Note to readers: OK, I am all caught up, if not ten days behind. This is catch-up post three of three.

Happy Birthday to me!

At 5:28 pm today I will officially be 5. And to celebrate, I am going to the Charlie Brown Christmas ICE exhibit today with my family. What a fantastic fifth year I have had. And, a terrific last month! I wrapped up my second baseball season a few weeks ago. The last game was awesome! I got two hits off the pitcher! Very exciting. I also went to a couple of Allen American hockey games and a Texas Tornado hockey game this month. We celebrated my Grandma’s birthday with a party at cousin Abbie and Emily’s house. The only thing I love more than a party is being with Grandma and my cousins!

We took a big trip to the big city this month! That’s right … NYC! Daddy had work the first few days so me, Cara and mom hung out around the city. We rode the subway, which you may not know, but that is definitely one of my favorite things to do. We went to Central Park, FAO Schwartz, the NY Public Library, Mets clubhouse store, rode the ferris wheel at Toys R Us in Times Square and went to the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. It was lots of fun. Our hotel overlooked Madison Square Garden where the NY Rangers play hockey – I liked being so close to a hockey arena! We then drove to Long Island to visit our cousins – the Prices. I adore my cousin Owen. We played and had a great time together. On Wednesday, it was time to say good bye to the city and head upstate to visit our family. It was so fun seeing Meema and Papa and all my cousins. Everyone gathered for a big family Thanksgiving. It was also great to see my North Carolina cousins – Colin and Tyler. They are 14 and love to play football too. They were fun to hang out with. We also got to eat at several of our favorite places (mom calls it souvenir eating) and every morning Daddy went and got coffee at the Dunkin Donuts! We also went to see the world’s largest kaleidoscope and visited our favorite chocolate shop (mmmm, chocolate!). There were quite a few great pictures and memories.

Cara (25 months) is doing great. She continues to talk and will say anything that I say (Mommy says that she needs to watch herself)! I am really into Charlie Brown and the words “good grief” are uttered frequently by both me and my sister! Cara is learning her colors and her numbers. We went and saw Santa together last week. It didn’t go so well for her. She screamed like crazy. I told Santa what I wanted: a Nintendo DS and a sit up machine (for my exercise). Cara didn’t tell Santa anything, she just screamed. See the picture. Funny, this looks just like last year’s picture.

We also took some family photos last month. I included a couple of them for you to see.

Christmas is coming fast. I always love this time of the year. We have several fun things planned – gingerbread houses with my friends, pottery painting and cookie decorating. I am again in the Christmas pageant at church and will be an angel this year.

We are very much looking forward to my fifth birthday party this weekend. It is a hockey party and it is going to be at the Frontiers of Flight museum by Love Field in Dallas.

My mom put together a movie of pictures of me from the last five years – enjoy!

Until next year – I hope you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
love, Sean