Christmas-ing continues!

As this may be our last sunny weekend before the year ends, we thought we would take advantage. Since Matthew's class went on a bus for their most recent fieldtrip, Matthew's been asking to go on the bus again. We woke early on Saturday (again!) as it seems that Matthew likes sleeping in on the wrong days! Arghhhh!!! We caught the bus at Oakridge and rode it to the Cambie & Broadway train station. He was very excited about being on the bus. He said "Hello Bus Driver" when we hopped on (he even said thanks when we left!) He was looking out the window and around on the bus. He's been on the train now a few times but it doesn't seem to get old for him. Especially this time, he got to stand and hold the rail! He was trying out his balance. He stood without holding the rail and had to shift his weight. It was cute to watch and he kept his balance well. The passengers seemed to have gotten a kick out of this little show! We rode the seabus to grab lunch at the Quay again. We napped him late, around 2pm. Although it was late, it kept saying "no sleep". But once he got set up, he went out like a light. So much for listening to a 2 year old! We shopped a bit around downtown. Holt's was having a "Black Friday" sale - trouble! Then when he woke, we trained it to the Yaletown Candy Lane event in search for Santa. Before we went on this outing, I had showed him the previous years of photos with Santa. I told him that we will be looking for him and for him to think about what he wants when Santa asks him. So when we got to Yaletown, it was a zoo! We finally found the line for Santa, but it seemed to have wrapped around the block and couldn't even get a view of the jolly man so we trained it back to Oakridge where we knew the line couldn't be as long. Great call! We only waited for one other family to get theirs done and then it was our turn. Just as we were getting called for our turn, they had to reload the film. So we patiently waited with a good view of Santa. Santa was waving to Matthew and he was waving back. I wished I could know what Matthew was thinking! Then we settled in on Santa's lap and his chair. Santa asked Matthew what he wanted and Matthew responded with a straight face "May I have trains please?" Santa responded that he will work hard on it and that he's a big fan of trains himself. Then snap, snap, snap...I think the photographer must have taken 20 shots of us because the Elf was having lots of trouble getting Matthew to smile. She even tried to use a dust feather to tickle him but Matthew only swatted it away! This was very, VERY serious business for him!