Santa Paws came

Wow, Santa Paws was really good to me this year. It took years but I finally have a Maple Leafs jersey in my size, I was very happy to see that because we were starting to get frustrated at not being able to find one.

Another thing Santa Paws brought me was a chew mat, daddy says that Santa Paws wants me to chew on more stuff, it'll help keep me away from the vet.

My stocking with stuff from Santa Paws in it

My Leafs jersey, now we just need a reason for me to wear it

Daddy had to bribe me to come take a picture with my new chew mat

I was more interested in grooming then playing at the time

I mean jez, daddy had just let me out, I do have my routine

Oh, and Santa Paws was good to daddy too. He got two tool kits for working on his costume and other things. One is a thing sort of like a Dremel, it can do all sorts of things. Cutting, grinding, sanding and drilling to name just a few things it can do. He also got a tool that can bigger cutting and sanding jobs that the other one can't do.

Daddy's new tools

The rotary tool, still in it's box

The tool and all the accessories it comes with.

The other tool in it's box

The tool in it's case, with all the stuff it comes with.

The carry case.

Mommy Louise sent daddy an egift card from Amazon, so daddy found a case for his cell phone (he's going to attach it to his gauntlet armor, then he can have access to his cell phone while in costume). He also got a case for his tablet. Both of those things are very hard to find accessories for in real stores here, so he's glad he found the things online. The tablet case will be here on New Years Eve day, and the one for the cell phone will get here by the middle of January.

Oh, speaking of mommy Louise. Daddy tells me that my furiends Sasha and Coco have a present for us bunnies, we've got a present for them too.

Daddy is hoping that all of us can get together to do something, hopefully New Years Eve. After all, daddy went out and bought a new dress shirt and a new vest (just so he could put his new watch in it), and I want to be able to dress up fancy too.

Daddy decorated our temporary apartment as best he could (we can't put holes in the walls), but daddy put up our Christmas tree, and decorated my pen.

Our Christmas tree, only the middle has lights

My pen, with a fancy braided ribbon.

 Oh, and one last thing. We did get my human cousins presents too, for the older one Robbie (8) we got him a Star Wars: Rebels chapter book. And the younger one Arthur (1) we got him a Star Wars alphabet book.

The book for Robbie

Daddy wrote in the front of it, Merry Christmas Robbie, May the force be with you, always.

The cover of the alphabet book.

 Look closely at the top right of the picture, and you'll see a certain bunnies nose in the picture.

A page from the book, this is what the whole book is like

Another page from the book

According to grandma both boys loved their presents, so that makes daddy very happy.

Operation Share Star Wars

I posted on Thursday that Friday was Wear Star Wars Share Star Wars day, just a reminder about what this day means. It started in 2010 because a little girl named Katie who had been bullied because she liked Star Wars, what began as a simple blog post then has blossomed into a world wide day of charity. On the WearStarWars event page there were 896 people (and one bunny) registered to participate, by wearing Star Wars (or something Sci-Fi related) and donating a new unwrapped toy (again Star Wars or Sci-Fi related) with a note that says it can be for a boy or girl.

I can honestly say that me and daddy went all out for Katie and all the other girls that like Star Wars, we both went in full costume. Me in my TIE Fighter and Gray Jedi robes, daddy in his Mandalorian armor (neither of which is very warm).
Our mission didn't go quite to plan (but none ever do), the original plan was to drop off our toy at a televised event. Well, they weren't excepting toys there anymore, only food for the food bank. So we had to revise our plan, we were close to a major shopping center, and daddy remembered that there were two donation boxes in that mall. Another problem presented itself, where were those boxes. You would think that finding one in what is basically one long hallway would be easy, but not when there are three floors extending over two or three city blocks. Not to mention the information that the guy gave us at the "information booth" wasn't very helpful. "on the floor below, BEHIND the escalator".
I have to pause here for a second and rant, when someone refers to something being behind that should mean [in back of], for an escalator that would be opposite to where you get on and off, right? Well we looked, there wasn't a donation bin 'behind' the escalator. We were going to go back up and ask the info guy for better directions, we were waiting on the elevator to go up one floor when daddy started to consider just taking the escalator, when he glanced over there, what do you think he saw? Yep, it was the donation bin. It wasn't BEHIND the escalator, it was BESIDE it.
Okay, rant is over, back to the story. Once we had dropped off the toy in the bin BESIDE the escalator, we went up to check out the selection of Star Wars stuff in one of our two favorite Disney Stores. We also met up with one of our favorite cast members (Disney store staff are called cast members, instead of employees), remember, both me and daddy are in full costume still. The people in the store were awestruck by our costumes, we even had a request for a picture or two.

Oh, I can now reveal daddy's finished costume, at least the majorority of it. He might do little changes to it, but it should remain looking basically like this.

My Christmas greeting in Mandalorian, just because I can lol

Mini-ComiCON and other things

Last Sunday me, daddy and uncle Matthew went to a one day mini-ComiCON. It wasn't nearly as big as the other three we've been to, but it was still just as fun. Both me and daddy went dressed up, me in my new costume that daddy made for me. And daddy in his awesome Imperial Knights Gray Jedi costume that he's been working on since before Halloween. I think daddy is happy with the modifications he's done to it, and is now ready to do more ComiCONs in it. He's even found away to keep his head cool while wearing his helmet, the trick is he created 'pockets' at the back of the helmet, and inside he sticks little ice packs that can be switched out as needed. This should keep him cool enough that he won't need to keep taking his helmet off.

The Gray Jedi code

The I K of the Imperial Knights in Mandalorian

Daddy's helmet

Daddy's blaster

Daddy gave me a little bit of spending money so I could get Christmas presents, well I did get two. I can't tell you about the one I got for mommy Louise, cause she sometimes reads my blog, and that would spoil the surprise. I can, however, tell you about the present I got uncle Matthew, I got him a button. We'd been looking for a patch or pins, anything really, to do with Futurama. You see uncle Matthew has a new jacket that he wanted to put stuff on, so we looked, but were coming up empty. Until we found a place that did custom buttons, daddy got me one (more on that later), but I spotted one that was perfect for uncle Matthew, it was the logo from the Planet Express (the company from Futurama). To say that uncle Matthew was happy would be an understatement.

Okay now for the cool stuff that daddy got for me, and for himself. First my presents. I got a fancy bowtie to wear with my tartan vest when I have to dress up, it's Star Wars of course. I also got a new bandana to go on my harness, also Star Wars. Daddy got me a new thing to hang on my stroller, it says "Trust me, I'm a Jedi".

My new bandana

My new bowtie

Modeling my new bowtie, I'm such a handsome bunny

My new button

As for daddy he got himself a new holder for his transit pass, in Mandalorian colors with the Mando logo on one side of it. He also got himself something for those rare occasions when he dresses up nice, he got himself a new pocket watch, this one has the imperial gear symbol on the front of it.

Daddy's new pocket watch

The inside showing the face.

The back showing all the gears that make it work.

One side of daddy's transit pass holder, it has multiple pockets to put other cards

The reverse side of the pass holder, the window is where the pass goes. The holder sits in the shelf of my stroller.

Oh I almost forgot, daddy did something really cool for both mine and his costumes. He found a Mandalorian font online, and figured out how to draw the letters. What he did was put my name in Mandalorian and attached it to the front of my TIE fighter. He did the same for his name, and attached it to the shoulder armor on his costume. He even drew the Mando symbol, and painted it on to the other shoulder armor.

My name (Sunki) in Mandalorian

Daddy's name (Casper) in Mandalorian

I just looked back through the pictures and realised I didn't show me in my costume, so here's two pictures of me in my costume.

Being in costume makes me hungery

Yep, I am a Gray Jedi, and a handsome one at that.

And one last thing, today December 19th is Wear Star Wars Share Star Wars day. It is where we celebrate the diversity in the Star Wars universe, and say that it is for everyone whether they be boy or girl, Jedi or Sith etc. It started back in 2010 because of a little girl named Katie who was being bullied because she liked Star Wars, from there it blossomed into an anti-bullying campaign world wide. So today me and daddy have a special mission, the Imperial Gray Jedi Knights are going to deliver a special Star Wars toy (in costume) to a drop off location where toys are being collected. Daddy even attached a note asking that the action figure (which is Luke Skywalker), be given to a little girl for Christmas.

I'll post another blog later to tell everyone how the mission went, and some pictures, maybe.

Oh what fun...... NOT!!!!!

Yesterday daddy got a call saying that our Christmas hamper was ready to be picked up. Now, Mother Nature decided to throw in a challenge and made it..... Ugh I can't even bring myself to say what was falling from the sky, okay, it was frozen precipitation that piles up. You're going to make me say it, aren't you? Fine, it was snowing, there I said it, happy? There was only supposed to be 5 - 10 cm (2 - 4 inches), but, the storm reached us, and stalled for the whole day. By the end of it, 25 cm (10 inches) had fallen. The trouble is my stroller isn't built to handle that much snow, so we had to leave it behind, and daddy carried me the whole trip. Which was fine, but it meant foregoing some of the luxuries of my stroller, such as food, and my warm blanket (to cover my butt). I did have my hoodie on, which only covers so much (it leaves my butt hanging out), daddy stuffed the back half of me into his jacket, which did keep me slightly warmer.

Oh, yeah, the fun stuff. The hamper included a BIG bag of our Martin food, gift cards to our favorite grocery store and something called a "bed in a bag", I thought it was one of those air mattresses, but it wasn't, it was sheets to go on daddy's bed.

Daddy is reminding me that I should add something else to this blog, I'm supposed to thank the family the sponsored us, the Community Center for having Christmas hampers and uncle Matthew who came out yesterday and helped bring the stuff back to our place, oh and the nice man who drove us home.