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 :)