Over the holidays we had some fun. We had planned on celebrating (a little early) our 6th wedding anniversary with a 2-night stay at the Texas Gaylord Hotel for the Dreamworks ICE exhibit ("Shrek the Halls") and all the other fun stuff they do. Unfortunately, we had all been passing around a cold/virus for a few weeks and that was the week I ended up with a sinus infection, so we stayed home. But, we managed to at least get to the ICE show on it's last day before closing down, and had a lot of fun.
Xaris loved her jacket, which was too big on her! They did have a smaller size, but for some reason they gave her one that came down to the floor and slightly more, and was way too long in the arms. Once it was on, she flapped her arms a couple of times, and realized that she had coat all the way down to her feet, and declared it her "penguino!" She didn't want to take it off.
She didn't like the exhibit at first, but we soon realized that it was not because she was frightened, but just that the 9 degree temperature inside the exhibit was just too frigid for her nose and mouth. Once I put my neck fleecy on her, covering up her nose and mouth she was happy and didn't want to leave. Or, at least once we left, she wanted to go back in. iX was snuggly in her ergo, zipped up underneath my jacket...she slept through the whole thing.
I was really happy that we went, because I was SO disappointed we had to cancel our anniversary trip. Maybe next year :)
I also took Xaris to see the trains exhibit at north park mall. She was very thrilled, because her favorite movie for the past several weeks has been the Polar Express. We have family movie night on Fridays, and she consistently asks for the same movies again and again. At preschool they had a special Polar Express party where the kids got to wear their pajamas, watch the movie in the theater (yes, our church has a movie theater), and drink hot (lukewarm) chocolate. They were each given a ticket, and a jingle bell as a gift, and she has been playing with her ticket (now ripped, and taped paper) and bell ever since.
The train exhibit had a ton of trains, and one was even the Polar Express!
