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I took the kids to see Santa today. Marissa had the sweetest request for a present, she wants a bouquet of flowers for her Christmas present. She later theorized on the ride home about how "ice flowers" might grow from the ice in the North pole. I can't wait to see her beautiful Christmas bouquet under the tree. She also asked for a new ornament for the tree. She has been really into the Christmas spirit this year, she would be pleased to do a Christmas activity everyday of the week I think. Her school is doing a holiday program and today they took a field trip to the middle school where they will perform 2 songs on Thursday. She told me with huge eyes, "Mom, the middle school kids have THE MOST BEAUTIFUL voices EVER. You would not believe how good they can sing." It was pretty cute. She is also very excited, as am I to go and see The Nutcracker on Saturday. Every year when I was a little girl, my family and I would go and see a local performance of The Nutcracker. I am so excited to continue the tradition with Marissa.
Oliver did great sitting on Santa's lap! I was totally uncertain if he would actually go up to the big man or not, but he did! It was kind of funny though, because he was walking right up to him and decided that would be the moment to pick his nose. Right away Santa told him, he better not pick his nose, which duh, I agree, but isn't Santa supposed to be all nice to kids? Is that really the thing to say to a 2 year old to get them to warm up to you? Oliver was so cute, telling him in his little 2 year old voice, "I wanta race car." Which this Santa was totally unresponsive to, just giving the kids directions on where to look for the photo. Then Santa proceeded to poke Teddy's nose with his white gloved finger several times, ew! How many babies had he done that too, I wonder? Please don't let us be sick again on Christmas! Anyway, maybe next year we will go see Santa when he first comes out for visits, I think he was a little burnt out by this point in the season. It made me a little sad to see Oliver's face go from looking all excited to kind of sad being scolded. Oh well. I was just so proud of him to go on up there! What a big boy!
Teddy was amicable as usual with Santa. That kid loves people. We went back to the pediatrician's last week to check up on how his ears were healing post another ear infection. He literally reached for all the nurses and our pediatrician to take him and then proceeded to give them the sweetest cuddles ever. He is such a total little love. I could snuggle him all day if he would let me. It's a good thing he is so into crawling around though, because he is too heavy to hold for long.
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Some of Teddy's Milestones:
November 6: First time sitting
November 11: First time scooting
Early December/late November: crawling faster every day
December 3: First tooth (bottom right) bottom left is about to push through any day.
7 months old and size 12-18 month clothes are fitting perfectly on him. Yikes. I thought I would be able to use all of Oliver's clothes for them since there birthdays are so close together, but now I am not sure how long that will last.
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Holiday things left to do:
Bake and decorate Christmas cookies with the kids.
Gingerbread houses. I'm hoping I don't have to bake these from scratch, I can't find a kit anywhere. Next year I will buy them way earlier and advent calendars too! November, I promise.
