Downtown Minneapolis for the Macy's Christmas display, to visit Santa, have dinner, and watch the Holidazzle Parade
This outing is always with Mike's mom and grandma (and sometimes some of Mike's other family). And this year we also added to our outing a puppet show that Macy's put on and a visit at Daddy's work. The kids loved pretending to work and playing with all the Target swag.
As you'll see, Liam was not a fan of Santa, even after seeing him twice before this visit. In preparation of our visit with him (and knowing he'd likely be scared), we told Liam about how he should say "cheese!" when he sat with Santa. Instead, he just screamed! But ... after the 30 seconds of trauma and he was back in our arms, he blew him kisses! And later in the evening he kept saying, "Cheese, Santa! Cheese!" Ha!
Ava, on the other hand, was smitten with Santa this year and even had quite a lengthy conversation with him. She said they talked about what she wanted for Christmas, which held strong the entire Christmas season as being "a princess phone, a camera and a Pocahontas Barbie doll."
Christmas crafts: Gingerbread house, hand print ornaments
Ava has a hard time actually building her gingerbread house because she just wants to eat the candy decorations. She did sneak in a few, but used the rest to build a fun house!
Ava has a hard time actually building her gingerbread house because she just wants to eat the candy decorations. She did sneak in a few, but used the rest to build a fun house!
This year we also made hand print ornaments from the kids for our parents and Ian and Bre. So cute!
Baking cookies for Santa
If not for Ava, I may have forgotten about baking cookies for Santa this year. We had so many cookies around the house that I thought to use those to leave out for Santa. Luckily Ava remembered making them last year and asked to do it again this year. Liam had fun helping too. Well, at least until the end when he got a little upset (and that is supposed to the best part ... the taste-testing!).
If not for Ava, I may have forgotten about baking cookies for Santa this year. We had so many cookies around the house that I thought to use those to leave out for Santa. Luckily Ava remembered making them last year and asked to do it again this year. Liam had fun helping too. Well, at least until the end when he got a little upset (and that is supposed to the best part ... the taste-testing!).
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