Christmas with The Clark

Yes Christmas was a loooong time ago but it takes us a while to recover so here's the down low. The Gailans were home bound this year, soaking up all the zero degree temperatures and generally just lazing around. Christmas morning Clark awoke to presents under the tree and was...not impressed. He still doesn't get it. We tried patiently to help him unwrap but really all he wanted to do was play with the first stocking stuff he saw: a dollar store Thomas the Tank Engine car (which I haven't seen in a few weeks come to think of it...hmmm). But the rest of his haul was pretty awesome. Pete the Cat books from Dave and Nikki, more books from mom and dad, an orange from Santa, and a sweet scooter from the parentals! We can't take the scooter outside because of the piles of snow but come spring he's gonna love it! 

Our next stop was the Gailan family Christmas at Sonny and Sue's. Clark made off with a very cool wagon and some blocks. He and Stella wasted no time figuring out if they could both squish inside for a ride. PS Stella might be the cutest thing ever. She just started crawling and loves to giggle.

New Years Day we headed up to Ellensburg for fondu and more cousin time. Clark was Anderson's little shadow and almost ate some vegetables under peer pressure but eventually came to himself and spit them out. The funniest part of the day was when we spent ten minutes stuffing the kids into snow gear, took a five minute car ride over to a sledding hill, only to get there and realize the wind was Mach 5 speeds and it wasn't gonna work. Did that stop us? No it did not. We fully got out of the cars, marched up the hill, sat Clark down and gave him a little shove. Unfortunately a gigantic gust of wind happened by so he squeaked to a stop five inches down the hill and promptly fell over screaming. It was hilarious and sad. We all ran back to the cars and gave up. Memories.

Wonderful family time in a low key Christmas!