Tommy Eats Christmas

Tommy discovered today that Christmas is all about celebrating the joy of the season and spending time laughing with your family. If you can achieve copious amounts of drool while you're at it, so much the better. The important thing is to keep smiling.


It's hard to tell, but in this picture, Thomas is playing with a new toy truck. He's become so excited about the holidays that he's not only lost the ability to walk, he's even been rendered incapable of sitting. I can't say I blame him. Toy trucks are pretty exciting. If someone gave me a toy truck, I might just fall over too.


Finally, we see Tommy engaging in the traditional Christmas activity of all young children everywhere -- ignoring the gifts in favour of playing with whatever the gifts came in. In this case, he's investigating the nutritional properties of wrapping paper. It turns out that Frosty, while tasty, is not nearly as filling as you might think. Still, Tommy continues to carefully investigate other forms of wrapping paper, just to be sure.

Zzzzzzz

As you can see here, Thomas is even cute when laying perfectly still doing nothing but breathing. Play the video for the cutest little snoring you'll ever hear...

(Unfortunately, he's snoring that loudly because he's sick. Poor little monster.)

New toys

Tommy received many lovely gifts for his birthday. Most of them have many, many pieces and he took everything apart all at once.


Then, rather than watching a movie with us, he decided to look at the TV from the wrong side.

Why is everyone staring at me?

Thomas got started in his birthday cake a little early. While I was decorating his cake, he tried a bit of the icing to make sure that it was good enough for his guests.

The finished product. It tasted better than it looked.

Daddy helped blow out the candle.

Thomas was wondering what was in the cake. No one else was eating. Everyone was staring at him. Waiting for something. But what?

Laurie decided to show him how it is done, this cake eating business.

Who's afraid of the big bad cow?

Thomas is trying out his Stare Of Doom(TM) as part of his costume as an evil, soul-devouring cow for Hallowe'en.


Oh wait, it turns out he's not an evil cow so much as a silly cow. Huh. Well, that's good too. On a side note, it's worth pointing out that getting this picture involved considerable restraint on Andrea's part, as she was desperately fighting the urge to nibble Thomas's toes. Don't they look just nummy?


In the end, we had to take the costume off. Thomas was not thrilled about being a cow. Which might actually explain the look he was giving in the first picture. Still it was cute while it lasted.