Countdown To Christmas

We're counting down to Christmas!  We got Esme a wooden advent calendar and Esme was very particular about where we put it in the house.  She got VERY upset at me when I tried to move it.  Every morning she likes to come down the stairs and stop in the hall to put a magnetic ornament on the advent tree.   

The lonely advent calendar

 

We also got some snow the other night!  Esme woke up in the morning and said "mom , it looks like a snow globe."  I drove really slow to school that morning since the roads were still snowy and icy and Esme asked me why I was driving so slow.  I told her that I didn't want the car to slip and hit another car and get in an accident.  She said "yeah, cause then we'd have to say sorry."  Ha ha!  

This was our backyard in the snow

Aunty Amy, Malia and Charlie just missed the snow!  They flew in to spend the holidays with us but the snow was gone by the time they arrived that same evening.  The cousins have been having a lot of fun playing together and we've even managed a few outings to the children's museum near our house, the Bellevue Botanical Gardens light show, and the Ballard Farmer's Market.  We met up with our cousin Shyla and Tabby too for some family fun at the market.  Esme and Tabby are really into dancing and they had a blast getting their groove on after lunch that day.  They made their own dance floor right in the middle of the café!

The Lyman Ohana minus Uncle David

Our trip to the market