More Christmas Fun

This year I bought Levi an Advent Calendar. He loves opening tabs like the ones on the calendar(some of his books have them) so I knew that he would love it even more if there was a chocolate treat behind. Plus, I get to have some candy too. In the morning when he wakes up he goes to the counter and pulls his step stool over and says "up", "num num". But the routine now is that he gets his treat after his nap...he says "ooohh" when he gets it. This past Saturday, we went to Blandford Nature Center for there Homestead Holiday. Blandford is about 5 minutes away from our house so we bundled up and headed over. I used to go there all the time growing up with my parents to walk the trails and to see the injured animals. We were not sure what the event was all about but we were ready to get outside after all the snow days the past week. Ryan sure was excited when he got "a threepeat" with the snow days. I am sure that will not happened again. But it was nice to be home as a family for those 3 days. At Blanford we got popcorn from the General Store and then waited in line for a horse drawn carriage ride. Levi never had popcorn and loved that. He was pretty nervous around the horses and clung to his "papa". The carriage ride was fun with the jingle bells that the horses were wearing. After the carriage ride we went to play Snow Snakes, a native American game. Ryan did alot better than me at that. We wandered to the old cabin and looked in side and then saw the horseshoe shop. It was good to be reminded of the simplicity of life back then and how family was really important. We ended at Blandford Building to warm up and have cookies and hot cocoa. Levi saw a turtle..but was scared of that...and an owl. It was a fun little outing...when Ryan asked me what my favorite part of the afternoon was...I said just being with my family...its is the best!