It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!

Over the Thanksgiving holiday break I took the boys to Bass Pro. They have a Santa wonderland! Have y'all seen this place? We've been going for years, but this year they added a fun and very special friend... a talking robot reindeer named Olive! He's great! :-)

I highly recommend this place! Although Santa wasn't there until 3:00 the day we went... I assumed the guy would be there all day. We got there at noon. After the boys played with all the toys they have out we went to visit the mall Santa. Problem solved! ;-)

 Slade checking out Olive the reindeer because it said we could take pics.

 Sitting in Santa's chair while he was M.I.A.

 Playing the hunting game... now Slade wants a pink gun.

 We found Santa! He was at the mall... Gavin had a talk with him while I got Slade situated. Gavin said it was one of the most exciting moments of his entire life. :-)

 We also did some decorating over the Thanksgiving holiday.

 As well as the Gingerbread house tradition

 Gavin's tree

Slade's tree

Olive the robot reindeer

If You've Seen One Grandma...

...Then You've Seen Them All???

According to Slade that's how it goes anyway. :-)

The only grandma he calls grandma is my grandma... Make sense? That would be his great grandma. He calls Art's Mom "guelita". Ok, here's the grandma story. Slade saw an older lady at the grocery store. I was busy trying to find an item on the shelf and wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying and neither was the lady, at first. When the lady started walking towards him he said, "Oh hey, it's grandma!" The lady didn't hear him at first and said, "What?" Then I saw her smile as she said, "Oh" I think that means she figured out what was going on. Then Slade said, "Mom, I saw grandma!" 

The lady did look a lot like our dear, sweet grandma... :-)

Decision 2012

Election Day is a very exciting time. Not just for the registered voters that help choose the President of the United States, but also for students learning about the importance of voting. Gavin's class voted on a few things: longer recess time, no homework on Wednesdays and Movie Day. They also cast their vote for either Ed the elephant; which was their way of voting for Romney or Dumbo the donkey; which was Obama.

And the results...

Ed the elephant won

and

Movie Day !!

They also voted on the movie:

Charlotte's Web or Finding Nemo...

Finding Nemo had the most votes!

The kids had a lot of fun and most importantly have a good understanding how a democracy works. :-)

StL Family Movie Night

We went to Family Movie Night at Gavin's school last night and had fun. They showed the movie on the lawn between the parking lot and playground. The school has this huge movie theater size screen that the movie was projected on; so the 100s of people were able to see just fine. The school's various clubs sold candy, sno cones, popcorn, pizza and drinks. Everyone brought blankets and chairs to sit on and some kids ran around and played on the playground equipment. The kids had so much fun. The event was a huge success!