Post-Christmas

The rancor (a critter from Star Wars) helping us write thank you notes:

Coop and I watching a Star Wars movie over break (we watched many!):

Our friends Parker and Zachary stopped by over break:

Zac as a witch (with Darth Vader gloves?):

More Chrismtas

Coop got more legos from Aunt Julie:

And.... done!

This is Jordan, my cousin's son, reading a Star Wars book in the same series as Coop:

Playing Star Wars games on the wii:

Gifts:

Talking Star Wars with my cousin:

The kiddos:

Christmas at our house

Coop and I made haystacks (chow mein noodles, butterscotch chips, peanut butter, marshmallows) for Santa:

New Darth Vader jambes on Christmas Eve (to match the Darth Vader tree):

Santa came!  (Coop and I slept on the couch in an effort to catch Santa.  No luck!)

The best gift from Santa:

Coop and his gifts:

Starting on the lego gift from Santa:

Done!

Disney!

While we were in Florida, we took on day to visit Disneyland, focusing, naturally, on the Star Wars part.

Coop's absolute favorite part was building his own light saber:

Sitting on some Star Wars critter (I don't know...):

We took a break in the Star Wars action to see some Indiana Jones stunts:

Then back to the Star Wars area for Jedi training:

Darth Vader!

Coop got to battle Darth Maul:

Florida!

We took a quick trip to Florida before Christmas, and Cooper had a wonderful time hanging out with his older cousins:

Star Wars guys for Christmas!

On the plane ride home:

Karate, etc

Coop attended another birthday party at the karate studio.  His favorite part:  board breaking!

Coop and I had dinner one night where they serve chicken teriyaki in a bamboo log!

Coop passed his first belt test and graduated to a white belt with yellow stripe.  We enjoyed attending the belt graduation evening:

Christmas friends

Our friends Gus and Eleanor came over one Sunday afternoon.  Cooper Claus was ready with some gifts for them:

And then we did some painting:

Christmas preparations

Christmas tree!

New Darth Vader ornament:

And a karate ornament too:

And now the tree looks like this:

'Tis a Star Wars Christmas, it seems...

 Coop and I made gingerbread houses out of graham crackers and a bunch of candy:

And Coop visited with Santa, who assured him that the elves have been busy making tons and tons of lego toys for this Christmas: