We did a few festive things this weekend, which felt a little weird in the tee-shirt weather we're having, but nice nonetheless. Downtown Redwood City has an annual winter festival and it was pretty chaotic with parking and homeless-looking people roaming around with large donkeys, but we enjoyed wandering around for a little while, having corndogs, and Jackson liked watching the carnival rides that he had no interest in trying to go on himself. Here he is playing in the snow pile they brought in.
The line for pics with Santa was predictably long and we skipped it. I'm not a huge Santa person because I wasn't raised believing in Santa so it all seems so odd to me, but Dan believed when he was little and enjoyed the thrill of it. We're trying to have a little Santa for Jackson, but we'll probably not try to convince him that he's real and just admit up front that he's a pretend friend. I'm terrible at deception anyway so he'd probably figure it out before 3 anyway.
We also took a stroll down our favorite San Carlos street that does over-the-top house decorations. So fun this year now that Jack loves the lights. We plan to go back several times this season.
Here's a few of the same event last year with 6 month old Jack tucked into Daddy's coat.
And the same spot this year with a growing family
Even better than pictures with a live Santa!
One of his favorite sounds to make is the "choo-choo" of a train.
We also got our tree up, but no pictures of that yet. Jack's doing an ok job of not attacking it constantly and pulling off ornaments, but I can tell that he's battling the urge constantly.
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