Lilli being silly. We received a package in the mail, and inside the items were wrapped with bubble wrap. Lilli ran off with the bubble wrap. A little while later I found her like this, watching a video.
The kids each had their own advent calendars this year. Tipton had a Castle Lego one and Lilli had a Fairies Playmobil one. Grandma Suzie had a great time playing with the 'treasures' from Lilli's calendar.
On the 23rd Grandma Suzie and the kids and I went downtown to look at the Christmas lights and browse the Christmas market. Tipton and I got some "glittens" (fingerless gloves with a mitten flap.) We walked all the way down the pedestrian mall. Towards the Triangeln end there was a Chritsmas tree made out of candles. It was really cool, but it was hard to get a good picture.
On the way back to the car we stopped and got fresh, hot mini donuts. While we were waiting in line I took a picture of the trees along the canal. I love it when trees are wrapped in lights like this.
In one of the big squares there were lots of really cool lights. Working from left to right in the picture below: there was a tree with giant packages, a giant tree wrapped in tiny white lights, a tree with giant green and blue balls, and covering the ground underneath/around them all were thousands of candles. Again, hard to get a good picture, but you get the idea.
Swedes celebrate Christmas on the 24th. They have several traditions, one of them being that the entire COUNTRY stops whatever they are doing at 3:00pm and sits in front of the tv to watch "Kale Anka" (Donald Duck.) They show the same cartoons every year, with the exception of the last one. Last year the last cartoon was a clip from Cars. This year it was a clip from Bolt. We invited the Trively's over to watch Donald Duck with us.
Christmas Morning. I wanted to get a picture of all the stockings on the couch before the kids got to them, but I wasn't quick enough.
Santa brought Dave a Homer Simpson mouse and mousepad for his new laptop.
Santa brought Grandma Suzie lots of chocolate and some spatulas.
The kids were so anxious to tear into all the presents. This is so telling of them. Lilli looking up to Tipton and Tipton has already picked out the first present he's going to open.
We gave Grandma Suzie a digital picture frame. And we'd already loaded some pictures on it. I think she liked it.
Grandma Suzie gave us each our own package of Oreos!
Tipton's loot.
Lilli's loot.
The kids got lots of new things for their dress up corner. Including some mask/hat combos. Here Lilli models the Flower mask and hat.
Here she models the ladybug mask and hat.
And here she models the dragon/dinosaur mask and hat.
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