This past weekend we drove down to Mankato, Auntie Katie graduated! Abby was bored to tears! She did really well, we brought her leapster and took several trips to the bathroom to give her a break.
Abby loves her Aunties! She told me she didn't need Santa, since her aunties would buy her toys from all over the world, just not from china!
Today we found a pickle ornament. We have been trying to hunt one down with no luck until today. It's a tradition I thought might be fun for us to start. We will leave the pickle ornament out with the cookies for Santa. Santa will put the pickle ornament on the tree in a tricky spot. The first one to find the pickle gets a special gift. The idea is to get children to take a minute an enjoy the beuty of the christmas tree, instead of jumping right in to the presents on christmas morning. Charlie agreed that this would be a great little tradition to start, but he was loosing faith that we would find a pickle for an ornament.
Speaking of Christmas traditions in addition to the ones Charlie and I have continued from our childhood, we have started another this year. The Holday Train. Last Wednesday the Canadian pacific R.R. had their holiday train stop in NE Minneapolis. The train stops with in viewing distance from our house but we have never made it over to the train yard to actually enjoy the festivities. We happen to catch the news Tuesday and found out that it would be arriving, and when we found out it was a bennifit for the food shelf we were thrilled to add this to our Christmas traditions. Below is a link and a picture of the train!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FAueGtMd_4
This evening the plan is to enjoy making cookies and chocolate covered preztles as a family. Abby is so excited and enjoys partaking in every little Holiday activity.
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