Happy Hanukkah

Whew, December has been busy. Last Saturday we went to Grandma and Grandpa Greenberg's for an early Hannukah celebration with Ethan. Ethan's favorite part was Grandma's Hanukkah cookies! He also got to light the candles (with Dad's help) and he did enjoy opening up some presents too.

The coolest gift was a new bookshelf for his room from grandma and grandpa.
He cracked us up when he unwrapped hannukah gelt (gold chocolate coins) and announced that he had gotten "gold doubloons" and he was going to put them in a treasure chest. I seriously had to wikipedia "gold dobloons"--he apparently picked up this phrase from his favorite cartoon, "Jake and the Neverland Pirates". So at least he has learned something from TV!

Grandma's Birthday and a Visit to Santa

Last weekend was another busy holiday weekend. We had several holiday parties, and on Sunday night we went downtown to celebrate Grandma Greenberg's 65th birthday!!

Doesn't she look great for 65??

We enjoyed her favorite meal --Chinese food in Chinatown, and Brandon flew up for the dinner so that was a lot of fun.

Also last weekend, Ethan met Santa. He was pretty excited, especially when Santa gave him a candy cane.

Now when I ask him what he wants from Santa for Christmas, he responds "CANDY!!" Well, at least hes not asking for anything too expensive!!!

Christmas=Downsized

We are minimalists this Christmas....having just signed all the papers for our new house, we are feeling pretty financially overwhelmed.
Plus in our 700 sq. foot apartment we dont really have room for a tree. And all of our Christmas decorations are in storage.
So we got a mini-tree this year.
The cool thing about it is that it is plantable! So after the holidays, we plan to plan it in our new yard. And maybe in 10 years it will be a regular sized Christmas tree and we can use it again!

Hppy Birthday Daddy!

Dear Daddy,
Happy birthday. Thanks for taking such good care of me and especially for sharing your birthday cake with me, it was VERY GOOD.
I think that ice cream cakes are my favorite now too!

Love, Ethan