santa take two and other stuff

So when Eli woke up from his nap we told him we were going to town so he could sit on Santa's lap he yelled- YEAH! and may have fist pumped the air and done a little dance too.  But you never would have known it when he got on Santa's lap.  He sat very still and quiet and finally with a lot of prompting he managed to get out the word "Thomas" when asked what he wanted for Christmas.  

 Isaac only spent about .2 seconds with Santa- he wasn't feeling the Santa vibe today.  Thank you to Discovery Depot Toys for having such a jolly Santa!

 And this is who we went to see Santa with.

And this is what we did after we saw Santa.  Don't judge, the McDonalds has a really nice play place, especially when its 40 degrees outside and gets dark at 4pm.  We played for a good hour.  And yes, the picture below is Eli screaming in delight with the realization that he gets to play on THAT!

 He absolutely loves these things but since he's only two, mommy or daddy goes with him.  Daddy went 3 times and mommy once.

 Isaac got in on a little action too.

Fun "small group time".  Great idea Amberly.

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this is totally unrelated to tonight but i just had to say I FINALLY finished our stockings.  when I realized that Christmas is, uh, like next week I decided i should actually get to work.  so here they are.  they're made out of wool sweaters from Goodwill. the idea came from Pinterest of course- where else ;)

I also finished making the last Christmas present tonight. H-a-l-l-e-l-u-j-a-h. that's all I have to say about that.