Thomas turned 3! and our christmas tree is finally down

what a crazy hammy ham thomas is :). here are some more pictures of him clowning around with william's parents. as stoic as they are, even they can't resist laughing at him! and from certain angles, when he smiles a certain way, he lookes a LOT like his grandpa. you can see it in the second pic below, just their smiles and eyes look SO similar.


such fierce concentration!

we have never let him have such a HUGE popcicle - look how stoked he is!


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william finally managed to convince thomas that it was time to take the tree down. we did it in phases, first all the trim around the house, then the tree ornaments, and finally the tree itself today. not too bad considering we've had it up since mid-october :)

we've been trying to potty train him, but in the meantime, he is still in diapers. lately he has not been telling us when he has gone poop. so this evening william was scolding thomas quite loudly as he carried him to the changing table. all of a sudden thomas interupts william's tirade saying,
"daddy, you spit on my face."
william, "what?" (really pissed off sounding too)
thomas, "you s-pit on myee face"
william, "well i don't care because i am really upset at you right now"

of course, i was silently cracking up downstairs. i couldn't even hold it in :)

new year, many new things coming out of thomas' mouth

happy new year to all of you! thomas has changed quite a bit in the last three months. for starters, he throws fits much more when he doesn't get enough warning about a change in activity or if we take something away unexpectedly. an average of about one a day. funny too b/c they happen so suddenly. one minute he is all fine, the next minute, he is crying like the WHOLE WORLD IS GOING TO END! however, if we give him a count down so he knows when to expect something to end, he is usually pretty good. sometimes we have to ask him if he is going to stop, or if we need to physically pull him away. (when given 2 choices, he always picks the option to do things himself).

he also is really getting the hang of talking and puts together some surprising zingers. now we totally get why our friend, Andy is always posting funny things that his kids say. they say the darnest things!

Mommy: "thomas why don't you try eating some of this omlet? it is SO yummy, so delicious!"

Thomas: "then you eat it!"
(he spears the two chunks with his fork and dumps it on my plate.)

Another favorite of his is to walk over to another child that has something he wants and he says "SHARE!" and "You're supposed to take turns" (translation: give it to me!)

On the good side, he continues to be completely enthralled with music and our house is filled with him singing and trying to play various instruments. while the guitar is his favorite, he also will pretend to play the piano, his little flute, the drums and occasionally a little violin or cello. Of course, his no 1 priority is learning new songs from the Wiggles. Here is his current favorite on youtube - the Shimmey Shake. sorry it is kind of loud - he doesn't really sing softly.