Christmas 2009

Owen's 2nd Christmas was a great one! He was really into the presents this year! Santa brought him a train table. :o) Unfortunatley, it was not put together, so daddy had to put it together Christmas Eve...it took like 2 hours! This thing has a million pieces! We had it all set up and ready for O to wake up and see it on Christmas morning. When he walked out into the living room, he gasped and said, "OH! Shoo-shoo rain???" He was in shock, lol.

He didn't even know what to think! He went over to the table and started playing with the trains. Here is where I feel like a grinch. He got so frustrated with the train table eventually, because the trains were magnetic instead of hook-together, and they wouldn't stay together, they kept falling off of the track, the bridge kept falling over, etc. Each play session included lots of frustration screams, tears, etc. SO, a few days later, daddy decided that the train table was going back to Toys R Us...errr...the North Pole. We got him a Geotrax set instead, and he LOVES it. He can play independently with it, and he even has some remote control trains that go with it! He is in "shoo-shoo rain" heaven now. :o)

Here he is, picking out his next present!


A football! Just what he always wanted!! :o)

His new monster tent! This thing is hilarious.The opening of the tent is the monster's mouth, and you can zip his mouth up to close the tent. Owen loves to do this. He goes, "bye, mommy!" and will attempt to zip it up. He also likes to play trains or puzzles in the tent, and zip it up. It gets quite stuffy in there, especially when he insists that all 3 members of our little family are in the closed tent playing.

His next gift was the Let's Go Fishing game. He really loves this game! He has figured out how to cheat, too. He will pick up a fish from the pond, put it on his pole and go, "YAY!!!" I'm on to you, O...

In between presents he had to take train breaks.


Here he is opening his next present...Marley and Me! That is his FAVORITE movie. Oh my, that child is obsessed with Marley. He thinks that dog is the funniest creature EVER. During the part where Marley is drinking out of the toilet, Owen will go "EWWW! YUCK!!" and then start cracking up, because obviously that is the funniest movie scene EV-AH!

Surveying his loot...he was obviously happy!


Here is his new puzzle holder. He loves to do puzzles and is very, very good at them. He is so smart! Do you love his Christmas pajamas? Oh wait, he didn't get any. I tried to buy him some, but he *really, really, really* didn't want them. He kept saying, "NO! Nigh-nor! Nigh-nor!" (Dinosaur, for those of you who don't speak Owen's language!) So, we wound up with new dinosaur jammies for Christmas Eve. :o) Gotta love little boys!