Elves, Nutcrackers & Candy Canes, oh my!

It's full-on Christmas time around here at the Heckman household. We had all sorts of fun this weekend, including another crazy visit from our resident elf, Percy. On Saturday morning, we found him "fishing" on our coffee table:

Also, on Saturday, we got a visit from my parents, which is always fun. My mom got to give Parker his first candy cane. It was so cute! At first he was confused by it. Then he tasted it, and well, you can imagine the amount of drool that followed! Both he and my mom were covered in red baby slobber. Too bad he kept trying to bite off pieces of it, because we had to take it away fairly quickly after that.

"Hmmm... what is this red and white striped object?"

 "This actually tastes pretty good!"

"Maybe I could bite off a piece?"

"Man, this is really good."

 Saturday evening we went to see one our friend's daughters perform in The Nutcracker ballet. It was such a sweet show with all the little kids performing at their best.

Here is Payton all excited and jacked up on sugar from the brownie he got at the snack bar in the lobby:

Here is the best picture I could get of our friend's daughter as one of the angels in the performance:

 This is Payton 10 minutes later:

Can you tell that he's asleep on Brian's lap? I couldn't use a flash, so the picture isn't great, but I had to take it. Guess I won't be taking him to see The Nutcracker every year like my mom and I always did when I was growing up. Maybe I can hijack my friend's daughter and take her? :)

Oh, and since I'm showing you some of my iphone photos... look what I found on there today:

Looks like someone had a little fun while I wasn't looking! What a cutie pie.