It's Santa's Train!!! (+ Santa Visit #2)

I love trains!  Anyone who knows me knows how incredibly intrigued I am by trains.  So when Mommy happened upon an announcement on My Baton Rouge Mommy about the Kansas City Southern (KCS) Railroad's Holiday Express coming to Baton Rouge, she knew they had to take me!  And I'm so glad they did.  We all had a great time, even Madeline loved it!

I was super excited when we arrived and I realized I would be so close to the railroad!  I could see the tracks and the ties and everything!

We boarded the train through the Caboose.  Santa's elves were on hand to help us.

And right inside we found Santa Claus himself!  I was so happy to see him!

I, on the other hand, was not too thrilled at all about the man in the big red suit with the fuzzy white beard.  This was as close as I was going to get.  The nice elf used our camera to take this picture for us.  

There were four cars of model trains set up for us to look at.  I was completely enthralled!  I had such a good time watching them go around and seeing all the details to their setup!

The outside of the train was just as cute and festive!  I loved "ooh"ing and "ahh"ing at all the pretty sparkly decorations and shiny lights!

We had such a fabulous time!  It put us right in the perfect Christmas spirit!

Santa Visit #1

The first Sunday of December, Daddy and Mommy took us to the Mall of Louisiana to see Santa Claus and have our picture taken.  See, they knew I'd have at least one more opportunity to see St. Nick at my school, but they wanted to make sure to get a picture of me and Madeline.  Well, they should've saved their money!  That silly girl wanted absolutely nothing to do with Santa Claus!!  I guess she doesn't realize that she has to tell him what she wants if she's going to get any presents on Christmas.  I sure got up there and told him I want a BBQ Grill and all of the Bob the Builder machines!  I took a great picture, but Madeline wouldn't let go of Mommy at all!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree.....  

After begging for days, we finally got to decorate our Christmas tree!!  It was going to be so much fun!  This year I chose to have red and green ornaments.  We used about half of our assortment from last year, and Mommy got some additional ones (mostly the stars) for this year!  My first job was to put the hooks on the individual ornaments.  And I did a great job, too!

I was so anxious to get my ornaments on the tree!  As soon as we finished eating, it was time!  I got to put the first ornament all by myself!

Mommy brought me over, too, and held me up so I could put some ornaments on just like my Bubby!

My job became handing the beautiful ornaments to Daddy and Bubby, while Mommy kept working on hooks.  I "ooh"-ed and "ahh"-ed at each one, too!

And then it was time to put the star on top.  This is probably the last year I get dibs on this job without a fight from my sister, so I took full advantage of it!

Ta-Da!  It's beautiful!