Skylar, Dakota, Karen and I met Lisa, Ellie, Hannah, and my dad at Longwood Gardens last night to see the Christmas displays. We had a great time and it wasn’t SUPER cold like the last time I was there (probably 10yrs ago or more!). It was cold but not freezing. Skylar loved running around with Ellie and Hannah and seeing the Christmas trees and the lights. But her favorite part was probably the trains they had set up. They had a display outside that had about 3 or 4 trains and then a smaller display with a Thomas the Tank Engine train running on it. She could’ve stayed there for hours watching them! Then when we went inside again to see the music room display they had another train in there that she could’ve stood and watched for hours too! She loves her trains… Here’s a random picture I snapped of Skylar where I thought she looked cute riding in the car with her sunglasses on and eating her puffs- just chilling looking out the window.
We had a good weekend. Chris, unfortunately, got sick on Thursday so he was out of commission on Thurs and Fri. It made for a couple long days for me with taking care of the girls myself and only marginally taking care of him. Oh yeah, and throw in Nittany in there for some extra fun too. Good times. Luckily Chris was feeling better by Saturday morning. We had a birthday party to go to for a mom’s group friend of mine- her son was turning 1. They had the party at a place called “Romperoo” in Glen Mills- it’s kinda like a My Gym place. They had music instruments to play with, toys to climb on, a ball pit thing, a parachute to play with and bubbles. Then pizza for lunch and cake afterwards. Skylar had a great time and it was nice for me to see some of my mom’s group friends who I haven’t seen in awhile. I’m hoping to get back into the swing of going to exercise class in January- assuming I can manage to get myself and the girls out the door by 9am to get to class! Wish me luck.
Sunday we decided to take Skylar to visit Santa at the mall. I was interested to see how she reacted to him. I honestly can’t remember if we took her last year to see him or not with all the chaos of moving and all. This year she liked seeing Santa… from afar 
When it came time for her turn to sit on his lap, she wanted nothing to do with it. She was clinging to me like a barnacle! So what they were able to do was have her sit on my lap and Santa scooted forward for the picture to make it look like she was sitting on his lap. Nice! But she did manage to warm up to him enough to tell him Merry Christmas and a couple things she wanted for Christmas (with some prodding from me)- and then thank you and bye bye. And then we had dinner at the food court as a treat. Here’s Skylar “patting” Nittany (instead of her usual baby dolls) before we went to the mall: Doesn’t he look like he’s enjoying it so much
Dakota had her 2 month checkup last week. She weighed in at a whopping 11lbs 13oz and was 23″ long. That’s the 75th percentile for weight and 60th percentile for height. Wow- she a giant compared to Skylar! Literally. She’s already half the weight of Skylar at 2 months old and about 10-12inches shorter. She has started smiling and “talking” more- not so sure she’s doing the “cooing” people talk about but she likes to make her noises. Skylar definitely loves holding her. And she even picked up a burp cloth 1 afternoon and put it over her shoulder like she sees Mommy/Daddy doing and asked to burp her. So I put Dakota over Skylar’s shoulder and took a picture- it was funny to see how big Dakota looked compared to Skylar!
Only 12 days til Christmas- craziness! Where does the time go??
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