My girls, still in their pajammies, are currently playing with Anna, Elsa, and some other Barbie-type dolls driving them in a school bus and a Little People chariot because that's how we all should travel, of course. Violet thinks she can run now since she started walking less than a month ago, so it's funny to watch her try to push the chariot or the bus along as fast as she can! The Steelers game is playing in the background, Andrew is playing Xbox online with his friends and George is sleeping. The sun is shining and even though it's 37 degrees, it is much happier than the rainy weather we have been having the last couple days.
Friday night, I had planned on taking the kids to the Children's Museum Christmas event to see a penguin and a reindeer, but it had rained all day long. It was still raining when we got home from Lily's school and a few errands and it was cold. The thought of dealing with traffic, parking and downtown stuff resulted in a "let's stay home" decision. We all ended up in bed pretty early Friday night anyway.
Saturday, we went to a local nursery near our house to visit Santa.
Lily isn't in the screaming phase anymore, but still isn't crazy about going up to him. Andrew decided to go over to Santa first to help his little sisters see it's ok.
Lily thought Violet should go first before her, so that's what we did. I stopped to get Violet a cookie first to keep her occupied and maybe she wouldn't really notice I'd set her down next to someone...
It didn't work out quite that way. She held on to her cookie though!
I asked Lily if she was ready and she said no. I picked Violet up and of course she was completely fine. I sat down next to Santa for a minute and Lily came over next to us comfortably. Baby steps, I suppose.
Lily asked Santa where Rudolph was and seemed satisfied with his answer. She replied that she wanted Frozen toys when he asked her what she wanted for Christmas. She wanted to talk to him, just not be right next to him and Violet, as you can see, was content again.
Lily and Andrew had their cookies and it was time to leave. As we drove away, Lily exclaimed excitedly, "We live near the North Pole!" I love that magic!
We headed home for the girls to nap before we were going to another local light up night event that evening. This one was in our old, old neighborhood before Lily was born, but it's where she goes to preschool. I was helping out with some crafts inside Lily's school for her teacher who was in charge of this entire event. You know, after just having given birth 5 days before!
Violet loved just walking around and trying to run inside Lily's school! The kids "painted" puffy snowmen made of shaving cream, glue, and glitter, colored in coloring books, and made candy canes. Andrew helped cut the red stripes for the candy canes to be glued on.
We headed outside to listen to some kids sing and watch some others dance before strolling by Santa and waving from afar. :) Violet was clapping along and "singing" too and both girls were dancing along as well.
Soon the evening had come to a close and it was time to go home. While the kids waited for me to get packed up and into the car, Lily could not take it anymore and zonked.
When we got home, I put the girls to bed, and watched the rest of my favorite Christmas movie, "It's a Wonderful Life" on tv. George has been working a lot of overtime lately, so in addition to it being tough with the overnight shift he works, he's been going in early too. It's simply the season we are in and I'm grateful for such a hardworking husband. I miss him too!
So much fun! I still love the crying picture of Violet!
ReplyDelete