st nick

st nick arrived to much excitement. even selma was excited, and greta and otto thought it was hilarious that st nick brought selma things like puffs and other baby treats. after emptying their stockings, our kids did their typical "sort everything and line everything up in an orderly way". do other kids do this?

this was also day 6 of our advent calendar, and our christmas "thing" for the day was to have a christmas music dance party. the dancing was too out of control to get a photo. in fact, otto twirled a bit too long and fell face first into his basket of books in his room. yes, the christmas music dance party involved an injury and blood. but it was fun.

st. nick

we celebrated st. nick again this year, so greta and otto woke up on the morning of december 6th to their stockings full of goodies. you can see in the pictures what otto's favorite thing in the stockings was. greta thought getting oranges in her stocking was pretty neat. (growing up, i always got things like oranges and nuts in my stocking. joe thought this was crazy). they were both pretty tickled to see all the goodies from st. nick!

ol' saint nick

after trimming the tree on saturday, greta and otto woke on sunday to find that st. nick had filled their stockings with some holiday goodies. sweet!