More Christmas Fun

The Christmas fun continues... tonight we visited Santa at the mall. Next year, we will be going in early December. The whole thing took 1 1/2 hours with Santa taking a dinner break and then the elves had technical difficulties as soon as we were at the front of the line. Hadley did sit on his lap without crying! I don't have the picture yet because I need to scan it in. The woman behind us was urging us to just take one with my phone because of the delay but after waiting that long I was determine to pay way too much for the official Santa shot.

Last night Madeleine had a little Christmas show at her dance school. It was very cute and she did great even with a mishap. Her tap shoe went flying off her foot after one kick. She looked a little shocked at first but then smiled, got the shoe, put it back on and started dancing again. Her class got to do their dance twice and the second time she announced that she lost her shoe last time when they got to the part where her shoe went flying. Everyone laughed when her shoe went flying so on the way home she asked me if it was funny when her shoe fell off.

Tomorrow is my last day at work until Jan 4th... I can't wait for the break! Hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Some more December Pics:

At the Glendale Christmas Tree Lighting
Santa at the Glendale Tree Lighting... Hadley did not want to see him this time
Opening St. Nicholas presents
Decorating a gingerbread tree D got us... after we finished I found Madeleine licking the icing off the beater in the mixer
Hadley really just wanted to play with the candies
Hadley loves to stand at the door of Madeleine's dance class and watch
Madeleine at the start of the show, not intimidated at by all the people
Doing her dance
Recovering the shoe