The festivities kicked off on Wednesday for Aunt "Cake"'s birthday. We went to the Zoo in the afternoon with Aunt Cake and Burak, then we went out to eat for the birthday dinner, and finally to Mimi and Pop's for birthday cake! We had a great dinner at Alodia's in Ballentine, and Little Miss mostly behaved herself. She ate lots of bread and some of Daddy's ziti (but none of her ravioli). The thing she was most thankful for on Wednesday? The new tiger truck from the Zoo gift shop!
Thanksgiving is always a busy day for us because we go to Bowman for Thanksgiving lunch and then to my parents' house for Thanksgiving dinner, so we eat A LOT of turkey on Thanksgiving! Little Miss had a blast both places and ate especially well at Mammy and Pop's house. We did have a cute Thanksgiving bow, but someone refused to wear it (and the brown boots)...
Friday we spent mostly at home. Daddy had to do some yard work, and Mommy and Little Miss S played inside and outside while he did that. One of the things she enjoyed? Her new felt Christmas tree:
Friday night we went to the Lights at Saluda Shoals. Her favorite thing was the Winter Wonder Ride - a slide/tubing thing. All the pictures are on my phone :( She asked to do the "boats" over and over! We may go back and spend another evening before the Christmas season is over. I will DEFINITELY take the camera if we go back!
Today we attempted to do two things: 1) let her ride a real choo-choo and 2) get a photo with Santa by going on the Santa train ride at the South Carolina Railroad Museum in Winnsboro. She was excited about getting on the train, at least at first, but she was less excited about the train once we got on it. She calmed down once she got to sit in the seat across from us and look out the window.
(She has a really cute smocked Green santa pants set under the huge winter coat. Thankful that I grabbed her coat as we ran out of the house because those train cars are not climate-controlled, so it was CHILLY on the train!)
Then Santa began to make his way down the train (we were at the front, so we saw him first). This was what happened when she first saw him:
She spent a good part of the rest of the trip with her head buried on Daddy's shoulder looking out the window and AWAY from Santa. We got ZERO Santa pictures and I don't think we'll try again this Christmas.
We did, however, get some good/horrifying video.
"I get OFF the train."
"Bye, Santa Claus."
"Not going to hurt you." (After this video, she then said "Not going to hurt Mommy. Not going to hurt Daddy." She was VERY concerned about if Santa was safe and nice!)
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