In his Sunday Best

Jase just looked to handsome in his church clothes so I made him pose for a picture.

Santa Came to Cliffton

No amount of wind or ridiculously freezing temperatures were gonna keep Santa from making his annual trip to Cliffton. Jase climbed right up on his lap this year and told him how good of a little boy he was and that the wanted a Spinosaurus for Christmas this year.

Santa even game him some early presents for being such a good boy.

Jase the Reindeer

Jase got some antlers to go with his reindeer slippers.

The ensemble:

Christmas Door Decor

Jase was very proud of the door decoration he made today.

Our Christmas Tree Debacle

Tonight's Christmas tree decorating festivities didn't turn out quite as we planned...

Things started out good. Jase was enjoying helping Rob put the lights on the tree.

Then...

Catastrophe struck! Our poor little Christmas tree's legs broke and down she went! Jase was so up set. He kept asking, "How is Santa gonna put presents under the tree?"

Just when Jase thought Christmas was ruined I remembered we had a real Christmas tree stand in storage that could close up small enough to hold the fake Christmas tree pole. When Jase saw that we had the tree standing up right again he came and gave me a hug and said, "Mommy, you saved Christmas!"

So, we got back to stringing the lights.

Although we didn't get the decorations up tonight, Jase was very excited to have a lit up Christmas tree standing proud in his living room!

Rocking his Rudolf Slippers

Christmas Countdown

We started December off making a Christmas count down. We used the same pattern as last time, but this time Jase colored it all by himself.

Santa's Helpers

I can't look at these pictures and not smile!

Rudolph

Rudolph, have you seen my son?

Grandma Alice's Christmas Tree

Grandma Alice wasn't planning on decorating her tree till December 1st, but Jase was so excited to help her she couldn't resist him.

So they set it up and he helped her put on all the decorations.

But once he found the beads....

Grandma was on her own because Jase was having too much fun draping them all over him and dancing around the house.

Patrick's Birthday

Jase had his buddy Patrick's birthday party to go to today at Chick-fil-a. The two of them are just so sweet together. They are very similar: passive, quite, and very polite and well behaved. (I know that is kind of bragging, but hey, he's a pretty good kid!) While they were in the playroom, the Cow came in to visit. Jase hasn't been a fan of the Cow, but today he was jumping up waving his hand trying to get a high-five.

I think he got about ten of them by the time the cow left! Haha!

Jase was checking out Patrick's Toy Story cake.

The two of them were having a very in depth conversation about their balloons.

Thank you Patrick for including us in your special day. We had tons of fun!

Turkey Day!

This years Thanksgiving festivities were much smaller and much quieter than Jase has ever experienced....but very nice. We had a nice dinner with Paw-Paw Jack and Grandma Betty at their place and all the traditional Thanksgiving foods were there! And I think Jase really enjoyed spending some quality time with two of his favorite people.

He was appropriately dressed for the day.

He has been excited to eat turkey for several weeks now and was patiently waiting to be served.

Jase cuddling with Paw-Paw Jack.

With his grandparents.

And as excited as he was about turkey, he was even more excited about pumpkin pie! He was supervising Paw-Paw Jack cut out his slice making sure he didn't leave any behind in the dish. (And I was supervising that monster size piece he was cutting and made him cut off a sliver. LOL)

Super Jase

Rob recycled his riped t-shirt and made a costume for Jase

SUPER JASE!!!

Playing School

Today, Jase and Rob played school.

All the students were paying very close attention to the teacher.

Jase got called up to the board.

He was practicing his spelling.

Pizza Night

The Aquilano's hosted a really awesome Pizza Night Party. It wasn't your usual pizza party. There was no Pizza Hut, Dominos or Ledos. There were no arguments about what to put on the pizzas. Instead, everyone had their own pizza dough and got to make top their very own pizza!

First, you had to roll out your dough

Next, you had to put on the sauce and toppings.

Push-Up John was helping Jase out.


There were so many different toppings to choose from. Here, I am helping Jase put chicken on his pizza.

Here is Jase's pizza is ready to go in the grill.


Jase was watching closely to make sure John did not ruin his pizza when he transferred it to the wooden board for cooking.

The final product! Mmm!!!
After eating, Jase and the girls provided live entertainment for the guests.
Anna and Jase playing a duet.

Ania and Jase playing a duet.

And pizza night didn't end with our individually made pizzas. We had pizza dessert, too! Jase helped Karen make the s'mores pizza on the left. The pizza on the right is an apple strudel pizza.

He loved the s'mores pizza! It was finger lickin' good!

All that good eating and fun wore the kiddos out!
Jase was all cuddled up on the couch with Ania's blanket and bear. He had such a good time he didn't' want to leave. He said, "I'm good right here!"

Music and Entertainment

Not only does he put on concerts for us...

But he has crazy costume change during the middle of the concert.