Tommy has a friend

Tommy's friend Graham came over for a visit on Saturday. The two of them played all day, with hardly any sharing issues at all. They've even reached the stage where they actually play together sometimes, particularly if the tent has been pulled out -- they can play peek-a-boo for half an hour straight! Mostly they just look at each other and laugh and then shriek and then laugh some more. It's very cute. And, as you can see, they quite enjoy having each other around.

Tommy masters architecture

Here we can see Tommy learning all about architecture. He built this tower practically by himself, with only a little help from Daddy. As you can see, he's very proud of it. What you can't see, because it happened just a few seconds after the picture was taken, was Tommy testing the tower's strength... by pushing it over and laughing hysterically. That's Tommy.. Creator and destroyer.

You can also see the remnants of pink eye in this picture. His eyes were a lot worse a couple days ago. Poor kid could barely open his left eye on Thursday. :-( But he does seem to be feeling better now. So that's good. His eyes have improved a lot even since this picture was taken earlier today.

Tommy enjoys fine literature

Tommy took some time out of his busy schedule to enjoy one of the finer things in life -- great literature. I forget what exactly it was he was reading, something about animals -- Animal Farm, perhaps? At any rate, as you can see, it was enjoyable and engrossing, undoubtedly one of the greatest works of literature modern civilisation is capable of producing.

Tommy likes to share other people's stuff

Tommy decided to disguise himself the other day as a turtle. "Why," you may be asking, "would Tommy want to disguise himself as a turtle?" That's an excellent question. Really, only Tommy would be able to answer it. But at least part of it is because his friend Graham dressed up as a turtle for Hallowe'en and Tommy loves to look at those pictures, and we were over at Graham's house a couple weeks ago...

Tommy ponders the future

While visiting his friend Graham today, Tommy was faced with a number of difficult questions. You can see here Tommy pondering his first conundrum: whether Earth Dog and Space Dog can peacefully coexist, and together made to serve his future plans for world conquest.



And here you can see the depth of Tommy's anguish over his various dilemmas -- he's so worried that half of his face has imploded! Poor kid.

Random Christmas shots

Nothing too exciting going on here, just Tommy enjoying spending time with family. I think he was starting to get a bit confused as to why Catherine was spending so much time taking pictures of him rather than playing with him, but that's OK.


And here we have Tommy demonstrating to Daddy how to impale a basket of kittens on a marker. He's trying to ensure that he has no further problems with dissidents opposing his reign.

Cake is serious business

As you can see, Tommy takes his cake very seriously. It's important to eat cake properly -- any unseemly enthusiasm could diminish his stature as a future world conqueror.

(I'd kinda forgotten that I had pictures still sitting on my camera from Tommy's birthday.)