Despite talking about Santa for over a week now, and claiming he would sit on his lap and ask for toys, please, Jack wasn’t too sure about seeing a real live Santa. The photo above is from the end of the Santa party, and it is the first time Jack allowed Santa to touch him without a buffer.

Here he is with Grandma:


























And here he is with me (yes, I know I’m not supposed to pick him up. Tell him that.):


























He was, however, willing to accept a gift:


























All in all it was a successful Santa visit, and Julie threw a great party once again.

Earlier in the weekend Jack went back to the zoo. I would swear he would be sick to death of the place by now, but he talks about it constantly. Just now, in fact, he said “Animals. Again.” Nothing prompted this outburst – he’s sitting across from me eating sausage.

So here he is with the tiger:


























And the tortoise:



















































The poor capybara:


























And of course, the goats:















And now we have some random photos that were in the camera. Starting with his new sunglasses:






















His new train:






























And a sleeping shot I just couldn’t resist:















Now I am completely caught up on all of our activities. This week promises to be busy getting ready for the baby, but of course we have a million activities thrown in for good measure.

I haven’t thought of a name for the new blog yet, so if anyone has ideas please let me know. The new baby will most likely be named Nicholas. Hopefully I’ll come up with something brilliant.