Its Begining to look a lot like Christmas!

Allison loves the window clings.... baby, the baba and twinkle twinkle are her favorite parts

Dinner with Gramma before Charlie Brown at the Stages Theater

The Stages Theater does such a great job!

Meeting Snoopy and Charlie Brown

Berks is getting into the spirit too!

Nathan and Benjamin's Baby tree from the winter mommy was on bed rest with them!

Allison's 1st time putting the star on top of the Christmas Tree!  It was fun to watch her because she loves stars and sings twinkle twinkle to all of them!

Done deal.  

Can't get enough of this outfit!

Christmas with the Narrs!

Macy's 8th Floor: A Day in the Life of an Elf

We always like to bring Grumpy downtown with us because he always enjoys it... and no trip would be complete without a stop at Candyland!

Traditional Candy Canes from Grumpy!

We had a very interesting St. Nicholas Day this year!

Nathan and Benjamin for weeks have had a hard time 1st time listening, sharing, using indoor voices and cleaning up their toys. So, St. Nicholas had to take a stand!  There was nothing in their shoes the next morning.   I was a little heartbreaking in the morning when they were so excited for Nicholas the Elf to arrive with special gifts for them from St. Nicholas. When they saw they had nothing I was not sure how they would respond... N: "I didn't need anything anyway!" B: contrite in attitude "Allie boo look at this cool book you got!"  

We read the letter and all day they were very aware of the fact that they needed to change their behavior.  In the evening after dinner Nathan had the idea to write St. Nicholas an apology letter to put in his shoes... Ben joined in too!  I think that this was a good lesson to both of them. 

Thankfully St. Nicholas had a chance to come down St. Croix Road the next morning... and everyone was very grateful for their new treasures. Nicholas the elf joined us for the holiday season too!

I just think this photo is cute!

Allie and Mommy at the MOPS Christmas Party