christmas playgroups

i am not a Grinch. i swear. but i also don't have many "themed clothes" for lawton. his grandmother bought him the santa john-john in the next few pictures and i do think it is cute we just don't do those everyday...not that there is anything wrong with it, it just isnt' lawton's style...he told me that, by the way. BUT, poor lawton only has one, so we wore TN clothes to the christmas playgroup on Wed. bah humbug! ginny had some reindeer ears for mista, so he had some spirit! here are a few of the kiddos. most were MIA with colds...sniff sniff!

lawton, james and anna - she is not happy


holden mad as hell, eliza always ready for a picture, robert confused as to why all these kids are over at his house, lawton chillin, james touching lawton inappropriately, and anna melting down

and this is where the ears ended up..nothin beats the taste of felt!



thursday at playgroup we celebrated ben and baker's first birthday! ali and leigh went all out...made ornaments for the kids, had a buffet and best of all SANTA!
poor baker ended up with a fever and had to miss his party ;-(...sounds like me on my 30th!

ben hoce the birthday boy
leighton, court and lawton. poor court can't breathe with such a heavy load on top of him! leighton is in awe of this large head full of brains that she just had to touch!

us, elizabeth and reynolds and elizabeth and court

and here is santa for the 3rd time this year! again, a laughing/whining shot
see what i mean about the outfit? so cute, but obviously we don't have shoes to match.

i mean, seriously...how good is this santa? this isn't a hubby wrapped up in fur and velvet...this is dang Chris Kringle! pat on the back ali and leigh...such a fun birthday party!