25 December 2008

opa!

one of my family's traditions is to do "christmas around the world" each year.  we learn all about the christmas traditions of another country; we eat their traditional christmas meal, play their traditional games, sing their traditional songs etc.  this year we celebrated like the greeks!  we had a great time eating hummus, smashing plates, playing the triangle, delivering gifts to the kids at the hospital and much more.  at the end of the evening santa even made an appearance!

us at the hospital after delivering gifts to the pediatric wing

mia couldn't believe the real santa came to bring her a present!

she had no problem giving him a big squeeze!

this is as close to sitting on santa's lap as george would get!

mia showing off her new skates!

george may not have liked santa, but he had NO problem accepting a gift from him!

3 comments:

jamie said...

poor george! at least its normal! you should check out the ones of me with santa when i was little. PERFECT skates...little joe almost thought he was going to take them home.

Kevin and Natali McKee said...

That is cool you do that tradition. Santa was totally grabbing your butt. Just Kidding around.

sweet mama entropy said...

That is such a fun idea! We may just have to try that with our family :)