Santa, a play date and cookies

Well, I still can't get the pictures from the tree lighting to download-but here's Ryan's Santa picture. We waited in line for over an hour just so he could ask for a Ceratosaurus. Once it finally came to our turn, Lucas had gone to the car with daddy to eat, so Ryan got to do this one solo.

Yesterday we went to a Christmas play date and as a special surprise, Santa stopped by! (a great big thank you to Tara, Randy, Olivia & Alex!). I thought for sure Ryan would be excited. Ever since he saw Santa at the tree lighting he's been telling me that he changed his mind and wants a Spinosaurus instead-all week he's been saying "I better tell Santa quick". But, instead of telling him about changing his mind, he ran from him...literally! After all of the other kids sat on Santa's lap, he came looking for Ryan, who was hiding under the train table!! Santa proceeded to follow him as he ran circles around the house. Not sure what that was all about!! This morning I went into his room and he greeted me with "mommy, I'm very sad that I wasn't nice to Santa". I told him we'd see if Santa was available for a visit this weekend so that he could say he was sorry. :)

Luke, on the other hand is a big Santa fan...

Ryan refused to hold Lucas in the group shot so we talked Landon into it, but by the time we got them settled, all the other kids had disappeared. Landon was so sweet with him and is going to be an excellent big brother!!

Last night, the weather was blah and we were bored, so we decided to make some sugar cookies. A few months ago I was grocery shopping and in the peanut butter aisle I found a dinosaur sandwich cutter-best thing I ever bought! Ryan refused to eat sandwiches for as long as I can remember, but now he asks for dinosaur sandwiches and thinks its hysterical to bite their tails off (strange, I know, but whatever works!) Anyway, he wanted to make dinosaur cookies, so that's exactly what we did.

We let him do his own thing with the decorations...not our best idea!

Ryan's brachiosaurus cookies


Lucas watched :)

This is a random picture. Dave watched the boys while I did some Christmas shopping on Tuesday and he took some pictures of Lucas, I thought this one was cute.