Christmas 2010

Christmas in Colorado before heading to Indiana.

The yearly Santa photo - less crying this year...

An airplane that comes with a drill so you had take it apart and put it back together again, over and over and over...
Baseballs are cool!
A dragon fortress - what every boy needs!
You mean there's another present...just for me?? Let me at it!

Dad, hand over the fun new toy. My turn, my turn!

Wow, Uncle Steve, it has my name on it!!

Grandma and Gramps' visit! (Dec 2010)

This is a LONG overdue post, but...in mid-December, Grandma and Gramps Kozel came to visit us in Colorado and we had a great time!

Grandma and Christopher read several stories together...

Putting ornaments on the tree. There was a particular area on the tree with A LOT more ornaments clustered together than the rest of the tree...
Me and Truman are good friends...
Showing off my cool new Woot! t-shirt...
Carefully painting the Christmas cookies...
Check out my hand-made sweater from Grandma!
Being goofy with Gramps...
I'm watching you, Gramps...
The rare family picture...

Grandma, you're silly, I like you...

Thanks for coming to visit us in Colorado!!

Reading a book "with" Grammy...

Christopher is listening to "The Night Before Christmas," narrated by Grammy (aka Shirley) in a recordable book, over and over and over...

Blue sucker = blue tongue

Denver Zoo in November!

It was too warm of a day in November to pass up a day at the zoo...

Halloween 2010

This year, our little monkey man got to do his Halloween treat-or-treating at Aunt Michelle and Uncle Trevor's church (Mountair Christian Church) with his cousins Ayla and Isaiah, as well as Grammy. His monkey costume was courtesy of Grandma Kozel - thanks again, Grandma!!
He "mastered" the games rather quickly, learning that if you stand about 2 inches from the bucket, your throw is much less likely to miss and you're much more likely to get lots of candy.

And he got a LOT of candy!

Trick or Treat Street at the Children's Museum

Right around Halloween, we got to go to Trick or Treat Street at the Denver Children's Museum. The kids played games and got treats - it was fun!

When we first got there, they got to ride on a little train ride...

And of course, played with trains...

Also got to check out the very cool bubble exhibit. Notice how Ayla (thanks to forward-thinking Aunt Michelle) was smart enough to wear eye glasses. Christopher did not (sorry, buddy) and we had a bubbles-in-the-eye incident, but he recovered pretty quickly...

Bowling for a treat...

Reaping the reward of his trick-or-treating...