He's Such a Little Man

Just as a catch up, here's the letter Cody wrote to Santa, all by himself. (Click on each image to enlarge.) He insisted on taping the three sheets of paper together, so first is the Santa triptych.

Here are the individual pages:

And here's the letter Santa left him, which he read all by himself.

Before we left, we had that backhoe in our front yard. Just look at him:

And here he is a few days ago, holding his sis when she jumped into his arms:

But the big news is that last weekend I took him down to EI to work on the beach house together. We did all sorts of guy stuff: dinner at a sports bar; watching our first Eagles game together at home over pizza; walks on the cold, winter beach. And lots of hard work--building bookcases, miter sawing, moving beds and rebuilding bed frames. I didn't get many pictures, but here's a little video after I turned over to him the job of removing all of the screws from the slats on the bunk bed so that we could re-size them. Watch how he handles the Bosch drill:

What a little man.