Henry with some of our holiday decor (above) and Henry reacting to seeing Rudolph and Frosty (below).
Lots of holiday related activities this week. On Wednesday we went to a holiday dinner with Brett’s parents at their country club. Making their debut were Rudolph and Frosty…to say Henry was excited to see them would be an enormous understatement. As soon as he saw them he let out the loudest scream ever. He then proceeded to scream a couple more times. My eyes were focused completely on Henry, but Brett said that everyone essentially stopped what they were doing and turned to look at him. Despite his gleeful exuberance, he refused to approach either Rudolph or Frosty. I have a feeling this might be the same reaction we get with Santa…we’ll have to wait and see.
Lots of holiday related activities this week. On Wednesday we went to a holiday dinner with Brett’s parents at their country club. Making their debut were Rudolph and Frosty…to say Henry was excited to see them would be an enormous understatement. As soon as he saw them he let out the loudest scream ever. He then proceeded to scream a couple more times. My eyes were focused completely on Henry, but Brett said that everyone essentially stopped what they were doing and turned to look at him. Despite his gleeful exuberance, he refused to approach either Rudolph or Frosty. I have a feeling this might be the same reaction we get with Santa…we’ll have to wait and see.We also put out some of our holiday decorations; something Henry had been really looking forward to. He keeps saying that he thinks Santa will be coming tonight and I have to tell him, no, not tonight. He usually just replies “maybe so.” I bought him an Advent calendar to try and give him some concept of how many days there are until Christmas, and told him once the windows are all open, then it will be Christmas. His solution is to just open all the windows at once so it will be Christmas tonight. He’s super excited to get a tree. Darn it. Brett and I have avoided getting a tree every year since neither one of us is too into the whole Christmas thing…but I suppose we really have to now.
Friday evening we went into Multnomah Village because they were having horse drawn sleigh rides. Luckily it was not as busy as Halloween was; I was afraid we might have a very disappointed kiddo if the line was too long, but we didn’t have to wait long at all. Henry has been watching a PBS cartoon called “Calliou” lately and in one episode the family goes on a horse drawn sled ride, so this was essentially the same thing without the snow. I think he was excited and had fun, but there were no blood-curdling screams when he saw the horses, so I can’t be certain. (Picture upcoming.)
In Gymboree this week the theme was jungle and the teacher asked where tigers live. Henry thought for a minute and then said “the zoo!” So cute! He was also the only kid that knew a bird’s mouth is called a beak (or at least was the only one to answer).
Friday evening we went into Multnomah Village because they were having horse drawn sleigh rides. Luckily it was not as busy as Halloween was; I was afraid we might have a very disappointed kiddo if the line was too long, but we didn’t have to wait long at all. Henry has been watching a PBS cartoon called “Calliou” lately and in one episode the family goes on a horse drawn sled ride, so this was essentially the same thing without the snow. I think he was excited and had fun, but there were no blood-curdling screams when he saw the horses, so I can’t be certain. (Picture upcoming.)
In Gymboree this week the theme was jungle and the teacher asked where tigers live. Henry thought for a minute and then said “the zoo!” So cute! He was also the only kid that knew a bird’s mouth is called a beak (or at least was the only one to answer).
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