Christmas

Here are some pics of Christmas at the Lavoie-Welsh home!

The Little Drummer Boy

More pics of Santa and the Golden Hawk!

Remember we talked about Santa?


The Golden Hawk sneaks in for the photo op (unbeknowenst to little Evey)

Imagine his surprise when he turned around... (we don't have any photos of that...)

Eating Santa's cookies...

courtesy of Kevin - thanks!

Evan meets Santa! (and the Golden Hawk!)

Evan met Santa at the opening of Laurier-Brantford's new bookstore today! We first caught a glimpse of Santa when we were walking to the bookstore. Santa gave Evan a wave and then disappeared into the bookstore. We were lucky in that we arrived during a lull in the day, so that Evan got to play with Santa all by himself! When we got inside the spectacular new bookstore and Brantford Research Centre-West, Evan was in joyful spirits and immediately ran up to the Associate Dean and gave her a hug (thanks Evan!). He was all smiles when he ran up to Santa, who was jingling his sleigh bells to coax Evan to come over. Evan sat on Santa's knee for a few minutes and then let Mommy hold him for the picture with Santa. The Golden Hawk snuck in for the photo. Evan recognized the hawk, but decided that he was a bit scary. Evan got a cookie and then socialized with the group before his pal, Fischer arrived. The boys had the run of the place for about an hour, running up and down the ramps and hanging out with Santa, who was nice enough to get down on the floor to play with Evey. Here is a video of Evan with Santa (and subsequently being scared by the golden hawk). Evan slept very well during his nap, no doubt dreaming about his adventures with Santa!

Gingerbread Boy

After a fun, but brisk walk with Liam and family on the trail this morning, Evan set out to help mommy decorate his first gingerbread train! Here is how it all went down!

Ooooooooooh, mommy, what do we have here?


Testing the candy to make sure it's OK for general consumption!







Here is Evan's seat after his industrious afternoon!

The finished product - great job Evan!

Halloween 2010

Evan showed curiosity very early on regarding the strangely dressed strangers knocking on the door asking for candy....

He decided that he wanted to get in on the candy action too, so he gathered together a few supplies, such as some Halloween glow sticks and a trusty trick-or-treating jack-o-lantern...


Then he donned his tiger costume...

And called up is favorite gal-pal!

Watching and waiting for just the right moment...

They headed out on a candy adventure!

The kids got the hang of the trick-or-treating routine after about 4 houses...

So they decided to pack it in - Evan ran all the way down to the end of the sidewalk, then back to the house.

Trick or treat Daddy and Liam!Time to warm up inside and stick some Halloween cupcakes into our mouths, stat!


Orange icing is the TASTIEST!

Time to count the loot and head off to bed! That was fun Mommy!



Halloween

Pumpkin Carving

Evan helped with the pumpkin carving prep this year. He especially liked poking the innards of the pumpkin with a spoon.

Peeking inside...

Holy cow! Did you SEE that?

I've decided that pumpkins are pretty neat.

Time to get cleaned up though!

Bubble beard!

Waterford Pumpkin Festival

Laughing and running through the leaves!



The parade is beginning, mama!

Evan LOVES bouncing to the drums in the pipe bands - there were 3 pipe bands in the parade.

Cute little ghoul.
Pumpkins!

Notice the dog sitting on a pillow by the steering wheel...



Best. Float. Ever.


Moments after a clown handed Evan fist first fistful of candy...

Let the sugar addiction begin...