Successful Saturday!

This morning started off with Leah's gymnastics class. We are on week 3 and she L.O.V.E.S. it! She has such a good time when she is there. This is a parent/tot class and Rob has been taking her every Saturday (and participating). They don't let parents stay in the gymnasium, but we are allowed to go up to the balcony and watch the kids below. They get to do rolls, jumps, walk on the balance beam, and hang onto the bars. She especially likes the trampoline! Today she mastered the bear crawl and the crab crawl! I am one proud momma. She is getting better each week.

After gymnastics, we had to race home and get ready. We had holiday pictures scheduled at noon. We had to get Leah (and Rob) changed and then head out the door. We did a Christmas mini-session with Jennifer Marie Photography. Basically, it is a shorter themed session at a great rate. She always does a fantastic job. (We've done Easter mini's, Fall mini's and Valentine's Day mini's with her too)! She had lots of holiday props and a cute backdrop. I dressed Leah and Mason in their holiday outfits. I was expecting the worst (in terms of the kids cooperation), but to my surprise, the session went GREAT!! Leah did awesome! She listened and smiled and did not give us a hard time! Mason did okay. He was not full of smiles, but I would take that any day over crying or crankiness! I think we got a lot of great shots and I can't wait to see them. We did some of the kids together and separately and then a few family pics. I am hoping to have a few that I can pick from for our Christmas cards.

We had told Leah that if she was a good girl (for the pictures), we would take her to see Santa again. (That is all she talks about). As soon as we got to the car after our pictures, she immediately told us she wanted to go see Santa. We weren't going to go back on our word, so to see Santa we went. Leah has already seen Santa once and we didn't really want to fork over another $20 for a picture, so we went to Bass Pro Shop. I had heard kids can see Santa for free so we thought we would check it out. Apparently, a ton of other people had the same idea. It was pretty crowded. They do have a system down where you get a ticket that will tell you what time to get back in line so you don't have to wait forever. We got there about 1:15 pm and our line time was not until 2:30 pm. We definitely had some time to spare. We were going to have lunch in the restaurant there, but that too was pretty packed. We decided to walk over to Gordon Biersch instead. Lunch was good and it killed all the time we needed. We went back to Bass Pro Shop and had to wait about 25 minutes (a little longer than I thought we would have to wait since we had our line pass). Leah was just as excited to see Santa the second time as she was the first time. She told Santa what she wanted and gave him a big hug.

We were pretty pooped when we got home. We all put our jammies on and watched Christmas movies. Overall, today was a successful Saturday in my eyes!!