Christmas Tree Lighting

This is our annual tradition as well to go downtown for the Christmas Tree Lighting. In the community center they have different business' that have different craft's for the kid's set up, cookie's & hot chocolate and secret Santa set up upstair's, then Santa comes in on a Horse Drawn Carriage at 7 to light the Christmas Tree. This year was quite fun, as Bailey is able to do more, or so we thought. We sent them to do the Secret Santa, filled out their list of people to buy for and gave them money. Quaid has always done such a GREAT job at picking his gift's and staying within his budget (most items are $.50-5.00). He is really so thoughtful in picking out his gift's for everyone, this year he even took the time to write out all his gift tags. Bailey however was a TOTALLY different story. She came running out within 5 minutes and obviously without wrapping the gift's. She was soo excited and said, "Look what I got", meaning for HERSELF! She managed to get 2 whole gifts for herself and wanted to open them right away. She just didn't get it, that she was supposed to be shopping for everyone else and NOT herself. (I was telling my Mom about this and she was cracking up, she said I was the same way..lol Apparantly it took me forever to get this concept as well) I managed to talk Bailey into giving Quaid one of her gift's and then she could have the other one, only she had to wrap it up and open it on Christmas. It's so funny to see how their different personalities develop and see how different they are in so many things. Like they were also decorating cookie's with icing and sprinkles, Quaid quickly got the icing on then dumped a spoonful of sprinkle's on his cookie, then rubbed them in with the spoon. While he started eating his cookie, Bailey was still putting frosting on, then she took her spoonful of sprinkle's and put them on the plate, then she proceeded to individually pick them up one by one to put them on her cookie. Let's just say Quaid was finished eating his cookie when she finished decorating her's.


Santa arrived at 7, so we went outside to see him, even though Bailey doesn't like him at all!!! I managed to squeeze in behind the platform he was going to light the Christmas tree from, I was soo excited (like a kid...lol) Here he came down through the crowd of people, stands on the platform and turn's his back to us...ARGH, and he didn't turn around either, which was probably for the best because when Bailey saw him she started crying and just wanted to go home!!! After he lit the tree and headed inside, the girl with the microphone said to Bailey, "Do you want to say Merry Christmas", then she said it...sooo cute :)