Santa's coming to town

We went to the mall yesterday to see Santa and give him Kaden's wish list, which you can see he's reading very carefully to Santa. This is only the third year that Kaden's even come close to the big guy without sobbing. The first year he managed to summon up the courage to sit on his lap was only because he bargained in exchange for a baseball and bat.

This year he couldn't wait! He was giddy. Once he climbed on to Santa's lap you could tell he was so awestruck he didn't really know what to do. He'd planned on introducing Santa to Norah, because they've never met you know. But he was so nervous he just looked at his list the whole time.

And Norah. Our curious little monkey. She laughed and smiled and yanked on Santa's beard. Didn't seem wierd to her at all that mommy had just put her on some strange man's lap.

We also put up the tree last night and decorated the whole house. We woke this morning to our first snow on the ground. It certainly is starting to feel a lot like Christmas ...