Countdown To Christmas

Esme and Chan are enjoying putting ornaments on our advent calendar and counting down to Christmas.  The tree is filling up with presents underneath but we're not even sure if they know that Christmas is when we open them.  And honestly, in the past we've taken almost a week to open all our presents and play with them all anyways.  Someone asked Esme what she wanted from Santa the other day and she looked at me questioningly and said "a present?"  Chan has surprisingly not attacked the tree like we thought he would either.  He's left the tree, the lights, the presents and the ornaments alone which has been nice.

Chan's new favorite song is Baby Beluga which used to be Esme's favorite song too.  They love to sing it before bed since we have a book to go along with it.  Chan's also enjoying the Llama Llama books right now.  He likes all the rhyming.  Thankfully he's finally enjoying story time more than in the past.  He used to have a hard time sitting still in our laps and would instead just run around the room while we read to him.  He also likes Little Red Hen, Bi Bim Bop, Noodles For Baby, Is Your Mama A Llama, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and many more.

Esme had her first school performance last week for the holidays.  We weren't sure if she'd be shy on stage or what but she ended up doing just fine.  She sang her heart out for 4 Christmas songs.  The best part was that most of her cousins were sitting on the floor in front of the stage so she could see them the whole time.  She didn't seem to care about the audience in front of her cause she could just look at her cousins instead.

The shirt says it all - "check: I really tried"

Fancy braid crown thanks to Aunty B's

Esme at home before her school performance

Esme wore her ballet clothes to the Nutcracker

She also loves wearing her gymnastics clothes around the house.

Chan experiencing loud Christmas music at the county building

Esme loves going to the market with mom cause she gets to pick out a muffin :)

Chan still loves wearing Esme's sunglasses and slippers.

Esme was so proud of her pony tail coming out of her hat this day.

Chan loves eating rib bones.

This time he's actually wearing his own sunglasses.

Capri and Mimi sitting in Santa's chair at the yacht club.

Talking to the Christmas ballerina.

She actually sat on his lap this year!!!

Chan was sleeping so we couldn't get a pic with both kids.

And then he woke up!  Notice he's not sitting.  

Esme likes the kabuki look with her sunscreen.  

Chan having fun with cousin Mahina.