Friday, December 30, 2011

The many faces of 3 year old Bell

Show me...
scared

sad

mad

excited!

surprised

up to no good

happy!

The many faces of 3 year old Bean!

mad!
 Show me....
silly


up to no good

scared

mad again

surprised!

happy!

Christmas morning!

Bell

Bean

Bell


Fairies!

Bean in the foreground and Bell in the background

Christmas round 2!










Downtown again!

Mommy and Bean
 Back downtown... this time on the El! When we got to our stop and told the girls we had made it... they both went ... awww darn. :( I guess the ride was more exciting than the destination.

Bill and Bell

Bean (pink)  and Bell (purple)


It's almost impossible to get a picture of them both looking at the camera at the same time.
The amazing wonder of the disney store!

Pretty dresses!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas round 1

 My parents were in town last weekend for an early Christmas celebration! It was great to see them and Chris and Jennifer.
 "Mommy, did Santa come early?"
"nope... even better... 
Grampy and Grandma"
wow! look at all those presents!

Bean is showing ducky all the pretty packages.







downtown nativity

forgot to mention we stopped by the Christkindl market downtown before heading home...

The Macy's Santa (take 1)

Last Saturday, the four of us went downtown with a plan to see Santa and eat at the Walnut Room while gazing at the beautiful Christmas Tree. Apparently, we weren't the only ones with this brilliant idea. The wait for the Walnut Room was 4 hrs. This would have put us into naptime and that wasn't a viable option if we wanted to enjoy the lunch. 
So we decided to check out the line to visit Santa and then grab lunch somewhere much less crowded. :)

They told us the line for Santa would take about an hour. Bill offered to wait in the line while the girls and I ran off energy around Macy's. 
What actually happened - I lost my mind trying to keep track of them with all the people and hold all of our junk. We went back to wait with Bill for what we thought was the second half hour. Turned out to be an hour and a half more! If I had known, I would have never waited in the line... but I'm glad we did. 

The girls enjoyed seeing Santa. They walked right up to him and said, "We've been good." 




Watching Santa and reindeer in the telescope.



The girls were really good and were rewarded with frango pie at Infield's. :)
Bell and me.
Bill and Bean

They were exhausted and so were we!