Dear Santa ...

Words are Chippy's ... Mummy just wrote them down!

More Silliness!

The Weekend

We saw snow this weekend for the first time this season!  We didn't get outside much though - except to accompany dad to Golf Town!  Instead, we stayed inside and made pancakes for lunch (Chippy's suggestion) and acted silly by putting on Chipette's pants!!  Chippy was quite sneaky today ... after finishing his own snack (without sharing), he came out of the kitchen with 'a snack for mommy' (i.e. animal cookies).  Then he offered to open it for me, at which point he suggested that I could have one, and he could have one, too!  This continued for some time until he started counting the remaining cookies and decided the rest were his!

Dunning was officially banned from the upstairs after being found lounging on Big Spot!!! 

Santa Parade

Saturday night was the Santa parade, and boy did Chippy have fun!  There were fire trucks, motorcycles, monster trucks, big rigs, police cars and busses.  Chippy waved at everyone and generally seemed to be in awe of the lights and the steady stream of vehicles!

Chippy had a dentist appointment today where he managed to get one tooth cleaned!  They confirmed that all molars are in - so now Chippy has to start flossing.  We went to the grocery store after his app't and Wee M and Chippy sat together in the buggy.  Can't say it was a resounding success, but no one was crying when we left!

Chippy's favourite toy right now is his scissors!  He uses them every day, usually telling me 'I'll be right back' before going to get them out of his drawer.  He uses them to cut practically everything he can - from cereal boxes to cardboard boxes, to food, to colouring books.  He also likes to have a knife with his dinner.  He is the official cutter for Wee M's food - cutting her grapes and other fruit into smaller pieces.  He's not much into sharing with Wee M right now.  I've asked a couple times recently if he'd share his little elf snack with her and eventually, if she's lucky, he'll break off a teeny, tiny little corner and say that it's for her.  :)

The Space Martian

Previous to the time change Chippy would get up when the sun got up ... which was a reasonable hour.  Now that the sun gets up too early in the morning, we have had to come up with another plan.  Enter the green space martian!  He glows green when it's time to get up. I read online about parents who said that their kid stayed in bed until it turned green on the very first night they used it.  Sure enough - Chippy stayed in bed this morning until the martian turned green!  Worth every penny!

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo...

... how about you, you, you?

Chippy sent Bean into the tunnel first before going in himself!

While this looks impressive, it was the chomping Hippo
that was #1 in Chippy's books!

Watching the baboons!

Daddy's Home!

Daddy came home last night and Chippy turned into a cheese-head! :)

Breakfast

We have some work to do on our current breakfast situation.  Normally Chippy starts out with cereal - 3 ways, and if mummy has time some hot cereal as well.  This then leads into fruit, waffles, yogourt, toast, bread, etc.  However, if he doesn't get his choice of breakfast item when he wants it and how he wants it (i.e. don't even THINK about cutting his bread/toast!) ... (and remember to offer him the option of pressing down the toast button) ... (and he gets what he wants regardless of whether he's finished the first item) ... then be ready for a meltdown of epic proportions!  However, I must admit, he does eat a lot for his breakfast!  This morning he had 3 waffles, yogourt, apple sauce and raspberries.

Go Fish, Grammy!