Early Christmas w/ Aunt Val and Uncle Nadim

We celebrated Christmas last week early with my sister Val and her husband Nadim. We had a lot of fun with them and the kids were sad when they left. Ryder loves his Aunt Val and even became attached to Uncle Nadim as well. Thanks Aunt Val and Uncle Nadim for all the fun gifts!

Meeting Santa

Last week we had Nils's work Christmas party. We all met up at the local resturant and ate. We ended up only taking Ryder with us because Brooklyn didn't feel too well. We heard when we got there that Santa would be coming so we told Ryder. He was all sorts of excited and eating his dinner and asking when he'd come. The minute Santa came in and said, "Ho, Ho, Ho." Ryder jumped out of skin and ducked down in his seat. He was terrified! I finally got him to somewhat take a picture with him, but as you can see he was not thrilled.

Ryder sat in his seat and tried to eat his dinner, but was till terrified of Santa coming. Santa walked around the resturant and each time Ryder heard his bells comes near us, he dropped his fork, closed his eyes, and sunk down in his seat. After the party I asked him if he still wanted Santa to come to his home and bring him toys and he said, "Yes, when I go to sleep."