The Adventures of Will and Sam: Jingle Bells...Twinkle Lights...

As soon as we got home from our Thanksgiving in Connecticut we kicked off the Christmas Season. It was 24/7 talks of twinkle lights and jingle bells. Literally - that is all Will has talked about for the whole month of December. This Christmas Season was probably the best I have ever had - toddlers make everything a million times more fun! Here is a run down of all the Christmas things we did all over the city!

First up - Zoo lights. We went one Friday night - Jason was home early from work, early dinner and off we went not really knowing what to expect. Will had insisted we bring his Radio Flyer car in our car but actually it ended up being a great idea! Between pushing the car and riding in it we went all over the zoo amazed by the lights and sounds. It was a blast.

Ready to ride through the zoo in style

There were 5 songs that played in coordination with flashing lights - we looped through the songs at least 3 or 4 times

Feeling to cool to ride in the car - pushing was much more fun!

No trip is complete without spotting a "mama and the baby"

Loving the carousal ride - Will picked the "kitty" to ride on

Next up was decorating our Christmas tree. We quickly learned a few things:

1. Will was going to be SUPER into the Christmas Tree

2. Every glass bulb was not going to be able to hung where he could reach them

3. He was going to need kid friendly ordainments to hang

Gently adding decorations

Gave up on the breakable ones and adding the kid friendly ones :)

Top of the tree for adults, bottom for kids

Wills runway of lights! Big hit

Kid friendly creation from Aunt Em's last year decorations

It was a very very Cho Cho Christmas. We went out to the burbs to check out the Holiday Cho Cho display at the Botanical Gardens. It took about 45 mins to get there - which is probably one of the longer drives Will has ever been on - but it was a beautiful day and were so glad we went. The actual exhibit was smaller then we expected but Will managed to stay in there for an hour or so. His reaction in the pictures really say it all!