Fun Christmas Activities

We spent the week before Christmas doing fun holiday activities. One morning Leo and I made cookies. I put out the big mat and Leo helped me mix the dough. When the cookies came out of the oven, I put him in his highchair and gave him the sprinkles! He LOVED decorating the cookies and when he found out that the sprinkles tasted sweet, he started licking the cookies and the extra sprinkles on his tray. Surprisingly the cookies turned out great!

My neighbor Alli hosted a little Christmas party for the neighbor kids. We did an ornament exchange, sang some songs, ate some cookies and listened to books. It was a very fun way for the kids to spend time together! Thanks Alli!

Macy's 8th Floor

Kevin, Leo and I went to Macy's 8th Floor Display the week before Christmas. It was amazing! The theme this year was Santa's Workshop. The displays were darling and so well done. We walked through a few times and then we saw a puppet show. Leo loved the show and sat still for 3o minutes while he clapped and watched the puppets sing and dance. After that we went to visit Santa. Leo was TERRIFIED! He clung to me and screamed the whole time we were by Santa. When we left the room he kept saying "Bye Bye Ho Ho, Bye Bye Ho Ho!" Poor guy! When we were done traumatizing him, we went to the Sky Lounge for lunch on the 12th floor. The views of the city were amazing and the lunch was delicious. It was a fun filled day for our family!

All Aboard!!!

Leo and I rode the train around Southdale the other day. We waved at all the customers and when it came to a stop he signed more, more! If you haven't been to Southdale lately, you should check it out! Fun and simple holiday cheer!

SNOW!!!!

We had a blizzard today! The snow started last night and it is still coming down 24 hours later. There is so much snow on the ground that we couldn't open our front door or even leave the house today. It is also very windy which means the snow is blowing and it looks like a total white-out! The temps are dropping and the high tomorrow is ZERO! Yikes!

For those of you who don't know, we like to go places and do things as a family on the weekends. By about 10 am we are ready to leave the house and go on an adventure. Well today, our adventure was staying inside because of the snow. We finger painted, played hide and seek with our PJ's and later with a dishtowel, played in the basement, ate a lot of snacks, made corn bread, took long naps, and invited our neighbor friends Bennett and Clare over to play! The kids came over after dinner in their jammies and we had snacks, hot chocolate (with Baileys for the mamas) and apple cider. It was fun to have a pajama party with them in the middle of a blizzard! We love having friends live so close that they can come over even in a blizzard! We rescheduled or family Christmas Card pictures for tomorrow morning and a birthday party for the afternoon so hopefully the weather will be better tomorrow! If not, we will have another snowy inside adventure!

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CHRISTMAS!!! We spent the weekend doing fun holiday activities. Leo and I went downtown Chaska on Saturday and saw Santa and went on a horse drawn carriage ride through town. Leo loved the carriage ride but was not a fan of Santa, I had to hold him in the picture and he was still screaming! It was COLD out but we were bundled up and Leo was nice and toasty in his snowsuit. The horses were decorated in holiday colors and jingle bells. We drank hot cider and sang carols. We had a great time! On Sunday Kevin got the Christmas decorations out of storage (his least favorite thing to do) and we decorated the house and set up the tree. We danced to Christmas music and hung the ornaments on the tree. Leo didn't really understand how to hook them on so he just pressed them against the branches hoping they would stick. Eventually he just started putting them under the tree. I love decorating for Christmas and enjoying our festive house throughout the month. Now on to the Christmas cards, baking and shopping...