Ho Ho Ho!

No crying  this year!

Nana's Birthday

We just got home from a crazy week in S. California, which was highlighted by Nana's (60th ... shhh) Birthday celebration. In honor of the milestone, we visited Disneyland and had a fabulous overall trip. Sonia was as excited as ever to hang out with her cousins and see her favorite princesses. We watched the Aladdin musical, and a boat parade on Balboa Island. Neal was also very excited about everything, and may have come home with a Pluto doll. We won't know for sure until Christmas, of course!

There were too many pictures to post, so we've put them in a web album below (click on the picture to open the album):

Neal update: Sick Day

Neal was home sick yesterday. He was actually "fine", but had a temperature that exceeded acceptable daycare limits. To pass the afternoon Dad took him to check out the Cougar Mountain Zoo. It was our first time there, so we were excited to get an up close and personal look at some new animals. Also, we were (literally) the only one's there, which was exciting. Santa was at the zoo, and walked over to us to say "hi." Over the past month or so, Neal has really turned into a toddler. His vocabulary now includes: doggie (of course- still used to describe any living object, airplanes, and buses), dada (occasionally), uh-oh (as in, "I dropped my milk"), ball (pronounced "ba"), bear (pronounced "ba"), moooo ("cow"), and oo-oo-ah-ah ("monkey").

The cranes at the zoo were cool. They had tigers and cougers as well, but we couldn't get a picture quite as close to those ones.

The llama on the left is named Biff. Biff has, without a doubt, the worst teeth I have ever seen on an animal. Get that alpaca some chewing gum!

Going for a ride on Santa's sleigh.