Santa @ Going Bonkers

This year, Jeremiah's work hosted a Christmas party for the kids at a place here in town called "Going Bonkers". The kids got to play and get their picture taken with Santa (AKA, Jeremiah). Elijah asked for a "Green Present". This is the first year he's taken to the idea of Santa and he really enjoyed it... quite different from screaming on Santa's lap last year. However, he must have felt some level of comfort with this particular Santa. ;)
Bonkers is like tunnels and trails of woven seat belts up in the rafters where kids can run and parents just want out of. It smells, it's hot, and the spaces get a little small from time to time. But it was a ton of fun.


Now, that's just cute.
Going down the slide... the slides were even fun for mommy! Super big and FAST!

Meeting Santa
I wonder how many years it will take him to figure this out...

Eli's First "Big 'Ol" Missouri Snow

Well, I have found myself far behind in the blogging world again but better late than never, I suppose. We have had a fairly decent taste of snow this season and Elijah LOVES it. Anything "big" to Elijah is "big 'ol, big 'ol, big 'ol" and this was his first "big 'ol snow" (that he was actually big enough to play in).
He learned to throw snowballs at mommy
He had so much fun being pulled on the sled. We even found a very small hill in the woods behind our house to go down, but once was enough... there were too many sticks and a small bit of frozen water at the bottom. Mommy could only chance it once- not to mention the climb back up was a bit tough for both of us.
And Finally, his first snowman. As you can see, there wasn't enough snow to make him any bigger than Elijah, but Eli didn't care. He chose the hat for his snowman buddy to wear and helped put the (baby) carrot in his nose... we used our scented pine cones for his eyes and gave up on the idea of a mouth :)