Merry Christmas Travels

We had a great Christmas this year. First, we went and had fun at Nan and Pop's House. Even before opening presents, O had a great time playing with the truck bank, putting coins in and getting Mom or Pop to shake them out.
Nan and Pop got O this beautiful toy chest - full of wrapped gifts, of course...
Here is O, playing with his new Weebles and Weeble boat.
O really liked opening and closing the doors on his new truck bank.
... and sitting on presents before opening them.
Here we are outside ready to ride his new bike. Unfortunately we did not get any good shots of him riding.
Drilling with Pop. He was so cute copying the technique!


After a couple days of fun with Nan and Pop it was off to Grandma and Grandpa's house for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. O was enthralled with the train under the tree.
Christmas morning - straight to the train control box!
Then on to tackling the presents!
Big grown up man with his new backpack...


Spontaneous Mom hugs! I will take that for a Christmas present.
He was very determined to get himself and his owl into this small box...
When backwards did not work, he decided to just lie down with his head in the box.
And finally, O with Santa Grandpa!

Christmas Party

O's classroom at daycare had their Christmas party on Wednesday last week. The kids and parents all had a lot of fun. His teachers had smoothies for the kids' treat, and O kept on asking for more, more, more.

After smoothies, the kids opened the presents that all of the Moms and Dads bought for the classroom. O really liked playing with the picnic basket he opened. He was very intent on getting everything out and put back in.

Very, very intent...

And, of course, some trucks.

The Bahamas and Back

Last week our little family traveled to The Bahamas. I had a conference for work so we all went a couple of days early for family time. O had a lot of fun playing in the sand and swimming. While I was working he and Tom hung out at the beach, went to the water park at the Atlantis Resort and to a local bird zoo. Unfortunately, Tom did not get a lot of pictures being on his own with the energetic little man and we had a little camera trouble also.

Here is O having fun in the sand, He would say "dump dump dump" whenever he played with the truck. The hotel had a little beach and they had sand toys for kids to borrow in the little cabana, O would go each morning and ask for his bucket and some trucks. He had those guys wrapped around his finger (just like Mom and Dad).

O was not thrilled about the bird on Tom's hand, but he warmed up a little after a few minutes. They also saw a flamingo show..

We happened to be there for a street parade called Junior Junkanoo. O loved the drumming and dancing - this junior version was a precursor to the big parade on Christmas.