Over Thanksgiving in Rochester, we visited the mall Santa on a whim. There was no line (which was something I wasn't looking forward to at some of the malls near home), so we just went for it. I'm glad we did, because this was the only time the kids ended up seeing Santa this year!
We also went to cut down our tree as per Griswold tradition with Mimi Irene, Papa Bob, and Atie Shell. We didn't take our regular trip up to the Poconos/Jim Thorpe, but stayed close to home. It was super cold that day!
Lucas helped cut out and decorate sugar cookies this year! He is such a great helper in the kitchen when it comes to baking! Darby supervised the decorating activity :)
David and Claire were a little young to help with decorating the tree this year, but Lucas had a blast!
The tree provided much excitement for the first few days...the kids wanted to play with all of the ornaments. We put the non-breakable ornaments near the bottom and attached the tree to the window with twine...so, there were no ornament tragedies or fallen-tree mishaps! We tried to deter the kids from touching the ornaments by putting the ottoman and babygates in front of the tree, but that just proved to entice them even more! Once we moved all deterrants, it only took about a day for the tree to lose it's luster. Let's see what happends when we have 2 mischievious two year olds and the tree next year!
Watching Rudolph in our Christmas jammies!
Constructing and decorating a gingerbread house!
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