Santa. . .and lots of play dates!

Tuesday we went to the mall to see Santa with Adrienne and Ellie. Our goal was to see the Hirst ladies every day last week b/c today they left for the UK for two weeks to celebrate Christmas. Anyway, we walked up to Santa and Jackson was so excited, waving and smiling. . .I just knew we were going to get an incredible picture. However, as soon as I set him in Santa's lap, he began to scream at the top of his lungs. Sweet. . .there goes our awesome Santa pic. It turned out pretty funny despite Jackson's screaming. Also, as soon as I picked him up he waved bye bye to Santa and did the sign for thank you. So, at least he is still polite despite being terrified:)
The rest of the day was really fun as well. The kids played and had a ball.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we played with the Hirst ladies as well. Jackson and Ellie always snack together and Jackson was trying to feed Ellie the cheerios out of his mouth. I guess he was making sure they were nice and soft for her!
Jackson LOVES Adrienne and Ellie and hated to leave each day. He always wants to snuggle Adrienne and held on to her for dear life so I couldn't put him in the car. He also loves Damian and contsantly wants to wave to him while he is working in his home office. Even when Damian isn't home Jackson keeps walking over and looking for him. It's pretty cute and we are just so glad they live so close! Ok, here are WAY too many pictures but I'm obviously not good at narrowing them down.

This is at The Shops at Willowbend in the line for Santa.



Not the greatest picture but at least he's not screaming and he's in his super cute Christmas pj's (thanks Gaga!)



Here are the kids looking ever so entertained while Adrienne and I were in line at the food court.



Jackson loves the mall play area.







Sadly, it was too hard to get a picture of the two kids from the front!







Jackson looking a little crazy with excitment over one of his Christmas presents from Ellie.



I think he's trying to decide what to hit with his awesome new noise making toy. He was just walking around hitting it into his hand like a police officer or something.







Adrienne is helping Jax make noise.



Jackson on a very important business call.



Ellie loving Jax's sunglasses.



Jackson trying to escape the playroom to look for Uncle Damian.



Is it just me or does he look guilty in this picture?



Here he was "talking" to Jay. He just kept saying "daddy. dada."



I think Ellie is calling China in this shot. She had already changed my ring tone.



We may be in trouble when these two can communicate. . .I see them plotting something!



Sweet little Ellie putting on Jax's sunglasses again.

What an awesome week of play dates we had! We are going to miss the Hirsts so much but are super excited to see Uncle Jeremy and the Francis and Oldenburg families soon!