The Crazy Clark Crew had a lot to be thankful for this year....including (but not limited to) SELAH!
It was her first Thanksgiving and once she discovered that Mommy's favorite holiday revolved around food she was thrilled! (see picture)
Andre of course was all too familiar with Thanksgiving and he decided to sit right down on a tree stump in Gigi's yard and think about all he was thankful for...
stumps, rocks, crackers, violins, bubble baths, juice-juice, saxaphones, books, harmonicas, froggie, mimi, puzzles, blues clues, spatulas, gee-tars, etc....
(all things he has actually included in bed-time prayers)
After Thanksgiving, mommy wanted to get the house ready for Christmas. So the stockings were hung by the chimney with care and Dad found the biggest artificial tree he could track down.
Little full. Lotta Sap.
After hours of light stringing and hanging of ornaments (Andre called them pornaments), I had to admit...
Its beautiful Clark! :)
So now there was really only one thing we had to do before Christmas and that was to visit Santa! For those of you who are unaware-Santa and Mrs. Claus live in Canton! So off we went-with visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads.
So it turns out that Mrs. Claus can't have sugar plums becaue she was recently diagnosed with diabetes. (Seriously she volunteered this information to my 2 1/2 year old! what the?)
Selah is equally confused.
Anyhoo.
Once Mrs. Claus stopped gabbing our ears off about her current health issues-we made it to Santa! (who by-the-way seems healthy as a reindeer)
Andre told him his only wish for Christmas: a candy cane. If you ask him what else he wanted he said, "to lick it." :)
With our mission accomplished we headed back towards the car when we realized Selah was missing. She had accidently gotten mixed up with the various decor. Oh no- I think she spotted Mrs. Claus again...The other toys have obviously learned to look in the opposite direction when she's approaching so they aren't noticed.
Don't worry Selah- we found you! :)
And then it 'twas here-the night before Christmas! And all through the house everyone was stirring-cookie batter to be exact.
Andre made Santa's favorite: oatmeal chocolate chip. (The next morning we would discover that Santa finished off his cookie and helped himself to almost the entire batch left in the kitchen!)
Andre and Selah each got to open just one present on Christmas Eve. Andre got a brand new Jesus Storybook Bible which he LOVES. He kept running around saying, "Andre's NEW Bible!"
Selah kept trying to follow him-looking for an opportunity to rip out a page...
Before the sun woke up on Christmas Day, The Clark Crew was up ripping through presents that Santa left. (and sweeping up crumbs of cookies left behind) Being a pro-Andre introduced Selah to the art of opening gifts...
TaDa! Selah got her very own musical purse (complete with lipstick rattle, a mirror, keys and a crinkly dollar bill). She was a bit underwhelmed.
But the gift of the year was definitley Andre's new guitar! Just like a real one-except no one has been able to "tune" it properly. Or maybe thats how its supposed to sound?! Anyway- Santa really shouldn't have bothered bringing any other gifts once Andre opened his "gee-tar". It never left his side the whole day...week...month...
In other exciting news- it seemed that Santa actually forgot a gift and came back to deliver it when we SPOTTED him in our backyard!! Yes. The actual-really-real Santa was at our house Christmas morning and we got to say hello and thank him for the presents!
"Wait Santa!, Andre cried out, "let me play you a song on my gee-tar!!!"
As if Christmas couldn't get any better-It SNOWED!! (weeks later we would all be SICK of it-but for Christmas it was magical.)
Andre and Daddy made the first of 3 snowmen. Andre loved it and when he woke up the next morning he said, "Lets go put a snowball on a carrot! " ;)
Christmas night Auntie Cha-Cha would help them make an even awesome-er snowman using Mr. Potato Head's facial features. The chocolate chip teeth kept falling out but it was still cool.
If only they could find the Mr. Potato Head tongue...they could make a silly snowman....
SELAH! :)
Merry Christmas and a Silly New Year to you!
Love, The Clarks
