Seeing Christmas through an almost 3 year old's eyes has been so much fun. We had a weekend filled with Christmas fun...starting with a visit to Santa. We talked about visiting Santa for a few weeks ahead of time - talking about what you would say to Santa and what you wanted to ask Santa to bring you for Christmas. I was still a little nervous that we would have a repeat of last year's visit (crying and refusing to sit with him), but you did so well! I was so proud of you! You climbed right up on Santa's lap, showed him your Husky, told him your name was "Graecyn Oldmic Taylor" (we're working on the Nicole part, but you insist your middle name is Oldmic), that you wanted a scooter for Christmas, and that you were going to see Riley at Papa and Grandma's (we hadn't broken the news to you yet that Riley went to the "special dog farm").
That evening we made it to downtown Rochester to see the Festival of Lights; it's the same thing every year and it is beautiful every year. One of the local bakeries also had an Anna, Elsa, and Olaf display from the movie Frozen made out of buttercream, fondant and cake. It was pretty neat to see and you loved it.
Finally, we went to the Detroit Zoo Wild Lights event with over 5 million Christmas lights! It was really neat and you had a blast. Your BFF Callie and her parents came with us and it was so cute to listen to the two of you chatting away. Towards the end of the night, you and Callie were so excited (and maybe a little overtired) that you were running around holding hands and giggling like crazy. People were stopping left and right to watch you and comment how cute you two were. It was adorable.
