Saturday

Anna enjoying the candy cane Santa Claus gave her. Last year, she called Santa "Ho-Hos" This year, she is saying, Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas! in a deep voice to impersonate Santa. What a difference a year makes in a young child's life!

Jonathan and Dave chowing down on their ice-cream treats.

Anna thought my butterscotch-dipped vanilla was "Ewww! That nasty, Mama!" Then when we left the ice-cream shop, a bunch of people were outside smoking. Anna said LOUDLY, "What's that smell?" And then she announced that "only bad guys smoked cigarettes."

Anna went right up to Santa and jumped up on his lap. She told him she wanted a cat for Christmas. (That is NOT going to happen!) I really thought she would be a little more cautious about approaching Santa. She's a 1,000 times braver than last year!

Jonathan was not about to sit on Santa's lap. I told him that was fine, and he just shook Santa's hand like a little man.

Anna wanted to wear her sunglasses even though it was dark. She's just that fabulous!

Anna and Jonathan sitting in the car next to Anna's pinata for her birthday tomorrow. Anna wanted a unicorn pinata. I could find a donkey for 12.99 at Target, and she totally thought it was a unicorn. Jonathan immediately said, That's not a unicorn! It has TWO horns, not one. Thankfuly, Dave thought quickly and said, It's a dualcorn. A unicorn with 2 horns. Jonathan and Anna both accepted this as fact. Daddys can often get away with stuff like this. I believed anything my Dad or my big brothers said at this age. Like you can plant popcorn kernels and grow popcorn trees.

Anna got her hair tangled and caught up in the fan of an unsafe toy. She must have switched it off before it got really close to her head and hurt her. The toy is in the trashcan, and we tried to work this super knot out, but all of the hair just fell out in one big clump. But she still has plenty more hair.

This weekend we went to see Santa at the ice-cream shop up the street from our house. Then we went to the Lightfest at Wickham Park and the kids loved that. Today after church Dave and I got to go out to lunch together alone. We tried a new place The Orchid Bistro, which was really yummy and very pretty inside. The food was also presented beautifully. We split a piece of chocolate mousse cake which was almost too pretty to eat. Almost. Then tonight we went Christmas carolling with church. Now we are at home working on Anna's birthday cake. Amanda lent me all the right tools, now we just have to see if I have the skills to do anything with them! I will post all the pictures tomorrow! (Or possibly tonight!)