Getting ready for Christmas

So mummy tells me that Christmas is just around the corner and i have been getting very excited. So excited that mummy had to buy me a advent calendar cause I just wasn't understanding how many 30 days was and i was getting a little peeved that it wasn't Christmas yet (note to parents... don't tell them about it till the night before).
One of the traditions that was started when I was a baby was having my picture taken with Santa Claus. I have never cried when I have seen him but some years I have been a bit leary of the old guy cause well I only ever get to see him once a year. But this year was different, I went up and sat right down and told him that I would like trains for Christmas and that I have been very good (I had to check with mummy on that though). Now mummy and daddy have a very nice picture of me this year and I'm actually smiling.
Another thing that we try to do is write a letter to Santa and since I'm not that great at printing, we have emailed Santa a letter and guess what? he wrote back and told me that I have been a good boy and that he knows that I want a train and that he had to finish making all the toys so that he could deliver them on Christmas eve. Oh I can't wait!

Yesterday, we went to my Auntie Kim's place to make a whole bunch of Christmas cookies and I got to help. I helped roll out the gingerbread, sugar cookies and shortbread, put my thumb in the thumb cookies, ate raw cookie dough, licked icing off my fingers when they got too close to the cookie, piped on some icing onto the gingerbread men, dumped a whole bunch of m&m's on the gingerbread and then ate 3 cookies and a wack of candies.

Boy that was fun and now I really can't wait for Christmas and all the cookies to come out.

Tricks for Treating

Otherwise known as racing your friends to the houses for candy!

So last week was Halloween and it was a very exciting time. On Friday we carved our 4 little pumpkins and 1 bigger pumpkin that we grew in the garden. Mummy was surprised that i didn't want to stick my hands into the pumpkin and pull out the guts since i really like getting muddy outside. I really just wanted to cut the pumpkins but am still not old enough for that job yet so instead I just made pictures on the pumpkins for mummy and daddy to carve.
Then the big day arrived on Saturday with us going to a party at our friends house where there were lots of new toys to explore and scary foods to taste (scary in a good way).

Then it finally got dark enough for us all to don our costumes and traipse around the neighbourhood in search of the best candies. We saw some really neat houses all decorated up to scare and lots of pumpkins.

When we finished, mummy, daddy and I went to visit my cousins, and my grandparents so that i could show them my costume and so i could pick up the special treats from them. I really like Halloween and have already told mummy that I want to be a dog for next year.