www.noradsanta.org
This is one of the coolest sites ever. From Dec 1st to the 25th you can play games, check out what's going on in the North Pole and get updates. The videos are so great. I love it. They are now on Facebook so I can start getting updates on there. There is about 1 million people who like it there.
Today they have started giving updates on where Santa is. If you go to their site (above) you can check out where he is and click on them. I can be honest, I started to learn things about these places from this site. Check the link, and click on a gift in the map. They give you photos from this place. It's so cool.
When you click on the video link they show you videos from the most recicent place he has been. Seriously the cutest thing ever!
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Nana and Papa are really enjoying the kids. They both managed to take some time off of work to have the kids over and Rebecca (my sister) and I are so grateful!
Here is yesterdays update:
Christmas Camp Heslop Wednesday
Quinton was the first to wake up this morning, he was in a great mood and already you could tell that he had turned the corner with the hives. We played inside most of the day, to play meaning to make the Christmas cinnamon buns. No one really wanted to help with the flour mixture, so I got that done pretty fast. It was waiting to punch down the dough that had all the volunteers. I lined everyone up and took their pictures showing us their best fist and then off then went punching down the dough. They all thought it was pretty funny that the dough had to take a rest after being punched. When I was all set up and ready for them to do the fun part of putting on the sugar cinnamon and butter, I called in for help. Uncle Jack, to the rescue. He is a pro at making buns and took control of the process while I took lots of pictures. In no time at all we had the buns all ready and starting their second raise, when Kyler started asking when he could eat the buns. This waiting stuff is really hard.
Using the heat of the oven to hurry the raising process along, I made an oven lunch for the kids. They ate lunch while Uncle Jack and I finished making the rest of the buns. After lunch they began a game, which they invented over the past few days. It is called Santa Comes. One of the kid’s fakes they are a sleep and then “Santa” comes into the room and hides a present. The sleeper awakes and has to search for their gift. While they were at this, I started to clean up the sun room for the long awaited sofa to come. This action immediately drew them like magnets to a clean space to dance, run and roll in. Before you knew it there was a concert and dance recital of sorts happening. Who ever wore the Santa hat had to play the piano and the other person or persons had to dance. It seemed like if you could keep your dance on the angle rug you were very good at dancing. Quinton and I stayed clear of the activity and we became the audience. Quinton discovered that hiding and jumping out at the dancer was apparently a hysterically funny thing to do.
Before you knew it, the buns were ready for first samples and so we all went to the kitchen for our first feast. After the buns were tasted we all got into our winter clothes and headed to the part to go on the swings. I taught Amber and Kyler that I could sing The Little Drummer Boy while ruppa pum pumming on their buns (giving them a push). We were not home long when the truck from Forever Furniture drove up to our house. We all trouped into the living room and watched them unload the sofa and carry it to the house, and then ran to the window door between the sunroom and kitchen to watch it being assembled and put into place. This last action took a long time as the audience took a stool and placed it in front of the door so they could sit and watch. When the sofa was finally rolled over they all clapped. The delivery men were smiling ear to ear.
We all went in and tried out the sofa, which I declared was too hard for my poor bum. The only solution was a good old fashion jumping session. So my very obedient grandchildren took a great deal of pride in jumping all over the sofa and then asking me to try it out and see if it was softer. They had to really do a lot of jumping before I was satisfied that could sit on it comfortably.
The afternoon was quickly getting away from us and I still had some baking to finish, so the kids watched the Muppet Christmas carol and Quinton had his afternoon sleep on the lazy boy chair. We didn’t even try to wake him up when it was supper time. After supper we arranged the coffee table and started a Heslop family tradition by opening the puzzle. Everyone wanted to help so we gave the kids the job of looking for the flat edged pieces. When Quinton woke up he showed us how good he was at puzzles by taking apart the pieces that Papa was putting together and re arranging them in very interesting colour combinations. He is very talented at this.
Then it was off to the live nativity. It was as beautiful as ever and just like we had planned the carol sing began minutes after we arrived. After the songs ended, Kyler, Quinton and Amber took turns going up and petting the donkey. Then we loaded back into the car and drove around looking at all the beautiful lights. Kyler fell asleep about five minutes from home. Once back at home we had hot chocolate with marshmallows and Marshmallow seeds ( the dried mini marshmallows that are in the hot chocolate mix), plus more buns. Then it was time to brush our teeth and off to bed. Papa did the story time tonight. They were fast asleep in no time at all.
Highlights
Kyler singing in the bathroom: We wish you a merry Christmas and I go poop. – We are certainly in the celebrating mood here.
Amber running in to the sunroom so excited she almost couldn’t get out the words to tell me Snowball had climbed on the dining room table and was eating the leftovers from lunch.
Quinton calling Snowball the BAD puppy for the rest of the day.
Sofa Bed – well it arrived but didn’t have the special mattress that we ordered in it. They are delivering that in the morning.
Quinton saying “Santa lights, Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas” in such a low voice we thought he would rupture a vocal cord.
Merry Christmas Everyone who reads this. I have enjoyed doing this blog for the last little while and I hope you have enjoyed reading it as well. I'm going to try and update sometime between Christmas and New Years but with moving and everything who knows when I can.
And my last thing......
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Jesus
Happy Birthday to you!
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