Addy saw Santa 4 times this year, only one of which was purposely intentional. She loves any dressed up character and Santa is magical. The first time we were on the way to a baby shower and decided to spend some time at the mall before we went and well Santa was there before Thanksgiving... there was no line and the friendly little elf persuaded us to come and see Santa (who by the way was super sweet and spent quite a bit of time talking with Miss A). The second time was at the local mall with JT (this was the intentional one but you will notice later in this post that JT was not in the picture). The third time was at Macys where we went through their
Christmas display, and the fourth time, well the fourth time was last week at the grocery store. They had a dressed up santa (not a very good one) and I tried to avoid him but Addy saw him and wanted to go say hi. He was super nice and gave her a present with a soccer ball and frisbee in it! After we left him though she did say, "Santa looks different today"... I told her he changed clothes! Yikes! I love the magic of Santa, obviously he's not what Christmas is really about but he adds a little magic and if you read this letter (http://www.cozi.com/live-simply/truth-about-santa), it definitely has the CHRISTmas spirit... "love and magic and hope and happiness" just tie in the Christmas Jesus story in there and it could really show Christmas.
Addy was very sweet this year. She understood the meaning of Christmas. Knew who's birthday it was and why we give presents but that it was about spending time together, being thankful for Jesus, etc. So when asked what she wanted for Christmas, she said, "Well we have a lot of toys so don't really need those, and I don't need clothes, but Santa brings us presents so we should take them to be nice" (insert heart melt here!). Then as the holiday season went on she decided she wanted a Happy Napper (go ahead, google it, I didnt know what they were either!). And so Happy Napper she got from Aunt Robyn!
Ji'Robert didn't really understand that he could ask for something (we didn't ask him what he wanted) bu he was clear on one thing... NO SANTA, well not near him anyhow! We went to see Santa, waited in line and he was SUPER excited. And then it
came time to sit with Santa and he freaked out! Poor kid was not having any part of it! Then after we got outside the Santa set, he was super excited again, yelling thank you and good bye to Santa. Guess he's not a big fan of dressed up people!
Santa Number 1
Snow White decided to help decorate the tree this year!
JT was completely enthralled with the ornaments that he could see himself in! He was making tons of faces!
Sibling love!
One very proud tree decorator!
On Christmas Eve....
Meena and Papa came to celebrate Christmas eve and Christmas morning with us. The kids are always thrilled to have sleep overs!
One happy family.
Addy's new doll of which has had about ten thousand outfit changes already! She loves picking out the clothes and putting it on! Guess I'll have to dig out my old doll clothes from when I was little!
My pretty girl who wanted to take pictures in her Christmas dress.
And the boy who thought he wanted to take pictures and then decided against it.
Addy got a fun project from Jareds mom so we had to put that together right away. AJ wants it to go in my office at work so I'm going to somehow have to get it up there in one piece, oh "and you could put my picture in a frame next to it so everyone will know who made it for you" and so I will.
And so it was a lovely Christmas. Lovely family time.
Santa Number 4
We decorated the trees this year (4 to be exact, 1 full, 1 decorative, 1 3 foot, 1 tiny one) and even put them up right after Thanksgiving. The kids had a blast. JT didn't quite get the spreading the ornaments out part so his branches were quite full!
Snow White decided to help decorate the tree this year!
JT was completely enthralled with the ornaments that he could see himself in! He was making tons of faces!
Sibling love!
One very proud tree decorator!
On Christmas Eve....
Meena and Papa came to celebrate Christmas eve and Christmas morning with us. The kids are always thrilled to have sleep overs!
One happy family.
Addy's new doll of which has had about ten thousand outfit changes already! She loves picking out the clothes and putting it on! Guess I'll have to dig out my old doll clothes from when I was little!
My pretty girl who wanted to take pictures in her Christmas dress.
And the boy who thought he wanted to take pictures and then decided against it.
Addy got a fun project from Jareds mom so we had to put that together right away. AJ wants it to go in my office at work so I'm going to somehow have to get it up there in one piece, oh "and you could put my picture in a frame next to it so everyone will know who made it for you" and so I will.
And so it was a lovely Christmas. Lovely family time. To infinity and BEYOND!
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