Whilst Daddy was on the phone...

We switched to tape.

Pre-Christmas fun

We had quite wintery weather in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Lots of snow with a mix of temperatures ranging from definitely-not-going-outside cold to let's get-out-now-while-the-sun-is-out "warm". On one of the warmer days we took in a historic house which is decorated inside and out each Christmas. Daniel loved all of the lights outside, the numerous Christmas trees and toy trains inside as well as their menagerie of pet animals.


Giving the giant snowman "knuckles"




Posing with Dad in front of the big train:









Back at home, Daniel's first snowman. We were clearly short on traditional supplies, but I think we did a respectable job.

Daniel's new shovel

We have great neighbours. It might help that they are grandparent wanna-bes who are enchanted with Daniel. A few weeks ago they came over with a Daniel size shovel because they had noticed how much he liked "helping" Keith shovel the snow on our front driveway. Now he is positively obsessed with helping to shovel the snow and we are hoping the enthusiasm continues up through his teenage years.