Christmas 2012

As usual, December is a very busy month.  Besides Evan's birthday, we have other parties and holiday activities to keep us super busy.  I took Evan down the street to our town Christmas tree lighting, complete with Santa arriving in a fire engine.  This year, we opted to decorate a gingerbread train instead of decorating cookies.  Oh, there were cookies, though.  Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip cookies for his class birthday treat; Bourbon Bacon Chocolate Chip cookies for a cookie swap.  Mommy was also asked to make cookies for Santa...mmm, chocolate chip!  Much as she tried to convince him, Evan insisted that Santa did NOT want carrots for a snack.



Evan opens some presents:

Evan displays his juggling skills:

Evan's 3rd Birthday

For Evan's third birthday, we (apparently) set the tone for the next year with a bounce house kids party.  I say, "set the tone," because Evan attended no fewer than 8 birthday parties at local bounce houses for kids in his class after this one.  He had attended this same bounce house a year earlier when he was two, and he while we got him in one bounce chamber, he was too young and intimidated by the larger apparatus.  Much changes in a year's time.