"Mom, why does Mrs. Claus always look different?"

And the December fun continues...

Wednesday the 14th wasn't all that fun.  Drew went off to school and came home with a giant headache.  He was actually in tears it was hurting him so bad.  We stayed in, watched Christmas movies and played with our boxes (otherwise known as our train station ticket booth).

We also painted some of the ornaments that we made.

As you can see, Drew was not quite himself on this night.

A train is made...

Train tickets are very expensive!

When we went on the Santa train, Drew made a huge deal about collecting everyones tickets so that he could take them home.  He's been using them ever since in his ticket booth.

This chocolate penguin perked him up a bit.  They each got one for their advent surprise that morning.

The following day, the 15th, was a crazy, crazy, busy day.  James was at work, so it was just me and the boys and we had things to do all over town!  Our first stop was at Scribble n' splatter.  Some of our mommy friends were signing their kiddies up for a day or two of holiday camp there.  James and I had decided to sign Drew up for a half day on the monday to see how he likes it.  You had to register in person, so we went on Thursday during drop-in so that the boys could have some fun too (it's on the other side of town, so it seemed silly to just drive there to register).  It ended up just being Drew doing the crafting as H fell asleep en route!  It was early too, around 10:30....I'm not sure.  His naps are so hit and miss now adays, there really isn't any predicting them.

H woke up when I put him back in the van once Drew was finished with his craft fun, so we went straight for lunch and then to Simply creative for some pottery painting fun.  It was the last day to get something painted in order for it to be ready for Christmas, so in true Bonney style, we got in just under the bell.

Hunter accidentally painted a moustache on himself and this picture shows pretty much the exact moment that Drew realizes what has happened.  So funny!

We had a bunch more running around in there, but it's not so fun to go on and on about it, so I'll cut to the evening, where we hung out with Nana and Papa.

The boys had their dump trucks with them, so there was lots of fun going on.

Drew had pizza day at school on the 16th and therefore got a giant cookie with his pizza.  He saved it to have as an after school snack, which is what he often does with his sweets at school.  I'm not 100% sure if it's because teachers give him a hard time about eating sweets there?  He's never really said.....

My brother's old wii had finally given out...the boys were quite sad.  Papa works near a Toys R Us.  Guess what he came home from work on Friday with??

It was very exciting.......the boys were THRILLED.

On Saturday, we met Lisa, Norm and the girls at Mountsberg for our annual Christmastown visit.  It was so very magical, as it always is.

looking in on the elves flight school.

On Dasher, On Prancer......

Decorating cookies...

Delicious!

Mrs Claus trying to lure the littles over to see Santa.  J and H would have nothing to do with the big man.  I was a bit surprised, as H didn't seem to have any issues with Santa on our previous two visits with him the weekend before.

The closest we could get Hunter.

After a play in the play barn we headed out for lunch.  After much begging (on the adults part) we convinced the kids to allow us to head to East side marios for lunch.  It was perfect.  The kids behaved, the soup was hot, a good time was had by all.

Everyone came back to our place afterwards and we were treated to a number of "shows" put on by the children.....

Katie and Drew came up with this (with Katie writing it out)....how cute it this?!?!?

snacks around a miniature table...so fun to hang with our cousins!

I'm honestly not sure how the adults survived this evening.  The kids were HYPER and so excited just to be with each other.  It's so great to see them getting along so well, and to truly enjoy each others company.

The next morning, we packed up once again and headed out to yet another Santa visit.  This time we were having breakfast with him at our local superstore.  The cooking school was hosting a pancakes with Santa event that we were told was excellent from people who had attended previously.

The pancakes were delicious, but once again, Hunter wouldn't have anything to do with Santa.  Also, on this day, Mrs Claus was sporting a lip ring.  Hmmmm.  Obviously, this is where Drew asked me the question, "mommy, why does Mrs Claus always look different?"

"Well hunny, when you're as famous as Santa, you get all the girls...."

I promise I didn't really say that......