Photos by Alexis

Alexis got her very own digital camera for Christmas! It's going to take her some practice... Finally, she figured out how to get our faces in her shot... I guess Sammi was tired! Posing for pictures is hard work.

The camera is meant to survive being dropped & meant to be super easy for preschoolers to use without help. This has been a bit of a problem- it is too easy to delete pictures! Cousin Zoey took a bunch of good pictures for us at our Christmas Eve party at Grandma Gayle's & Papa Scott's but sadly they have all been deleted accidentally.

Running wild

Here's a fun game...running around screaming with nothing but our towels on.

Santa Pictures

We headed downtown Seattle to see Santa this weekend- it is a family tradition from when Mommy was little to go downtown to see Santa. It is always a long wait to see Santa, since he is such a popular guy, especially so close to Christmas. This year was a record wait- 4 hours!! What were we thinking?!? Here we are about 3 1/2 hours in... Jen L, if you are reading this...we joined the club and had to have a family portrait this year (hopefully it will be just kids in the Easter Bunny photo!)

After waiting in line, taking our picture & filling up with some lunch, we hit the carousel for a fun end to a long day.

Samantha

Mommies & Daddies tend to spend a lot of time deciding what to name their children & how to spell their names. We didn't spend any time discussing how to spell Samantha's nickname, though. Mommy has been spelling it Sami & Daddy has been spelling it Sammy. So we compromised & decided the official spelling will be Sammi. It probably doesn't really matter, but if that is what we call her, might as well be consistent with how we spell it.

Now open: Salon de Mommy

We tried something new today- Mommy cutting hair. Alexis has been in need of a haircut for a while now but when we tried to go earlier in the week she totally freaked out. She was afraid it would hurt. Today, she said that she would sit still so Mommy could cut her hair.

Before:
After:

The finished product is shorter than planned but looks much better (as long as you don't look too close!)

Christmas cookies

On Monday, we went to the Supermall for their Christmas activity (remember when we decorated pumpkins in October?). We got to decorate cookies & then Santa came to read a story.

It was pretty tricky & messy using the frosting! Santa was pretty quiet and we couldn't really hear the story, so the kids played instead.

We didn't take any pictures, but yesterday Alexis went to her first play- "Peter Pan." She really had a great time. She sat so still and payed attention to everything. She got a little scared of Captain Hook and the pirates- we had to go to the "quiet room" for a little bit. Thanks for taking us Lori!