At Wheelie’s party, I got a gingerbread house to put together. I’m not sure why people put candy on a house and don’t eat it…but Mommy and I decided to give it a try. Mommy did most of the work and she even let me eat some of the candy. I gave my xmas pajamas a trial run.
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I love the holidays! Wheelie hosted a big family Hannukah party and everyone came over and brought me presents. We had a really good time decorating Wheelie’s xmas tree(at the Hannukah party) and then we all got to open some presents. Mommy made me wait to open some until Christmas but I did get to play with some of them. Daddy left early to take me home to bed because I got very tired. All in all, a good time.
[album: http://www.cooperhampton.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/cooperAlbums/Hannukah/]Woo Hoo!!! It’s Christmas time and you know what that means…Santa is coming to town! Well, Stoneleigh scheduled a visit with Santa so that we would get a chance to meet. When he comes on 12/25, I’m already asleep, so I never get to see him. Well, Mommy took me(all by herself) and we waited for Santa and his reindeer to come and say hi. He was a little scary when I met him, but he did have candy cane’s so it was worth it. I even got to see some donuts. Yum, Yum. They also gave me my very own ornament which we put on our xmas tree when we got home.
[album: http://www.cooperhampton.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/cooperAlbums/Santa/]I bet you didn’t know that it’s really cold out now that it’s winter. Well, Susana and I don’t want to sit around inside all day and it’s too cold to go play in the playground so Mommy signed me up for gym classes at Rebounders every Friday. I’m really excited b/c I LOVE the ball pit and it’s all boys, so we get to run around crazy for an hour. Susana had to help me at first, but I’m really getting the hang of this stuff. Also, you can see in the pictures what Pugsly and Wednesday like to do in the winter…
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Dad was poking around through the gazillions of pictures he has of everything on planet Earth and found out that this photo was mis-filed. Since the date it was taken was almost upon us he decided to keep it close by and then put it out here. To recap, this photo was taken December 9, 2008. It is now December 9, 2009 and things are quite a bit different. First, this photo was taken in a different bathtub. Sad as it was to see it go, that tub was in another land. Next, I am huge now. Seriously, large. Two, I no longer sit there passively and get bathed. I not terrorize the bathtub and throw soap and water literally everywhere. Third, now my bath has more toys than water. Oh, and that seat thing you see, I beat that thing all up. No longer useful at all.
What has not changed are the dogs. They are still silly and still follow me around quite a bit.
Just to say though, it was one heck of a year. Next year is going to be even better. Just come back and see.
So it has been a little while since we had a first. Not terribly long but a while nonetheless. I am happy to report we have one now; our first tree. Yeah. At first I was pretty confused what the heck a big tree was doing in my living room. Then I got funky with the ornaments, throwing them all over the living room. When dad had enough of that, they tried to silence me by feeding me. Well, it worked; long enough to allow dad to race through finishing the decorations.
Several years ago grandma started shipping classic car ornaments to dad. He has really had no trees to put them on until now. So, he took them out and tried to put them on the tree. A shortage of hooks prevented the task from being completed all the way but soon enough. We also had another first; LED lights. These suckers are bright as all getup and use a fraction of the juice. Sweet.
Here is the highlight reel from the experience.
[album: http://www.cooperhampton.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/cooperAlbums/firstTree/]This is a great concept. Have a ton of folks decorate trees, have them donat them to an event, then allow other lazy folks to buy a pre-decorated tree. Sweet. From my perspective there is a lot of crap to play with too. Bonus! We ran around for a few hours and checked out trees, played with anything I could grab, and I even had the biggest hot dog of my life. Seriously, it was humongo. Then we bought our first tree. That is for another post though.
[album: http://www.cooperhampton.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/cooperAlbums/festivalOfTrees/]Mom and dad are constantly amused at my dancing abilities. Listen, when you got it flaunt it right? Seriously, I can’t help it if I am good at this stuff. We took a mall trip randomly and, why we don’t know, mom and dad thought it a good idea to take me into a toy store. Well there was this killer guitar in there that allowed you to press buttons and get great guitar riffs back. While mom was able to stroll the store dad got to watch me kick it by the guitar for about 15 minutes.
What was I doing? Dancing man. I have a knack for stopping every time the iPhone comes out but dad did manage to get this one in the can. This blog is going to make being a teenager so much more rewarding for dad I just know it. He told me to mention here a note to my future girlfriends. “This will be shown, trust me”.