The Perry Crew

Miscellaneous- January

Caelan and Daddy sharing hot chocolate

"You want to tickle Daddy?"

Caelan will reach over and nudge Matt's hand and say that to him, then Matt digs into him and Caelan sqeals and giggles!

then Matt will stop and Caelan reaches over and nudges him again.... this goes on over and over and over!

Super sweet picture with Bear and Blanket- both very special and always within reach. Below- he has covered up Brucie with his blanket- the ever so tolerant cat that adores Caelan.

Bruce laying outside of Caelan's bedroom. See? Isn't that so sweet? I love it. Caelan was supposed to be taking a nap

..... but this is what all was going on instead. He was behind the chair playing. The room was wrecked and the firetruck is on the recliner.

Things eventually get tossed out into the hallway.

We had gotten Caelan "Cars 2" for Christmas and decided to have a pizza "picnic" in the living room while watching it. He thought this was all pretty cool. He was really into the movie- entranced- must have been good if he was letting his pizza get cold! But the downside is- he hasn't liked it since then- there were some scary parts in it. So we just stick with the original.

Boards

My three sisters and I all had these red boards when we were younger- about 18x24 in size, give or take and a nice deep red color, each with our own name in the upper left hand corner. Over at my dad's, my sisters used to put their notes for Santa on them and Santa would leave our gifts next them. That was every bit of 25-30 years ago. And all four of us still have them. Mine has been used for everything under the sun- they are awesome. As I write- I am using it as a lapboard for my computer.

So Matt and I decided a while back we wanted to make some for the boys- Caelan, Solon and Luke. And this Christmas we made all of our gifts for people so this was the year for the boards- the thing was, it took a little bit longer than we anticipated! So they were about a week or so late getting shipped down South. And I didn't tell my sisters what was coming- but they both cried when their boys unwrapped these!

Matt cut the boards painted (many coats) of primer and paint. I painted the names on them. Caelan "signed" them with his handprint on the back of each one.

Priceless!!

Christmas Day 2011 - Home

He had a handful of things from us and one or two more from Grandma and Grandpa and opened a cool playdoh set from Aunt Ma-Mar, Uncle Jay and Solon. But I think it will be obvious what his favorite was!

He LOVES the movie "Cars" and this is something Matt had got for him several months prior to Christmas (which is why we broke the "no cars" rule for Christmas). This is the car hauler "Mac" and a few other characters from the movie. Mac talks when you press his hat and then the cars can be loaded in the bottom or on top. He spends a LOT of time with this toy!

Christmas 2011- Miscellaneous

Here are a few odds and ends from Christmas time-

Matt's mom had back surgery in October and was in a back brace for 12 weeks or so- well she decided to decorate it for Christmas- it was really cute! (and she was so close to being DONE with it!)

All the kids hanging out watching The Grinch before we ate and opened presents.

Keaton, Samuel, Grace, Bailey, Caelan, Erin)

Great picture of my two most favorite guys in the world!

He loved this little saxophone- he really likes to play music or as he says "play in a band"

And below- he is just running all over with some cars he got.

Matt wrapped up Caelan in some wrapping paper- complete with a bow on his head! Then he popped out

Just some cute pics of him wearing his Christmas shirt, playing with a Santa hat

I LOVE this! This is what he made at school for me for Christmas!! Things like this I really appreciate his teachers for... super special, beyond words!

Santa

We have always gone to see the "real" Santa at the Great Wolf Lodge each year. This guy is so awesome- we love him! On the way there, Caelan was excited about going to see Santa Claus but then wasn't so sure once we were there! Santa had a few little tricks up his sleeve though to get Caelan to interact with him.

I think I will just hide my face in Daddy..

or ignore the weird guy next to us...

Oh cool! He has a WATCH with a TRAIN on it!!

A hug?? Ok!

I BARELY got this shot of him with Santa- I had put the camera away because Caelan had gotten down already and I figured there was no going back- but then he asked Caelan for a hug and he turned just right for the perfect picture!

All three of us in front of the great big fireplace at the Lodge

Christmas Tree (2011)

We usually go pick a tree to cut and this year it was stinkin COLD! Even though there wasn't much snow on the ground.... we didn't stay out too long. Fortunately there was the perfect tree that spoke to us and Matt and his dad cut it and loaded it pretty quick.