Sawyer sings Rudolph as Rudolph

With the Christmas season upon us, Sawyer (now a three-year-old!) has embraced the season.

So much so that we now have to call him Rudolph.

He calls me Donner, and Cindy is Clarisse (if you don't know who that is, it's been a while since you've seen the old classic tv Rudolph).

Anyway, tonight we got him on camera singing Rudolph, The Red Nose Reindeer...in character.

Notice how he changes the lyrics (on the fly) to be in the first person.

I especially like the ending: "You'll go down in my story!"

First Day of School

Sawyer started at his new school on Friday. He was so proud to find his nametag!

Soccer class!

Sawyer just completed his second eight week "soccer class."

I use quotation marks because they don't really play soccer -- there's a lot more bubble chasing than ball kicking -- and it isn't really much of a class. Still, we've been doing it for the last 16 weeks or so, and it's become our Saturday morning routine.

Anyway, here's a little snippet of video from the final class. This was how it went: the "coach" would call your name, you would go jump over some cones and then score a goal. But after Sawyer saw the first kid go, he wanted to go without waiting his turn. When I didn't let him, he threw an enormous fit -- and coach Lalah called his name during the fit, and of course he wouldn't go at all.

After everyone had gone she gave him one more chance, and he did great.

Proudest moment?

It may be a father's proudest moment when his son first quotes a movie (even if he doesn't know he's doing so) -- especially when the movie is a classic screwball comedy such as Sixteen Candles.

Last night as Sawyer was eating dinner, he picked up some food and said "I want to run with it."

I, using my best Grandpa Howard imitation, replied, "Well you don't run with it, boy, you eat it! Hahahahaha!"

Without batting an eyelash, Sawyer immediately replied, "Not run, eat" followed by the hilarious Sawyer-imitating-Dad-imitating-Grandpa-Howard laugh.

Cindy and I doubled over.