Halloween 2017 Hadley was Elena of Avalor (Disney Junior Princess) who is a Latino Princess in a georgeous red glittery dress. And Sloaney was a purple bunny. She had a wild interest in bunnies at the time because our wonderful neighbor had a bunny statue on his front door step who she constantly wanted to visit and pet. Hadley's dress came from the Disney Store and Sloane's adorable corduroy bunny dress/costume was from Wild Things Kids Play Clothes on Etsy. We did our typical pumpkin patch visit to Spina Farms and made daddy carry our extra large pumpkin this year. Hadley did her field trip with school, so our front yard had an abundance of pumpkins this year. Sloane had her first Halloween parade at school with her little friend Ellie and Hadley continued on the tradition with her buddies on the preschool playground.
Since we really went from Halloween straight into Christmas in Hadley's little mind, we only got a few photos of our turkey dress and Thanksgiving. We stayed true to the "not decorate until after Thanksgiving" mindset, but Hadley was beyond excited this year and Sloane was so excited for "Sa Sa" to arrive.
Now onto Christmas, fast and furious this month was considered. We went to Patchen Tree Farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her neighbors. We followed the Bay Area flow up the mountain with everyone else to cut down a tree. We have officially determined that Hadley gets car sick and does not do well on 1. winding roads and 2. road trips. So after getting up there and looking around we decided on a "Charlie Brown tree" and came on home. It was a good funny tree to talk about over the month. Hadley was soooooo excited with decorating and Sloaney had something to say about every.single.ornament we took out the box.
Hadley's preschool had a Breakfast with the Elves event one Saturday, where the school mascot Henry got dressed up ready for pancakes. Hadley also decided she wanted to donate a toy to a little girl who "Doesn't have any toys" and her school had the first annual Holiday Show. I must say, we are in for a adorable dance recital because she was SOOOOO into her holiday show. Sloane still wants to watch "Hadley dance Hadley dance" videos on our phone. Sloane clearly wants to be just like her big sister because every time Mariah Carey's song "All I want for Christmas" would come on the radio they would both start doing the dance moves.
Our Santa visits were endless. Sloane had no fear of him, although she was hesitant at first. She kept pointing at him, giving him high fives, looking him up and down and kept saying "Sa Sa" when we would leave. We visited several different Santa's and she had the same reaction each time...but no smile :) Our favorite Santa I would say would be the free one at Bass Pro Shop. We did go during the week, where there was no line, but he was so patient with both girls and the fact that he was amazing and FREE was a total plus.
We continued the tradition of making tamales this year and started a new one with going ice skating. Sloane was determined to go ice skating, but due to the crowd and Mason's lack of coordination, she got to watch and eat goldfish and cookies.
Christmas day was magical as expected. Our kids are truly blessed. Hadley asked Santa for 3 things, thank goodness the same three things to every Santa we saw. She got a Barbie castle, American Girl doll, mermaid fin to swim in the pool with, and a Moana necklace. She got an extra toy from Santa with a little note from the jolly man for her heroic efforts in helping Mason during Sloane's seizures. Sloane got a matching sleeping bag like her sister has, a Fischer Price barn and a giant giraffe like at their preschool. The girls were sooooo excited about this giraffe and apparently it's a girl giraffe named Henrietta because "she has eye lashes." Each year the girls get 3 gifts because baby Jesus got three gifts from the 3 wise men. Hadley immediately picked up on the fact that she got 4 gifts and then she noticed the little note from Santa about her extra gift. The girls continued their day with their cousins with donuts and playing with their new toys.
Our year ended with a bang with little H headed to the emergency room because every.thing.is.closed on the holidays and we needed to see a Pediatric ENT doctor. All is good and she did an outstanding job as she got to watch endless amounts of You Tube and got a new penguin. Anyway, I'll gather my next set of photos for Sloane's end of treatment and will probably post again soon.
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