a season in review

For some reason, when I uploaded these photos, they appeared all out of order and instead of annoyingly reorganizing them, I'm just going to leave them as is: a hodge podge of our life from the last three weeks or so. 

Initially it was sad to miss the December activities that became part of our Christmas tradition in Connecticut. I found it harder to get in the Christmas spirit without the light parade, chilly tree lighting, North Pole Express, etc. But, we found some new Christmas activities to enjoy and as Finnian said yesterday, "San Diego is my favorite place I've ever lived." 

So yes, I think a good Christmas season was had by all. Here were the ingredients to ours:

Plenty of sugar

Special aprons for baking

Mini gingerbread houses so every boy could have their own

A wonderful Christmas program, highly anticipated by that cutie in the red pants

More sugar

A Christmas Eve visit to the model railroad museum with special LEGO display

Walks on the beach

Family photos

A great visit with Grandpa

Losing that other front tooth on Christmas Eve, which meant the tooth fairy AND santa visited the same night (and every person asked F if all he wanted for Christmas was his two front teeth)

Dressing up

Playing outside (in flip flops and sweaters... so San Diego!)

Rock climbing

Riding new scooters in shorts on Christmas day

Waiting to run downstairs and see if Santa came (dressed in mama jammies)

Mastering two feet on the scooter

Visiting the beach, where slowly but surely all the clothes were wet 

and underwear was the only thing left to wear

Music with Uncle Brian and Grandpa

The Nutcracker

The first sunrise of 2013

Fun times with Auntie Lindsey and Uncle Brian

And a visit to the Marine Corps aviation museum

Merry Christmas to all and a very very Happy New Year!