All in a Day!

Since Gentry loves costumes soooo much, he often changes outfits numerous times during the day. Usually it drives me crazy and I limit Gentry to 3 changes per day. Although, often times he begs to change more!! I decided I would let him changed clothes as many times as he wanted just for one day. I took pictures of each "costume" he changed into through the day...let me just say it was a very long day!! The first 2 pictures are what he does with the clothes he wants to wear the next day.

He leaves his spidey outfit out in the bathroom just in case "bad guys come at night, I can put on my spidey clothes and beat them up"

He hangs up his work clothes on my dresser, that way "he can get ready for work like dad"

Work clothes first thing in the morning!

He wore his Santa jammies for nap time, with his horse house shoes.

This was his "ninja" costume

He says this is his "Jeffrey Swanson clothes" As you can tell from Gentry's costumes, Jeff has 2 pairs of clothes...either a suit...or his undies :) And Gentry likes to copy both!!

Wolverine

Gentry's homemade spidey costume. It consist of his blue firetruck jammies inside out, a red spidey shirt over, his black soccer socks, and black spidey gloves.

Not sure what this one was.

A little veterinarian taking care of all the stuffed animals.

He was a King for a short time.

Ended the day as spidey with a GI Joe mask to go on our walk!


Yes you counted right, he changed 10 times in one day! This is why I have a love hate relationship with Gentry's costumes!! I love them because his imagination is so cute and creative, and yet it makes so much clean up and laundry for me!!

Gentry's Favorite present..."Sugar Cheerios"

My mom and sister think I am cruel...but I kid you not, my son loved this present!! I have to preface this video with the fact I have NEVER bought Gentry "sugar cheerios" (also known as any sugar cereal). He calls any sugar cereal "sugar cheerios" because all he ever gets is plain cheerios so he thinks anything that taste different must be "sugar cheerios". I am sure he has had them at grandparents house, but he knows that is not something I am willing to buy. SOOOO for Christmas I thought it would be fun to surprise him with a some. I will just let the video and pictures speak for themselves...mom and Tandi, I am obviously not cruel...he LOVED them!!

Christmas

Here are pictures from our fun filled morning! I didn't get a picture of the yummy homemade cinnamon rolls that Jeff made but they were so delicious!!

Uncle Jeff playing Polly Pockets with Liv, he's so great :)

G got a spiderman shave kit, so put on a mustache for most of the morning :)

Tan was super excited about her UGG's :)

Jeff enjoyed some new ties, a new fedora, and a frame to put his diploma in!

Such a blessed little boy!

Transformers...expect nothing less little man!

The one gift that wasn't Polly Pockets :)

They couldn't wait to open presents!!!!

Santa brought G a Spidey "ScOOOter", he's been riding it around the house the last 2 days pretending he is a cop, since it's all snowy outside!

Christmas Eve

Here are some pics of our Christmas Eve! We had a really special year, it was the first time we had Christmas just with our family. It was a little sad not to be near all our family but it turned out really special. We started our own traditions: Christmas Eve dinner is straight from New Mexico! Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas, Tandi's Amazing queso, guacamole, spanish rice, chips, and top it all off with margaritas! (After the kids go to bed of course!)

Then we read the "Twas the Night Before Christmas", and the Christmas story of Jesus. And a highlight of the evening was having the kids sing Christmas songs. Gentry mixes the songs together a bit, but Olyvia just invented her own Christmas song...we were impressed! :)

3 Little Peeps ready for Santa!

Twas the Night Before Christmas

G singing Jingle Bells

Liv singing Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, like you have never heard it before! :)

Christian singing Frosty the Snowman

Polar Express Party!

We recently went to hang out with some friends and have a Polar Express Party :) The boys all wore their jammies, got to drink hot chocolate, and watched the Polar Express. They were so cute! Not sure the watched the whole movie but they did get in some good sword fighting time :)

All the boys minus Brody :( We missed you!


This might have been the quietest that I have ever seen this group of boys when they are together!

Gentry and Elmo Perform Together

My mom got Gentry one of those little learning leapad things that has games and activities. It also has a microphone. Here is a video of him singing along with Elmo, he even tried to sing in the same key as Elmo :)

Family Date Night!

We decided we needed a little family fun time so decided to go eat at a local pizza shop and ice skate after. It was G's first time ice skating and we had such a good time. As you can tell from the video it might take g a couple of times to get the idea of "skate"! :)

My morning Posse

Lately Gentry has been waking me up in the morning with a little group of peeps I like to call my morning posse. He climbs into bed and then tucks himself and his friends in right next to me. I'm not sure I like this group he hangs out with yet, they have a bad habit of getting up early and G seems to be following their bad influence. This group of thugs might not be the best influence but G sure does like them. What does a mom do? I don't want to lose my boy, but I really need to sleep until 7! :)

Christmas Musical

G was checking out the little cutie next to him :)

The whole preschool gang!

Gentry sang in the Children's Christmas musical this year. Preschoolers only did 2 songs before the actual play, and I might be a little biased but it was sooo cute!! We were afraid G wouldn't sing and just stand there embarrassed but he actually sang, rang his little bells and smiled! :) Who knew our little introvert could be a performer!

Favorite Conversation of the Day...

G has been so sweet this year about Christmas. Most times when we ask him what he wants, he says "I don't really know". But occasionally he admits what he really wants. One is a dog named Pluto and a tweety bird. They go together every time for some reason. The next is...

Gentry: "I want a little sister named Exodus, and we can call her Pebbles. Exodus Pebbles"

Really????? So obviously he is an only child and wants a sibling but I couldn't keep a straight face when he informed us of his name choice. His latest memory verse comes from the book of Exodus and he has been fascinated with saying Exodus since then, I just didn't realize how fond of the name he was :)

Oh sweet boy I wish you just wanted some toys or something that was easier to come by than animals and babies! (Don't judge but we told G that Santa ran out of animals this year and there were no puppies or tweety birds left!) So sad but seriously what could we do, these have been the only things he asked for. We haven't figured out how to break the news about a sibling yet...