A Trip to the Mall to Visit Santa...

Hi all, C here (been a while)...

On Thursday, we arranged an early evening trip to the Mall to see Santa and have the boys' pictures taken. Dylan adn Kyle both did really well! Kyle "gets it" while Dylan seems to understand some of what Christmas is about.

Here is the picture - it looks much better in person - good smiles from both...
that's tough to do.



Funny story on the way to the Mall:

The boys often watch videos in the car on the way to/from school and on long trips. Usually it's something like Mickey's Clubhouse, Little Einsteins, or Handy Manny. So far so good...

When you're in the front seat, it's hard to change the video or the story (if it's a multi-episode DVD.) Kyle tries to help out by asking for the remote and pushing buttons until he says that the video is all right. Last night, he asked for the remote, we handed it to him, he pushed his buttons and he handed the remote back up to us. We figured all was well...

A while later the boys seemed like they were really enjoying the story. Lisa looked at me and asked what DVD was in the player. "To be honest, I'm not sure - let's see", I replied. (On the console we have an audio feed from the DVD - with just the push of one button.)

So I pushed the DVD button to hear what was so funny - after about 5 seconds Lisa looks at me and I right back at her & we break down laughing. Really good - hurts in the gut - laughing. It took all 5 seconds for us to realize that Kyle (in his zest to make the video play all by himself) had inadvertently set the language selection to SPANISH!!!

So here we are, motoring along with two little chinese boys in the back (one who's just really feeling his oats with English!) listening to videos in Spanish. And neither one said A WORD for the 20 minutes that they watched! Very funny.

Lisa and agreed that we should probably check the DVD audio feed a little more often!!!

Gotta get to bed - Hershey Park tomorrow and the drive-through Light Show tomorrow night.
The boys are really pumped - they dragged their little backpacks (fully loaded for their one-night stay!) all over the upstairs before heading off to sleep.

More soon.
C