When is Light-Up Night??

Situation Normal, All... you know how that ends, right? (I am trying to keep this site family friendly....) To judge by the smiling faces in this picture, you'd never guess that Kai had been sobbing moments before. See, this was her first year playing in the brass band at Light-Up Night. And we missed it. (Except Daddy!) He took Kai over ahead of time, and good thing, too - turns out we had the wrong time! We showed up just as the lights were being turned on - well after the band played and the girl scouts sang.

Then we had to wait in a REALLY long line to see Santa because we didn't join the line until after we found Scott and Kai. And Grandma and Grandpa didn't really care about Santa, you know - they were there to see Kairi. *sigh*
And when we got to Santa, with two small girls in tow, what happened? Lots of tears, of course.
Worse yet, Nicky looked on the verge of tears after the fact. He finally explained - he had figured out that the helper at Light-Up Night is NOT the real deal. After I explained about helpers, he realized the REAL Santa comes to Daddy's work for Breakfast with Santa, so that's all right. (You can tell because that Santa has the real beard.) Phew!

But being us, a little drama can't keep us down for long. Not when there's Viennetta in the freezer and goofy children swinging from the chandeliers!