••• Santa & Catchin Up •••

I like to think of Caden as any other child .... however, when his role playing consist of, "Dad, lay down. I am going to put this mask on you. It smells like strawberries.  It will make you sleepy and you will take a nap. Then when you wake up I will roll you down the hall to the wake up room and your Mom & Dad will be there".  Toooooo friggin much ~  I don't think many four year old roll playing consist of "anesthesia".  I love the serious look on Caden's face and the fact that Dan so nicely plays along  :o)

Caden is really into imaginary play right now ... I don't love that he is into guns (I've been told that this is ok ~ I might disagree) ... He and Dan look for "monsters" and "pirates" almost daily.  ... the other day he asked to watch Power Rangers. Really?! What happened to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?  I don't think I like this almost five years old thing!

Saturday, we headed west for the Seattle LPA Chapter Christmas party.  We were so happy to see AJ.  The cuteness of these two is too much!

Decorating Cookies ... They may have consumed more then two ... yikes!

This face ... the face of trying to ignore ... ignore the fact that Santa had just walked into the room.  Caden is not a big Santa fan.  AJ had told him earlier, "its okay Caden, it isn't the real Santa, it's just his helper".

Santa called each kiddo up by name. I wasn't sure if Caden would willingly go up.  When Santa called, "Caden". Caden looked at AJ and said, "AJ come with me".

The picture on the right is AJ telling Santa, "Santa, I'm here to support my friend Caden".

LOVE These!

Caden's fists rolled and tucked under means he's trying to act cool, but really he isn't too sure about this Santa Character ... but AJ is there, so he will remain cool.

His expression in the bottom left is him looking at Santa as if he's thinking, "how did Santa know?" ... Santa's helper (aka Mom) had to go to three friggin stores to find that little Professor Z car.  ~Sigh

Thanking Santa!

The next part of our weekend was heading to Bellevue to stay at the Westin and watch Snowflake Lane with Grammy & Pa-Pa.  Here is his cheesy reaction when we told him.

Snowflake Lane was uber crowded this year.  We had planned to head to dinner after ... But Caden was done! Up since 4:00am, no nap, ran up and down the BB court with AJ, hung out with Santa ... and by this time it was 7:30.  We headed to dinner. Caden had a fit ~ so my Mom and Caden went back to the hotel and the rest of us went to dinner.

Caden and Dan had a little fun at the arcade ... Caden was thrilled to see the big bowling alley ... and I got in a little retail therapy.

Amazingly the sun came out in Bellevue and Caden was too cute soaking it all in on the balcony.

Hope you are finding some Holiday Cheer where ever you are!