it!

Grandma M took it on LM's first day of Pre-K back in August.

Lab pics.....Ewwww!

We've been doing dissections in Lab and I have to say, I'm just slightly less grossed out than I was in High School. Once you get the thing cut open, it's kinda cool. It's cutting into it that is SO NASTY!

Cow Eyeball, and yes, they do squirt.

That is probably the only thing from dissecting one

in High School that I remember.

Fetal Pig

They were bigger than we expected but surprisingly easy to dissect.

Ours was a girl and we had to identify the major organs

as well as the reproductive organs.

I don't think I'll ever eat pork again.

Almost time for Breaking Dawn!

Soundtrack from Breaking Dawn was released today and the movie comes out Friday next week! Yeah!

Ahhhhhhh Fall...

This past weekend we were going to take a drive (5 hrs round-trip) to view the fall foliage in our state but we decided that (A). We had plenty of pretty trees around town and (B). We were feeling too lazy that day to spend 5 hours in the car. :D

Here are some pics from a local park:

Little Man!

So happy to be back in Oklahoma where you actually get the changing colors of the leaves.

Halloween

On Halloween Day I took Little Man by his Great Grand-Parents house for a quick visit and candy after school.

Great Grandpa opening the door and getting

attacked by the light saber wielding Darth Vader!

GiGi, Great Grandpa and LM

Darth and Princess Leia fighting

The Husb and LM before we set out Trick or Treating

There were a few houses that decorated and one had a "trick" that about scared the pee out of LM! hee hee! The family had a cooler next to the porch with a sign, "Free Candy", on it. When you opened it, a paper snake popped up! Scared me too but it was so funny! LM said, "Not funny!"

Another house had a guy with a white stocking over his face so he looked like a male mannequin. LM told him, "you're creeping me out".

Maybe next year we can incorporate some tricks into our decorations!