christmas events

we have been doing a few christmas things this past week.

thursday night we went to the walk through nativity at briarwood church. it was fun but very very cold!! luckily they had hot chocolate at the end to warm up. i think we should have gotten it at the beginning to try to stay warm!

johnny and i got jack a santa hat...he seems to really like it!
his christmas phrase this year is, "ho ho ho! merry bhristmas!" (he doesn't say his c's too well)

just had to put this one in too!

i love that jack is loving christmas this year!

watching merry madagascar (he loves that movie)

we got a nativity in the mail from tia and molly. it is fun for us to tell jack who is who and to listen to him tell us what he has learned. but he had to include his yo gabba gabba characters the other day :)

mimi and papa gave jack a few things for the christmas season...he got a tree that turned into santa...i forgot to take a picture of the santa, but it isn't full grown yet...it takes 72 hours. they also gave him an elf on the shelf who he named ted! he wouldn't listen to the story the other night so maybe i will try again tonight to try to get him to understand. i sure hope that he does understand because it would be nice to remind him that somebody is watching him. he is giving us fits lately (2 year old things!)
here's a few of his favorite "bad" things to do:
* wash his hands, which is a good thing, but he has figured out that he can get on top of the toilet seat and turn on the water. so hopefully now he knows (after a few time outs) that he has to ask us before he washes his hands
* play with the dvd player and dvds. he is obsessed with watching movies and opening and closing the dvd player. so a major time out the other night may have helped...he listens when i say no now
* turning on and off lights. there is a chair in the dining room that is under a lightswitch. jack gets up on the chair to turn the lights on and off. i would just move the chair but he can move other chairs to the switch. so we have tried to tell him no. that seems to work for now. i don't mind him doing it but i just don't like when he flips it on and off really fast!

he really is a good boy most of the time. he is so sweet and tells me he loves me all the time. (probably because i tell him about 100 times a day!). he gives good hugs and kisses. he is really learning to listen to us and understands when we are disappointed (most of the time).

here's a video of him playing in the "snow" that tia and molly sent to us...