[/caption]Ellie is doing so much better, we are going home! Here is what Ellie says about that, "Yip yip yarrrah!"
Just for fun, here is a blog I started, but never posted after last Christmas.
As many of you know, Ellie was always a little freaked out by the concept of the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. Anyone, magical or not, sneaking around the house while you are sleeping just was not her cup of tea. As in many cases, Ben is the opposite of that. Ben has talked almost daily about Santa (0nly interrupting himself to talk about dinosaurs) since he saw Santa on the Christmas Train at the beginning of December. He would occasionally name drop that he had in fact seen Santa Claus in person on the train. He was super excited. You know the kind where your body can't even contain it so you have to jump up and down.
Christmas morning, Ben raced downstairs to find his presents. He checked to make sure Santa had eaten the cookies he'd left out and drank the special juice Ben had made. There were only crumbs left on the plate and Santa had left a note thanking Ben for being such a great helper.
This year, Ben has been keeping an ever changing, ever growing list of requests for Santa. At the same time, he seems a little star struck by the big man in red, unable to talk with him if he sees him. Ben helped me decorate the entire tree this year and we discussed which ornaments I had collected for him and which ones I'd collected for Ellie. It was like a walk down memory lane. I adore our tree even more this year because of how much fun it was decorating it with my super excited Ben.
A big shout our to brilliant Brittany for her visits and Smiley book and chocolate cupcakes. Yum.
A big shout out to our wonderful neighbor, Kathy, for walking Ben to the busstop this morning. Made my morning way way easier!
A big shout out to Karly for picking Ben up from school, having a playdate,AND purchasing bigger Lotta clothes in addition to the snow boots ANS snow pants. Thank you all for making this week so much easier!!
hooray!! And I love that so excited that they just gotta jump and yelp!!
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