Sunday, December 19, 2010

Weekend Update: Advent Calendar Countdown Dec 17 through 19

Friday Dec 17th: My parents left around lunchtime on Friday, and Easton & I spent the afternoon hanging out and relaxing. Once Jason got home, we gave Easton his gift for the day .... another Christmas book, this one is called "Santa's in Town" and has big flaps with ornaments & presents under them. Here's Easton with his new book:
Checking out his book ---- but checking out his Dad (who is sitting off to the side) more :-)

Easton "reading" his book ..... not really!

Saturday Dec 18th: Saturday was another lazy day .... it was rainy and yucky outside, so we spent the day inside. Later that afternoon I headed out to do some shopping at Walgreens & Harris Teeter & got some great bargains. Jason fixed some tasty tacos for dinner.



Easton's gift for the day was a t-shirt from babygap that has a rock-n-roll guy on it - apparently this makes him laugh! :-)

"Check out my new shirt!"

Awe - so sweet!

It looks like he's saying, "Who? Me?" :-)

Sunday Dec 19th: The rain finally stopped, so we all headed out for lunch and a CVS trip. Naps & playtime were in order during the late afternoon, and then Jason fixed us tuna cakes and mac&cheese for dinner ..... man, I am getting spoiled, he fixed dinner two nights in a row! Easton received the Fisher Price Peek A Boo Frog, which goes with his gift from Dec 12.



All smiles with his new toy

"Here Dad, you wanna play????"

Playing "peekaboo" with his Peek A Boo blocks :-)

As a side note ..... this daily advent gift has been a ton of fun, but is starting to wear me out! There is the whole picture-taking process to deal with - even Easton, who is quite the photo subject and little poser, takes anywhere from 10 to 40 shots to get a few "good" ones. Then there is the upload process, which involves editing, picking out the best ones, etc. Then we have the "upload to Facebook" process, which in some ways is the most challenging because I have to pick my favorite (out of 20, 30, even 40 pics). Finally, there is the "update the blog" process - which is challenging simply because it requires me to recall what we've done in the past 24 hours (or in this update's case, the past 72) :-) Note to self: Do not procrastinate on the remaining updates :-)

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