Thanksgiving & Santa

Brady has been very excited about the holidays.  He made my day when at school they did an activity about what they are thankful for and he said he was most thankful for his Mommy and Daddy.  Many of the other kids were thankful for toys, random food items or cartoon characters, but Brady very confidently said his Mommy and Daddy.  Awww.    I will take the compliment as just a couple of days earlier he told me at dinner time he wanted a different Mommy because I was making him drink his milk.

For Thanksgiving we visited Cory’s family in Peoria.  While we were there we were able to attend the Santa Clause parade.  It was windy, but the weather wasn’t too bad for watching the parade.  The floats, bands and people keep Brady’s attention for a good hour and a half.  He waved at every one who came by and thought it was pretty cool.  Santa along with Buzz Lightyear were the highlights.

We also made sure to visit Santa so Brady could tell him what he wanted for Christmas.  Brady had fallen asleep in the car on the way to go shopping so we put him in the stroller (this is the ideal scenario when shopping with a 3 year old boy as he will repeatedly remind you that he doesn’t like shopping).  He woke up right before we were going to leave so we decided to swing by to visit Santa.  As we got to where Santa was at,  Santa and Mrs. Clause were leaving as it turned out they closed at 5 and it was about 5:10.  Santa was so sweet though and offered to still let Brady come sit on his lap.  The great news is since they were officially closed the overpriced picture people had already left so we were free to take as many pictures with our own camera as we wanted.  I think I was just as thrilled as Brady since we weren’t going to be dropping $20 on a single print photo.  This was the first year Brady was not scared of Santa.  He set on Santa’s lap and told him he wanted a big kid basketball shoot (basketball goal), an air hockey table and a trampoline.  He has been pretty consistent on these items.  I have asked him a couple of times if there is anything else he wants from Santa and he has said no.   We’ll have to see what Santa thinks as these are awfully big items to fit in Santa’s sleigh.

Finger Treat!

Happy Halloween!  This year we had lots of fun celebrating Halloween.  Last year we were in London and for the most part Halloween isn't celebrated.  Brady was very excited to select his costume and participate in Halloween festivities.  His first request for a costume was Buzz Light Year.  The Buzz costume that I liked I couldn't find in a 3T (probably didn't look hard enough) so we had to resort to a backup costume.  I found a cute monkey costume so convinced Brady that would be a good second choice.  He was quite happy to be a monkey particularly because his monkey had a banana in the pocket.

We had a couple of Halloween events to prep for the big day.  Brady actually loved wearing his costume.  To be quite honest I was a bit surprised since his costume was all fleece and really hot and the weather was pretty warm.   

Brady was a real champ at trick or treating.  Before we went I asked him what he was supposed to do to make sure he was prepared.  He says, I go to the door and say finger treat please.  Finger treat?  I correct him and say no it's trick or treat.  He then proceeds to correct me and says, No Mommy it's finger treat.  Well, I guess it kind of makes sense since you grab the treats with your fingers.  If Brady wants to go finger treating that fine by me.