Posing under the Christmas tree (Take 3)

About as good as it gets.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We finally got around to putting up the tree. I say finally because I have been begging Mom since Thanksgiving. So excited!!!

Santa Train

We went up to Georgetown to visit Santa and ride a train! Although I was so excited to see Santa, once we were actually there I was a little scared (until he'd leave and then I'd want to see him again.) Teah was definitely unsure of the bearded man.

 Our friends Jay and Jard and their kids got to go with us.

" Not so sure about this Mom. Please don't let go."

 Check out the view.

 And there was a really cute conductor man that came around and punched everyone's tickets---just like in the Polar Express.

 Mason loves Teah.

 A few more mountain pics.

Jingle

 So you've probably heard about the Elf on the Shelf (You can find them just about anywhere these days.) Well, the other night, ours showed up at our front door. Mommy read the story about how he is Santa's helper and that each night he flies back to the North Pole and reports to Santa how we've been behaving. Then he comes back and hides in a new spot every morning for us to find him. I wasn't so sure about this guy at first (we call him Jingle). I was afraid he was going to be flying around my room in the middle of the night. But Daddy told me to tell Jingle not to fly around my room and I'm pretty sure he listened. At least so far. The first morning Teah found him sitting on our fuzzy jar.

And this morning...he was taking a marshmallow bath in the sink. What a sense of humor that Jingle has. Looking forward to seeing where he'll land next. Stay tuned.

Thanksgiving with Grandma and Grandpa

 Last week Grandma and Grandpa came to visit for Thanksgiving.

 I got help out in the kitchen.

 "Can I paint the turkey Mama?"

 I also helped Grandma peel the eggs

 and make them into deviled eggs.

 Poor Teah got sick with Croup. (Worst sickness yet.)

 Luckily I was there to help. 

 Oh, and Grandma. She ended up doing most of the cooking cuz Mama was tending to Teah. (Don't worry, whoever was taking the picture was also watching Charlie or we may have had Thanksgiving dinner without a turkey!)

 Grandpa, there's no time for sleeping!

 Check out the bird.

 Poor little punky.

 Grandpa fed us well every morning.

 And Grandma played lots of puzzles and games.

 Here we all are playing my favorite: Candy Land!

 Ta da!

 Teah did manage to get out and go to the park one day.

 Who can ever resist the swings?

 Not us.

 To wrap up the week, we built our very own Gingerbread houses.

 I helped Grandma decorate our own house.

Bet you can't guess which one was mine?

Holy Hair

Swimming in November?

 We filled up our fuzzy jar (Teah and I earn warm fuzzies when we share and are nice to each other....trust me, it's harder than it seems.) So as a reward we chose to go swimming (inside of course)!

 Please excuse the fuzzy pics and red eyes....new camera coming soon!!!