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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Christmas

Merry Christmas! Despite the blizzard, we were still able to make it to Church on Christmas Eve and to Mary's house to celebrate with our family. Sal was such a treat this Christmas and really appreciated Mommy's decorations, saying "ohhh Pretty" and wanting the lights on all the time.

The Valera family on Christmas Eve

Mommy and her sweet little boy!

Sal was worn out from running around with cousin George but managed to open gifts anyway!

Grandpa and Grandma spoiled Sal with a ride-on train - when he got on and pressed the button he exclaimed "it's working!"

Santa brought Sal a train crossing - we have a lot of fun with this!

Sal on Christmas morning riding his train with the fire truck in back. When he woke up Christmas morning he asked where his firetruck was and then talked about the working train. So cute, it took a while to get him to open his Santa gifts!

Christmas morning in our matching pjs!

Sal and cousin George playing with new trains on Christmas day.

Daddy and Sal playing in the Thomas tent that Santa brought

A few days after Christmas, Sal is enjoying some of his Christmas toys.

Sal loves to play in his Thomas tent

It was a very Thomas Christmas!

December Fun

December turned out to be quite a month...we attempted to visit Santa, celebrated Aunt Ronnie's 40th Birthday, said goodbye to Sal's beloved Great Grandma Ruth, enjoyed some vacation time with Daddy and got ready for Christmas.

Sal in his Christmas sweater on the way to see Santa at Sprint. This did not go well, no picture was taken. I personally think Sal remembers this guy took his binkie when he was 4 months old...since there are no pics with Santa here's some with Mom and Dad before the tears started.

While Mommy snuck off to lunch at Andre's, Dad treated Sal to some "train spotting" on the way home from visiting Santa.

Sal's Godparents are 1/3 K-State - the other 2/3 are KU. Here is Sal sporting his purple!

Sal enjoyed lunch out to celebrate Christmas with Aunt Jeanine - he loves chips!

Aunt Mare Mare and Uncle Paul came over for dinner before Christmas - cheese!Uncle Paul put Sal in his shopping cart and drove him around - Sal loved it but has been told that "only Uncle Paul knows how to do that"Cutest Daddy and Sal picture!The googlie eyes that Aunt Mare gave Sal two years ago still come back every once in a while, he made us nervous when he climbed the stairs with them on!

Trains and Counting

This is one of our favorite videos taken by Daddy during while he and Sal were "looking for trains" on the way home. We do this a lot but Herley was clever enough to record it.

Thanksgiving

We enjoyed seeing all of our family on Thanksgiving and it was a fun-filled weekend with lots of food, shopping and family!

Sal modeling the Indian headband we made as a Thanksgiving craft.

The Valera family on Thanksgiving

Sal enjoying playing trains with cousin George.

Before dinner on Thanksgiving Day, the guys were all outside throwing balls in the tree to amuse the little boys. Two got stuck in the tree and here was Daddy's attempt to go after it...oh my!

Baby Vivian's first Thanksgiving with Aunt Mary, Marcia and Granny

Sal enjoyed some tv time with Uncle Paul over the weekend.

Sal loves when cousin Chance comes to visit - he's a great source of entertainment! Here's Chance snuggled up with Sal and George having snacks and a show!

Something to be Thankful For

The evening before Thanksgiving we were lucky to get to catch a quick visit with the Folster's on their way from Louisiana to Topeka. Sarah is Sal's first friend and the two quickly caught up!

Hello Hugs! Melt their Mommy's hearts!

Sal and Sarah waiting for dinner

So happy to be together again!

See you soon hugs!

A little bir of November

I find myself playing blog catchup again - I didn't even load pictures until mid-December. Now that we are snowed in again perhaps I'll get the job done! We continue to have so much fun watching Sal grow into a little boy. He's talking up a storm and full of energy!

Who doesn't love chocolate pudding?

Lots of fun with the leaves - and we have plenty still on the trees! Here Sal is saying "I hear a train"

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Boo!

Halloween was SOOOO much fun this year! Sal had such a great time and it is always so delightful to watch him experience things differently each year! He learned about ghosts on the Thomas Halloween DVD we borrowed from the library although he isn't afraid...we have ghosts in the closet, the dryer and his train tunnel. It's very funny and he'll now say "boo" to the tunnel. He was a train conductor which was perfect given his love of trains right now...he enjoyed wearing the costume and you'll see that he made the rounds and we got a lot of good use out of it!

Our Sweet Little Conductor! All Board!

Sal took cupcakes to Granny's work and of course she shared one with him!

Sal went to Aunt Mary's work for Halloween fun! He even brought along a train and some track.

"Sucker is good"

Mommy played the supporting conductor role at Aunt Mary's work.

Sal stopped by Hy-Vee to show Uncle Paul his costume.

Sal went to a "party" as he called it at Daddy's work on Friday. Daddy played the conductor role this time!

Sal loves plastic pumpkins, here's a little one he found in Daddy's cube!

Sal really liked Daddy's boss' purple pumpkin and of course Jon was nice enough to let him carry it around.

The Valera's at Sprint

On actual Halloween, we took our little conductor to see the trains at Union Station and to lunch at Fritz's. Daddy was home sick but Aunt Mary and Uncle Paul came along for the fun!

Sal poses with Aunt Mary and Uncle Paul

Marcia & Mary at lunch

Mom and Dad worked hard on making Sal's Step2 Car into a Thomas, like the true procrastinator she is, Mommy got a late start. It turned out pretty good - most important, Sal really liked it!

Sal is watching a Thomas video from his train.

Front view

Grandpa played the supporting conductor role on Halloween since Daddy was sick. So cute, I don't ever remember Dad playing along this well when I was young!