When we arrived back home, we headed down to our neighbors house to visit with our friends from Canada who were in town for the week. It was great to see them and their kids. Later that week we celebrated A's birthday party. His birthday was a couple weeks before, but with the trip and some other weekend commitments, we weren't able to dedicate anytime to it. He had about 12 friends over for a chaotic 2 hr Cars-themed party. Actually, they did really well. It was a nice change to have children who have attention spans and can concentrate on a project for 15-20 minutes (unlike Cian's friends who did their art-projects for about 2-3 minutes!). The day before the party, C and F decided to get into the clippers (again!!) and give themselves some nice haircuts. I had to shave them down to near nothing to make it look semi-decent, but F got his so short there was no making his look good!! Thank goodness we have boys and not girls!
We have also visited Santa at a few different locations (3) and the kids continue to be deathly afraid of that man. We were able to get C to actually sit on his lap for about 5 seconds at one place. Both A and C have told him on 2 occasions what they want (arts and crafts set for A and storm troopers for C), so they are pretty confident Santa will bring them the right thing! Poor F just doesn't get the idea of Christmas just yet, but that is okay for us because the longer we can pacify him with one or two cheapo presents, the better!!
Now old-man winter is really letting us have it here as we are expecting quite the ice storm tonight. I am fully expecting school to be cancelled tomorrow and us to loose some vital power source over the night. Let's hope for the best!!
Here are some pictures of the last few weeks...
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