Winter Fest with Santa

On Saturday, I was very excited to take Connor to Winter Fest at a local park district.  We went last year and it had a lot of fun activities for kids.  I also love that you can visit Santa, but you don't have to wait in a huge line.  We arrived right when it opened so we could visit Santa right away! 

When we walked in the room, I could tell Connor started to get nervous.  He tried to hide behind me while I showed him that the other kids loved Santa and got to sit on his lap.  When it was our turn, he started to cry.  He wouldn't go near Santa unless I did too, so we got a photo together.  Hilarious!

Here's last year and he's just as upset!


To calm down, we went to the next room where we decorated snowman cookies!  Connor put icing and m&ms on his cookie.

Then we ate our cookie!

We went into the gym and did some of the little holiday activities.

Connor's favorite part was the bounce house!  Once I got him in there, he loved it!

Slide!

And again...

And again...

Remainders of Hanukkah

We got a little behind with Hanukkah gifts because of weather, coming home late, and a crabby kid, so we just opened the rest over the weekend.  When Connor opened up his new window clings, he was SO excited!  "Wow!"

He also got a book about going potty!

I was a little worried that he would be upset when there were no more presents to open, but he hasn't noticed!  He's been enjoying playing with his new toys every night after dinner.

Our Week

As he does every week, Connor spent Sunday afternoon at Grammy & Grandpa's house.  I stopped by to pick him up and he showed me his new stickers he got from Trader Joe's.  He made everyone put a sticker on their nose just like him!

When we got home, we opened a Hanukkah gift.

He got a little yellow digger truck!  Daddy taught him how to put raisins in the shovel part so the truck could carry them around.

On another night, he opened up his snowman hat!

It was too small (darn Dollar Tree), but he was so cute smiling in it!  We'll save it for his baby brother or sister.

Because it didn't fit, Daddy let him open up another gift...


He got a newsboy hat for summer!

On another night, he got some new snow gloves (for building a snowman) and some gardening gloves for helping outside.

During his bath, he asked me to pour water on his head and he thought it was funny.  So this is him thinking he's pouring water on his head...but it's really being poured on his face!