A few of my favorite things...

Hangin' with cousins...

(The Leavitts and Alec)

Laptops in color...

and playin' in my new tent...

Mini match box cars...

...and eggs Christmas morn',

These are a few of my favorite things.

Opening presents the morning of Christmas...

Saying "hi-yo" on a flashlight, my new "phone"...

Sitting in laps of the prettiest girls,

...These are a few of my favorite things...

Kissing Caroline,

Loving Ansley,

Wearing her pink shoes...

I simply love Christmas and all that it brings,

And now I'll wait one more year.

I Saw Mommy High-5 Santa Clause

I've been hearing all this stuff about the guy who says "ho ho ho," my new favorite thing to say, so I got together with some of my friends to go meet him.

Turns out, I love playing with my friends, but I wouldn't even get near enough Santa for a picture that day.

Instead, I decided that telling Grandma what I want for Christmas would suffice.

Boy did she listen! Every new gift she and Grandpa gave me, I couldn't contain my joy and I exclaimed, "Ohhhh-booooy!" every time I opened one at our early Christmas celebration.

But mom thought she'd try one more time.

She got me all cleaned up...

And introduced me to the man behind the beard.

"No," I said, resisting the jolly man.

So mom held me while he asked what I wanted for Christmas.

It turns out, though, that he's not that bad.

In the end, I gave him a high-five and told him, "Take-eww" for being so nice.

It's that time of year!

Can you believe that winter is almost here?

Do you know what that means?

It means bundling up for the cold weather...

It means hanging out with my family for the holidays!

It means getting ready for Christmas!

Is that you, Santa Clause?

Jesus loves me...

Jesus loves me, & my Mommy & Daddy know it...

So Mommy & Daddy dedicated me to God and to teaching me all about him as I grow bigger.

It was a neat ceremony - a pastor talked about me and I got to be in the spotlight on stage at church!

The pastors and the deacons prayed for me while my grandparents, cousins, aunt and uncles watched.

Jesus and a WHOLE lot of other people love me too.

Halloween 2010

I was James Dean for Halloween this year.

Mama threw a nice Halloween party so I could flirt with all my friends...

It was SO much fun!

I couldn't wait to go outside and play with all my festive friends.

I was definitely thought I was the coolest kid at the party.

... But my buddy, Ben, was the fastest!

Ellory was there dressed as a beautiful lady bug.

And Sofie was dressed as a beautiful ballerina butterfly.

(She got pretty excited about all the "SUGAR!" Mama served.)

And of course the twins, Gavyn and Kai were there!

Linden, who just turned 1, came to play with me too.

Later I got to go trick-or-treating at my Aunt Jackie & Uncle Zach's new house.

Of course, my favorite part of the night was answering the door and saying, "Boo!" to all the trick-or-treaters.

Yup, just like James Dean,

Halloween is pretty cool.

Hola, Mexico!

I had an awfully nice time in Puerto Vallarta...

Mom & Dad taught me to say, "Hola!"

...And boy did I put my new word into practice.

I shouted it to the little girls at the pool...

And every monring I practiced it on the vendors on the beach.

I wasn't too sure of that ocean water at first though...

But Dad showed me how cool it was to build stuff out of the wet sand.

I got pretty confident about the ocean after that and flexed my muscles to the sea.

I definitely got some nice relaxation time in.

Ole, Mexico!