Friday, November 25, 2011

A Christmas-y Day

Christmas is coming to the Thomas household. Well, the decoration part anyways:) Today, to the great delight of the boys, we got out our Christmas trees (1 big, 1 small) and lights and ornaments and decorated.

Not a one of us were dressed yet. That's part of the fun of special days at home after all:) The boys worked very hard putting ornaments on while asking questions about where each one came from and remembering certain ones they'd made in school.

 Can you tell this boy was excited??


And not long after we finished, Missy woke up and came down to a winter wonderland! I love the look on her face! She immediately started telling us about the lights...

But she wasn't too sure at first about touching that weird spiky green stuff...

But finally got enough courage to reach out a chubby, little, curious hand. Hopefully she'll leave the ornaments on the tree!


And then late this afternoon, long after we enjoyed a delicious lunch of leftovers, we headed for a special lights parade in Naperville. We got stuck behind a crowd of people so Z got a special seat:) He wasn't too sure at first...

But some nice people made a nice little spot for the boys to squeeze through finally and even were kind enough to help get a few candy treats that were being handed out for the boys.
 The parade ended with Santa and Mrs Claus and not long after there was a countdown....
And Santa flipped on all the pretty lights downtown! Zakkai was completely amazed that he could turn on all the lights at once:) And I'm sure if he could've gotten anywhere near that switch, the lights would've been going on and off, on and off!

It was a nice relaxing day full of sweet family time, Christmas music on the piano, and fun memories. I'm thankful for days like these!

2 comments:

grandma said...

what fun to see our town of Naperville. So many memories Not that we ever saw them lighting the lights but just you being in our college town. It is so wonderful. What a wonderful fun day decorating your tree. It was very special.

Charity said...

What great memories you are making for them. Well, gauging from your next post, they may also remember the day that they went to the ER twice in one night. I sure do hope you start feeling better!

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