Is it Christmas yet?

Today was a very full day! First thing this morning I took Owen to a doctor's appointment to check how his broken leg from 18 months ago healed. He just couldn't believe how cool it was that the doctor could "look through his leg to the bones" with the x-ray machine. Then we went over to our friends, the Richardsons' house to build gingerbread houses. Well, sort of build them anyway. Jami and I struggled to kind of put the walls together while the kids decorated the roof pieces that never quite made it on the houses. They thought they were pretty sneaky eating the candy and licking the icing spoons... but their sticky, white faces kind of gave them away! Our construction skills might be lacking, but we had a lot of fun!!!

Kole and Owen decorating gingerbread together.

Linkin, Kole, and Owen with more gingerbread pieces. Brooklin was there too, but she escaped when I broke out the camera. And Sutton was hanging out too! Such a trooper in his carseat most of the day.

After making a huge mess, we all went out to lunch. I'm embarrassed to admit where I fed Owen (suffice it to say that a $.99 menu was involved). Then we were off to our most exciting adventure of the day... a visit to Santa Clause. Owen has been asking everyday whether it's Christmas yet and once he saw Santa was in his house at the mall he declared "It is Christmas time!" He was really excited to see Santa but could only say that he wanted toys and candy. Santa asked him which toys, and all he kept saying was new toys. So, I guess that should be easy enough.

So, after all this, we were way past nap time. Owen then fell asleep on the way home and unfortunately woke up when I tried to carry him to his bed. So it was... no nap and no break for Mommy. As if his day wasn't already the best he could have every imagined, we then did some finger painting and went on what Owen called a walk to "far, far, far, far,..., far away" (with enough "far"s to last about 5 minutes). It was a beautiful day out today. After this fun, but very long day, Colin finally came home and we enjoyed a nice dinner together as a family. At bedtime Owen definitely hit the pillow hard! And now it's my bedtime too!