The snow/cold has officially arrived here and has added to the holiday feel and building of excitement! On Monday, I got this picture at work from Mike. The boys were SO excited to go out and play in the snow, he let them run around the deck for a bit then in for some hot cocoa.
Tuesday's project with Bamma was super cute handprint/snowmen ornaments. We are proudly hanging them on our tree now!
Tuesdays generally mean donuts with Bamma...
...and cozy couch naps with Bampa!
Today (Wednesday) we tackled getting from this...
to this! All cleaned up and nice for Santa. We practiced our smiles and our polite words for the Jolly Man. They were all pretty gung-ho about the mission. We were at the mall by 10:40am to wait for Santa's arrival at 11:00am. If you can ever be in line for Santa's arrival, I highly recommend it. The anticipation, the empty chair, and then we heard the jingle bells and the deep "ho, ho, ho!" And, THERE HE WAS! There were coy waves as we waited our turn and then they all hopped on the big guys lap!
And VOILA, the annual picture. Pretty much how we expected: Noah going for the smile points because he's the people pleaser, Isaac smiling like a cute baby with promises of lunch to follow, and Sam just being (sigh) Sam. He really was excited to see Santa, and very polite and very willing to talk to him. But when it came to smiling time, this is what we got.
Despite the bitter cold, the older two again really wanted to get outside. So we put Isaac in his bouncy seat in the kitchen so he could watch and the big guys and I went out and shoveled our deck off. How cute are overall snowpants, really?!
Hope the season of anticipation is going well for you all and everyone is staying warm!
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