We went to the Portland Zoo Lights with some friends. It was so beautiful! They did a great job covering the zoo in Christmas lights. We also had hot chocolate and elephant ears and took a ride on the little train, which was a huge highlight for Carter. He didn't stop talking about it for days.
Maddie and I did our fair share of baking while Carter napped. During his nap these days, usually about 2 hours, she has a quiet time in her room for the first hour and then we spend time together in the second hour. Depending on how much energy I have, we either bake, work on letters/alphabet stuff, do arts and crafts, or watch a show (she watches while I lay down).
We spent a weekend in the small town of Silverton with friends in the beginning of December. It's about 45 minutes away. We had a lot of fun playing on their parents' blueberry farm, feeding the horse, riding the gator, and going to the Oregon Gardens for their annual Christmas market. It reminded me of some of the Christmas markets in Germany/Switzerland.
And here with a 20 week belly photo...halfway there!
Before we left for the east coast, we got quite a bit of snow by Portland standards. I think there were almost 3 solid weeks of snow fall on and off. The roads get pretty bad here considering they don't salt and there's almost no snow plows. Basically the roads had 2-3 inches of snow/ice packed on them for those 3 weeks until the temperature rose. The kids loved it and went out jumping on the trampoline in the snow. Carter enjoyed eating the snow and I got exercise shoveling a lot of snow.
A couple weeks before December 25th, we celebrated Christmas just the four of us on a Saturday morning. It was really special to me and made me look forward to more Christmas traditions as the kids get older.
I also had to include photos with Santa... we didn't have to wait in a huge line, but I had a memorable mommy moment that day. We were at the front of the line after waiting maybe 25 minutes, just 2 people ahead of us, and Carter says, "I have to go!!!" Well, it was during the day on a Wednesday so it was just the kids and me. I tell him to hold it until after. A mere two minutes later, steam is coming off his pants and I look down to see that he has just peed his pants. He had no problem, so I just acted like I didn't realize and we went ahead, saw Santa, and went home. I just hoped that his jeans were dark enough that it wasn't so obvious!
This Santa, by the way, was very impressive. It was just about a mile from our house at this nice outdoor mall. He sets up this little cabin in the center area of the mall and you wait in line outside to enter into his cozy little place. They let you take as many photos with your phone as you want and he gives the kids time to talk to him for a couple minutes. He also gives out colorful, big candy canes (better than the cheap mini ones that mommy bought at the store).
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