Random Christmas Pictures

Rudy and Paul put up the Christmas lights on a cloudy day. As soon as they went out, it started to rain. As soon as they were finished and came in, the rain stopped.

Rudy and I went out the other day and Rudy arranged his gloves like this. He has one pair actually on his hands and the other strapped around his wrist.

Rudy setting up our nativity set to look EXACTLY the way it does on the box. A few minutes later he changed it and it has since been changed several times.

We went to the Children's Museum recently and Rudy played in the News room - I don't think he's ever gone in here before but today he ran right to it and started predicting the weather.

The pictures of the TV screen didn't turn out well but he kept insisting I had to watch him from the screen instead of directly at him.

Over the years, Rudy has gotten so good at building a car; he never needs any help anymore.

The other night a local church had a living nativity. Rudy loved seeing the animals and would have stayed all night trying to pet them.

Dark and cold outside and my little Guatemalan refused to wear his gloves; I'm not sure where he gets his cold tolerance from!

After seeing the nativity, we went to dinner with my dad. Rudy was sitting on these chairs, waiting for food to arrive and concocted an elaborate game where we were on a ship and Dad and I were in charge of steering and the anchor and Rudy was the look out.

With just a week to go before Christmas, we finally decorated our tree.

Spring Fun

We have been very lucky so far with the weather on our spring break. It has gotten warmer each day and is quite a tease for summer, since I am sure it will soon get colder. Rudy still has a bit of a cold and has moments of being pretty whiny, but we are able to get outside and do something each day.

Rudy has really been trying to climb trees lately. We don't have any trees in our yard that are good for climbing, but we found this rhododendron bush in the back with very thick limbs he can sit on.

Anytime we are in the backyard, all Rudy wants to do is play baseball. I'm not sure how he's going to do in organized sports since he likes to make up his own rules of play.

After playing outside, we came in and made one of our favorite summer traditions - smoothies. And Rudy decided to ham it up for the camera.

Christmas Events

During the past week we celebrated Christmas a few different ways.

While home bound during the snowstorm, we decorated our tree. If you look closely at the window, you can see the snow piled up on the spruce outside.

Friday night (pre-storm) we went to 'Mithmille' to see the Christmas lights and do some shopping. The lake has all these Christmas trees that are set to music.

Of course, Spiderman joined us on that outing. We also rode the train (very cold when you sit in the front of it) and Rudy rode the carousel.

Paul's company had a Christmas party on Thursday night. Here is Rudy refusing to have a picture taken.

And here he is happily dancing with, K, the daughter of one of Paul's co-workers. Rudy only sees her twice a year at company events but he loves playing with her and she looks forward to seeing him. It is nice for us to have a babysitter so we don't have to amuse him the whole time.

Rudy took this picture of Santa at the party.

I think this is about the 3rd Santa picture we have from this season. This Santa had bells and when the kids sat with him, they were able to jingle the bells, which was a hit with Rudy.

Displaying his gifts from Santa - a bear he named "Pinky White" since he's got a pink hat and scarf and is white, and a Spiderman memory game.