Christmas 2010

Christmas Eve was spent again with the Gaffney gang. We had wonderful night together. Sean really enjoyed his cousins and spent the night running after them. This year Santa was daddy. But Sean did not know that. It was funny to watch Sean get closer and closer to him, but did not want to sit on his lap. He was very curious about Santa this year. Sean loves all his gifts and did not know what to play with first.

Sean got to bed late that night but still managed to get up twice in the night and come into our room. Christmas day was spent at home. It was very relaxing day. Sean got up for the third time at his 7ish time and came into our bed for a little while. Then it was off to fix him breakfast and of course gift opening. Sean loved all his trucks this year. His fire truck was a hit. He got a few diggers and he got this year’s Hess truck with the jet plane. He also got a drum that lights up. He likes to ride Thomas the Tank Engine around the house. Of course he got plenty more Elmo stuff and tickets to see Elmo Live at Madison Square garden and tickets to Coco Key water park.

I actually surprised my husband with his gift this year with a Kindle. Patrick gave me a necklace with Sean’s name and birth stone on front and our gotcha/family date on the back. I just love it! My best gift was Sean giving me kisses. So cute! He puts his lips to mine and making the kissing sound (mmma) My sister and husband came up from NJ. This year it was great to have my sister help me out with the cooking. We had a delicious prime rib roast this year with no left over’s. So to burn off dinner we all went to the playroom to do a little bowling. Patrick bought the family Xbox with Kinect. What a lot fun that was.
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas this year!


Love this pic with his new hat on!

The first big snowstorm this year!

Sean does much better in the snow this year, last year he did not like it at first.

Wow look at my digger, Santa brought me! He likes the word "digger"

He loves to say "Thomas" real loud.. It is to funny!

Sweet Madalyn, who he loves to play with.

Sean given his mum-mum some love and hugs!

Sean moving closer to Santa. Dad enjoyed his Santa roll this year!

Student of the week!

Patrick and I were invited to Sean's pre-school classroom yesterday because we were notified he was student of the week! Sean has done very well in the short time he has been in school. He is a little star at school. He walks into school with his backpack on and approaches everyone to say "hi." It is funny to watch! He is like a cruise director! We observed Sean in his classroom and he did great in circle time. Whatever the teacher ask him to do he would perform it and then turn around to tell us. Later the teacher said Sean was showing off for us and she thought it was great that he would look to us for praise.


Here is Sean with his pals in circle time. He loves the singing and dancing. It was so great to see him having fun in class. We are so proud of our son to see how eager he is to learn and participate with his peers in school.

Sean 1st school picture. He looks so grown up.

Ti's the Season!

This year was a success with Sean sitting on Santa's lap! He protested a bit, but sat long enough to get the picture taken. He greeted Santa with a "Hi" and shook his hand when he got down. I think Sean thinks the mall is a magical place with all the fun things to do there. He loved the train ride around the mall. Going up and down in the elevators was a thrill and playing with the other kids in the kiddie area was a blast. We are enjoying the Christmas season so much this year. Sean sure does know who Santa is this year!

Sean and daddy time!

Sean loved saying choo-choo and ding-ding on the train ride!!

"Big Bird" is also a favorite of Sean's as he was yelling it in my ear! lol.

We went to our town Holiday Festival and Sean ran right to the carousel for a ride.


I had to take a picture of Sean in his hat we bought last year in Russia for him. It was to big last year and this year it is to small. Oh well..It is a cute pic though.

Sean in his holiday pj's

My little sweetie!

Our Christmas tree outing. The boys had fun picking the tree!

Sean helping dad with the measurements.

Such a big boy!