Roman and his new tricycle

Roman loves his new tricycle, even if he can't exactly pedal it by himself. He's especially adorable because he tends to clap after ringing the bell.

Roman's band

Give it up for little man!

Roman on Christmas morning

Roman checking out the presents

Santa's haul







roman enjoying santa's haul

Mama playing like a kid again

Visiting Encanto Park

Enchanted Island at Encanto Park does a hoiday themed weekend every year where they bring in snow, they decorate the train and surprisingly it's not crowded on Sunday mmorning. Last weekend, I took the boys and Romanwas able to go tubing down a snow slope, ride the choo choo to his hearts delight and rode amusement park rides fearlessly and all by himself. Poor kid, he played so hard, by the time we were exiting the freeway he was zombified-
No, for all of those of you who are bound to ask, we did not see Santa this year. Mostly he didn't seem interested- believe me Roman had the opportunity early one morning to have Santa all to himself and showed no interest in the guy with the red suit. Also, he might have been freaked out, and that's just not worth spending 30+ min in line. Maybe next year if he shows more interest.

Roman on the steam roller

Quite often Roman gets preferential treatment. Here's a great example of all of us going out to see the construction at Oma and Opa's. Roman is fascinated with contstruction vehicles, and the gentlemen working on the street gave Roman not only a front row seat, but their seat and drove him up and down a good patch of road

Here are some pics from it

Roman playing Rock Band with daddy

So I believe that my child is gifted, here's my best example, he picked up drumsticks for the very first time and this was the result

Roman's choo choo

After much prodding and his apparent love for trains, Mommy broke down and got hin his very own train. To my surprise, daddy and Roman played for 2hrs non stop. Here you can see Roman adding to the tunnel

Roman practicing his reading

Trimming the Tree with Roman

Roman had lots of fun being a big boy this year and helping to decorate the tree and play under the mistletoe. He's had as much fun removing ornaments as he did trying to figure out how to put them on the tree.

His favorite was putting candy canes on- seeing as how they were the easiest. But from stretching out bundled lights, untangling garland to ornaments and listening to holiday music, he is loving every minute of the season.

baking with nana

Roman loves making holiday treats with nana, adding ingredients and stirring and mixing. He also likes the eating part

movie phone 3

SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH

more daddy phone films

Digging in the dirt

Movies found on daddy's phone

Say Hi Roman

Reading with Oma

Oma is also a fan of children's books and was delighted that Roman took it upon himself to cozy up in her lap and share a story

Fishing thru Daddy's phone

We were going thru Dave's collection of photos on his phone so...in no particular order or age- get ready to smile

Thanksgiving in NC- Part 1

We made the trek out to NC for Thanksgiving- we normally go around Christmas, but mom keeps booking weddings.

Anyway, it was the BEST trip evr! Roman was well behaved and everyone left happier than they arrived. We spent time visiting Oma and Opa, where Roman got to read stores, play blocks and ride on a steam roller- by himself (video and pics to come)

Thanksgiving morning we visited with Roman's God Parents, Geoff and Celyn at Marcine's house, where Roman inhaled Marcine's apple pancakes and made everyone say "aww". Thanksgiving was spent with Gram, Grandpa Charlie, the Bernards, Johnsons, Trimmers, and lots of others. Roman was able to run around with his cousins, show off his reading and phonetic skills, give lots of hugs and be in TONS of photos. We missed meeting Abigail- James and Lauren's baby, but we understand them not wanting to travel with a new baby.

Then on our last day in town we visited Sarah, ate yummy mexican food, played at the park and ran around the RDU meeting all kinds of other toddlers.

All in all a wonderful travel and holiday experience.