Santa, is it you?

We've seen a lot of Santa in the last couple weeks.

We were taking a bus downtown when Lucca excitedly exlaimed "Mom, Christmas!" I turned to see what he was looking at and I saw a man in a red puffy coat with a long white beard. By the time I processed what he was thinking, he yelled "Mom, Santa!" I quietly turned to him and whispered, "does that look like Santa?" Once again, he yelled "NO! Its IS Santa!" It was so cute.
Then the next day we saw a homeless man with a white beard walking down the street and again, "Mom, Santa". As well as the guy who took my film to process at Moon photo, who was a good sport about it by saying he was Santa's cousin. I wonder how many other times we'll see Santa before Christmas.
We're off this morning to Salt Lake. Merry Christmas everyone! Lucca's been into pony tails lately. He likes them directly on top of his head...this is right after he pulled one out.

Decorating the tree

Decorating the tree this year was SO FUN! Lucca is all things Christmas. It's so cute to see his innocence about the whole thing. Christmas trees are the most awesome thing in the world, lights are magical, decorations are fabulous and every time we see a Christmas tree in the window of a neighbor he says "Look mom, it's SO beautiful". He's so precious and he's the best thing about Christmas right now. I wish I could see things in his eyes. This is his first year understanding Santa, his first year decorating a tree, his first year seeing the magic in Christmas lights and right now Christmas is about the feeling it provokes in him and not the presents. He's completely content with everything just being pretty, the idea of Santa is present enough and every time I look at him I get the real feeling of Christmas. How wonderful it must be to wake up one day, and see the world as you know it all dressed up for Christmas. I'm so grateful I can step back and watch the magic happen in his eyes. Thank you Lucca.

On a lighter note, when we told Lucca we couldn't put the decorations on the tree until we put the lights on it, he swiftly grabbed the lights, and "put" them on the tree. Luckily we were able to get a photo before the moment was gone. Behold, the lights on our tree!

Christmas tree

We cut down our Christmas tree last weekend. That has become such a fun family tradition the last few years. This year Lucca was especially into it. He loved helping Papa with his saw and loved finding his own "Christmas trees" to carry around. It was a great day and Lucca is completed enamoured with our tree.

Lucca was SO excited to take this train ride, but as you can see perhaps the anticipation was better than the actual ride. In his defense, he didn't get a nap because his mama and papa made him stay awake on the drive there so he'd nap on the way home. Of course, we then got terribly lost and ended it ended up taking 1 1/2 hours to get there and 1/2 hour to get home. He must get so frustrated with our scatteredness at times.

Catch Up...Halloween

I am way behind in the goings on around here. For Halloween, we had some friends over for trick-or-treating and the best stew ever! It was so fun to see the kids get into going from house to house. My favorite moment was when Lucca knocked on the door of a glass door and as the man walked to answer it Lucca jumped up and down screaming "Hi Guy Hi Guy Hi Guy". Then at another house, I asked him what he said to the man, he replied "Open this" as he handed the man his treat to open. I told him that's not what I was talking about and to try again, he replied "Thank you, Open this". Can't blame a guy for trying!
How cute is that Gnome?