December - Raking Leaves, Festival of Trees and Christmas Trees

December flew by! We started the month out with Jacob and I going with friends, Marcia and Andrea and their kids, Kate and Connor,to Festival of Trees. I had a good time chasing Jacob and trying to help him realize that no, he could not go under the ropes and touch the toys.

So after looking at trees we took Jacob and Connor over to the kid's section and they got to "fish."
Mom wished she had looked at what the fishing "treats" were before encouraging the activity--they were "Dumb Dumb" suckers. At this point in my life I do not think suckers and 2 years olds should be in the same room. But alas, he had fished it out and I was not going to spoil his fun.

We had a very warm and long fall season this year and so the leaves had not fallen off the trees before the first snow fall. Once that snow had melted some leaves fell and we got them raked up. But the tree in the back yard still had about 1/2 it's leaves still on. Finally at the beginning of the month, most of them had fallen. So the 2nd week of December we were out raking the second batch before the next snow storm. Just seemed weird to be raking leaves in December!

December also brought the celebration of my Dad's 79th birthday,
visiting Santa Claus (which went pretty well if Santa had a little treat to distract Jacob from the fact that he was sitting on his lap). If you look at his face he is cautiously allowing Santa to talk to him.

We celebrated Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Safsten's house. Jacob was Joseph during the Christmas story. He got a car map that he can drive his cars on from Grandpa Safsten. It has Gr. Safsten and Gr. Wong's houses on it as well as other sites for his cars to drive to.

Christmas morning with Jacob was fun! He came down and saw his gift from Santa--a tool bench and he was very excited to play with it! He also got a train set and a Magna Doodle.


Christmas day we spent at Jason's dad's house with the cousins.We opened presents and had a nerf gun battle.


New Year's Eve is upon us--amazing that 2010 is over. Happy New Year!!