Well, I got a HUGE surprise last night! Yesterday morning when I woke up there was a note taped to the mirror in my bathroom from Justin saying he was taking me out to dinner to celebrate our recent sign-on bonus. The note had a few instructions regarding what to wear and when to be ready. So obviously I was excited! He had the babysitter all lined up and everthing. So at the designated time, 5:30, I was all ready to go. We went downtown to a really nice steakhouse called Jeff Ruby's and had a FANTASTIC dinner in a nice corner booth and everything. Then our dessert came out and on the plate were two tickets to see the broadway musical Wicked (which I might add had sold out all performances for the month long showing in Cincinnati OVER NIGHT!!!) and the tickets were for that night! He had miraculously gotten ahold of two tickets and the curtain was going up in half an hour! I was so shocked and excited - not only that he had arranged everything, but that he had managed to keep it all a secret for an entire week! The performance was AMAZING! Our seats were about ten rows back on the side and it was just great! Way to go Justin! Nothing tops this one!!!!
Cameron got a basketball hoop from Santa Clause. He's really good at the slam dunks! His sister on the other hand is learning to dribble and daddy has already taught her the proper form for a layup .... just hope they don't expect me to play one-on-one in the future!
Anna on the other hand wrote to Santa Clause asking him for a princess babydoll - and since she stayed on Santa's "good" list last year she received not only a princess babydoll, but and entire princess baby set complete with crib, swing, bathing station and so much more!
Here they are playing their cool new V-Tech video game system they got from grandma and grandpa. It took some learning to use the joy-stick, but she's gotten the hang of it. Luckily Cameron "plays" along side her thinking it's him doing all the movements, hopefully that will last a little while.
We've had trouble lately with Cameron wanting to play dress-up, and having an older sister means there are only princess dresses to wear. So for Christmas he got a number of boy dress-up outfits including the pirates that you see above. Arrrrgghhh!!!
And then my favorite gift of all is the GeoTrax automatic train set. This has to be the coolest train set out there. The pieces actually stay locked together and you can build huge ramps and stuff. Then there's the remote-control train that goes on it --- too cool! If you're in the market for a train, I definetly recommend it!!! Five Stars!!!!!
Anna and Cameron posing with David infront of the train display.
The kids riding on the train together.
Justin, David and the kids posing on the steamboat at the History Center.
The Cincinnati Zoo puts on a Christmas Lights Display every year. So we all bundled up and headed out. It was a lot of fun! Here is Anna posing with Frosty, as you can see Cameron isn't in the picutre - - he was too busy crying over the sight of Frosty.
Mrs. Clause and Anna after story time, again- Cameron refused to pose with anyone in costume.
