'Tis the season for....

....visiting Santa and giving him the Christmas list. She wasn't even scared this year to talk to Santa and sit beside him. When he asked her what she wanted, she said she wanted a Barbie and a princess castle. And when he asked what Cameron wanted, she said "Maybe he wants a train." I tried to put Cameron down with them but he totally freaked out and wanted NOTHING to do with Santa. So I put him back in his stroller.













The kids both got a sucker afterward, but it was a huge rectangular caramel sucker that should not be given to kids. Nevertheless, Cameron sucked on his happily while we walked around the mall and didn't make any kind of noise so I didn't pay much attention to him. When we were in the Disney store a while later, I looked down to see him still enjoying the sucker but with sticky sucker drool ALL over his hands, shirt, pants and face. It was a trade-off.


.....and making graham cracker houses with friends. Our friends Laura and Kart came over with their two kids to make houses with us. Logan looks forward to this tradition every year and plans out some new house design to build. This year he made a tree house, and it turned out really great. Leah enjoyed putting candy on the house we made together, and she kept wanting to put more and more candy on it. So by the end it looked like a candy bag exploded on our house.

Kart and Laura are both creative artists and made really clever houses as well. Even though we tried to keep the candy away from the kids, they still ate lots of it and we did too.