Winter blues

The holidays go by WAY too fast!!! We had a great Christmas. Sean loved leaving cookies & food out for Santa & his reindeer. He's was in awe when he woke up Christmas morning and the food was all gone. He "knew" that Rudolph had been there. Everything he opened Christmas morning got an "oh wow" or "oh boy". He really likes getting presents and it was a major disappointment to him when that stopped. I can understand where he's coming from, I just wish I didn't have to deal with the tantrums & such. The world revolves around Sean. We must find a way to break this or at least start easing out of it. We went to Aunt Pam's Christmas Eve, Grandma & Puppa came over Christmas morning, we went to Grandma Sue & Grandpa Larry's for breakfast after that and we finished the evening with Grandpa Jim coming over for dinner. New Years Eve, Jason and I went bowling with Mary & Scott. Sean stayed with Grandpa Jim. New Years day, Sean & I went to my mom's house. Good thing because he was supposed to go back for some lasagna later that day and ended up sleeping for 3 1/2 hours and missing the visit! Friday night, Sean & Daddy went to dinner with Grandma Sue & Grandpa Larry. Sean loves HuHot!!! Saturday morning we went to breakfast with Grandma, Puppa & Aunt Mary. That night, we went to the Linenger's house for some old small group fellowship. Sean was in heaven!!! Kevin had tons of wooden trains & track. Megan put together a huge track in the basement and Sean was lovin' it! Yesterday we laid low for most of the day. Tried to get things in order before we had to go back to work. :( We went to Connor's 3rd birthday party at Rainforest Cafe at night. Sean LOVED it!!! He kept Grandpa Jim busy.

Have I ever mentioned that Sean's the smartest kid alive? :) He seriously knows ALL of his Thomas trains. The ones he has, the ones he doesn't. Well, on Friday night, we was watching a video and in the video, Douglas (one of the Scottish twins) is pushing a brake van. He starts to ram into it and the brake van says, "Don't do that! Don't you know I'm essential?!?". So Sean says, "My no have essential, my need essential". He doesn't know that the train's name is "brake van". Just this morning he said to me, "mommy, you get me essential?". I love him...