Christmas come and gone...

It sure felt uneventful this year just lying around with sick kids. I'm so thankful that it was nothing major... and I have to admit I enjoy Kaylin's fevers - no fighting kids!

Just a few holiday highlights since I haven't written in forever.

~Kaylin telling me on Christmas Eve she wasn't asking Santa for anything besides the kitty because we already had too many presents under the tree.
~Santa getting nervous when Kaylin asked for the "kitty" until she explained it was a stuffed animal in a cage (kennel) and I nodded at him and smiled. Her #1 Christmas wish was a $10 clearance item she passed at Target. Score! But "Santa doesn't shop at Target, Mom." Kaylin stated as she worried about whether she would really get the cat.
~Kavan making his Christmas wish list to Santa only as specific as "presents."
~Kavan saying Merry Christmas to everyone everywhere we go.
~Kaylin understanding the REAL Christmas story better than ever before.
~Kavan saying after we visited a LIVE nativity scene where he was afraid to pet the "lambies" - "I want to go to another one!" Didn't know of too many other live nativities so we took them to "lights in the park," a huge charity display in Maplewood - only to find they had a power outage. At least we got to see the musical light show again, The kids loved that. (www.mnlightshow.com)
~Kai saying "whoah tree!" to every lit up tree in downtown St. Paul after first saying it to the Rice Park tree, which is bigger than the one in Rockefeller Center and caused Ben to become upset that they killed a tree so old. I was just happy to experience the Christmas magic of the location where Shayna and Matt just got engaged!