Positive choice

I considered posting a little mini-tirade about how the radio stations start playing Christmas music at the beginning of November and then stop playing then the night of December 25th. But, instead of complaining, I will instead bring you my very favorite silly Christmas song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwKI82CTp2o and my favorite serious Christmas song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifEUn1AxDYo for your enjoyment.

Special hiding spot

Well today I figured out that we wrongly accused the dogs of eating Harrison's fridge letters. We had been missing the N and O for a while, and thought they were lost or, more likely, eaten by a dog. Today, I was doing the dishes after making cookies, and I hear Harrison over in front of the fridge grunting and making all sorts of noises. The few times I glanced at him, it looked like he was just hugging all over Sam. But then, I spotted him pulling out two really icky, dirty letters out from under the fridge. He hid them under there I guess!! So I quickly grabbed them and washed them. I gave them back to him and spelled his name for him. He smiled, took the N off the fridge, and shoved it back underneath the fridge. I tried to grab it but my hands aren't long or fast enough, so we will have to fish it out. He is so crazy!!!

Spaghetti

Last night, we enjoyed some spaghetti for dinner. The sauce was leftover from Jason's birthday dinner and it was so good (I didn't make it so I can say that!). I finally gave in and thought it would be fun to let Harrison have at it too.

So we stripped him down and let him go for it.

He had a blast!! He decided the best way to eat it was to get it all over your hands, and then slurp it off.

He loved it and ate two whole salad plates full of it. Yummy!



Here is the final product. This is actually him giving the sign for 'all done'. We went straight up to the bath and scrubbed him down. I think this might go down as his favorite meal ever!

Snow

We had a huge snowstorm on Friday. It was really pretty coming down, and Saturday morning, we decided to dress Harrison up and take him out to play. All 4 grandparents make the trek over to watch, and it ended up that it took longer to dress Harrison than he played outside. I got him a snow suit complete with bib overalls this fall, and he has been wearing the coat for a while. But the bibs were soooo cute on him. I don't know why, but he did NOT like the snow. He didn't want to stand in it, walk in it, or touch it.

So thank goodness the grandparents were here so they could take Harrison inside to let Jason and I play in the snow. We made a snowman and it was HARD work. Man, snow balls get heavy!




I was so mean and made Harrison come back out to get a picture with the snowman. He has yet to forgive me....

Our little lamb

This year, Harrison was a lamb in our church Christmas pageant. This is quite a change from last year when he was Jesus. But, nonetheless, he was the best darn sheep there (that is, until it came time for him to really do his sheep thing...then he wanted nothing to do with it!).
A sheep's world doesn't stop just because there is a pageant. I mean, who would cook and clean then? Harrison is apparently awaiting a very important call while he cooks.

Here's a look at him from the back. The fleece was really big so we had to rig it up a little to make it fit. Plus, they have white sweatsuits for the sheep and they were too big for him, so we settled for a white shirt and khaki pants. I was running late so Jason has to dress him all by himself, which I understand was a very big task.


In order to help convince Harrison to be the sheep, I had to give him a blue play level from the nursery. In the middle of the play, he launched it across the front of the play. Nice.

So I admit maybe it was a little much for him to be in the pageant this year, but what fun we had!

Harrison at Christmas

In case you haven't missed us, we have been a bit out of touch lately. Wanna guess why? Harrison's walking and now all we do is chase him!! He is like a little motor. He just goes and goes and goes. THe house has been baby proofed but we still have a hard time getting a chance to hop on the blog to let you take a peek at what we have been doing. But here is an overview.


Not so crazy about Santa this year. It probably didn't help that we had to wake him up after almost 4 hours to go get his Santa picture made (Santa came to our church for soup and sandwiches). Hey, Santa doesn't hang around for long for anyone big guy. He's got stuff to do!!!

Harrison cheered up though after he got rid of Santa.



We had a blast at the Christmas parade. It was COLD and we had a great time!


Harrison got to help Jason put the angel on top of the tree this year. He 'helped' last year, but that just meant Jason held him. This year, he gave directions, "A little left, turn it the other way...."....
It looks great!!!