We love it when Nonni comes to visit! We hadn't seen her since Thanksgiving, so we were super excited to be seeing her again! The night before she headed up here, Thomas stole my phone while I was making dinner (and texting her!). He loves sending emoticons when he can, so he started sending her a stream of them.
She, of course, had no idea it was Thomas and couldn't figure out what "her daughter" was trying to tell her.
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I can also send text messages from my laptop, so I let my mom know who was actually texting her. After that, it was hard to tell who was most excited!
See what I mean? ;)
And then she was finally here! Thomas was more than happy to show his Nonni the ropes in playing with play-doh. They use cookie cutters at school to play with the play-doh, which is super convenient since we have a ton of easy to clean plastic ones!
Haha - he looks so concerned! I wonder if Nonni was doing it correctly??
It looks like she did a pretty good job, huh? Notice the combination lock on the table. This kid finds the most random things and holds on to them like they are pure treasures. His other current favorite is a keychain with a safety light on it - though according to him, it's his keys!
Oh and not random, but one of his favorite things - his camera! I think it's the first camera Matt and I ever bought after we got married. We researched and got the best one in our price range with a highly recommended Schneider lens. And now it's our two year old's toy. Crazy.
I've been trying to teach him to look through the viewfinder, but he hasn't quite gotten the concept. He's holding it up to his face, but as you can probably tell that he's not got his eye anywhere near the viewfinder. Ha!
But he's certainly got the looking after shooting down ("chimping" is the slang term for that). His favorite part of the photos is seeing what he took a photo of. His aim is improving, which just makes him more excited to shoot more photos!
His subject of the night was his Nonni. She looks pretty excited about the photo! I haven't even looked at them yet. That's not very supportive of his photography hobby, huh? I'll grab his best ones soon and post them, I promise!
What a happy little photographer! Man, I love this little guy. Not hard to see why, is it? :)
And since we booked Mom's ticket up on Valentine's day, we had a nice steak dinner in celebration. I sent Matt out for some last minute ingredient and he came back with roses for me and a set of roses for Thomas to give to Nonni and Aunt Heather. They were both pretty ecstatic. I didn't get any photos of it, but if it was 1/10th as cute as when he ran up to me with roses at the airport, then it had to have made their day!