Pre- Christmas 2011

It's no big secret that Christmas is always pretty crazy for us each year. This year was nice, though, because both Matt and I had Friday 12/23 off from work. So we had the day to ourselves before all the scheduled festivities. Matt wanted to go out and finish up his shopping for me so Chase and I headed to Marbles Museum (along with about 500 other people in Raleigh) to get some quality play time in.

But first, we had a pretty laid-back morning at the house. Chase had a "picnic with yogurt" in the floor of the kitchen, which is always nice.

He's been funny this year with the tree. He's really interested in the ornaments. So interested, in fact, that he will take a few and hang them in his kitchen. (Darn it. I should've gotten a picture of that to demonstrate...)


He grabbed one of my headbands from a drawer in our bathroom while I was getting ready and wanted to wear it.



Luckily we left the headband in the car once we got to Marbles, which was good because he had a lot to do...


Important phone calls to make...


...Food to cook...




...and work to do.


We had a lot of fun playing and getting geared up for the Christmas fun.

(more pictures to follow)