St. Nikolaus Day

We had a lovely St. Nikolaus Day weekend! (For those of you non-Germans, the kiddos put out their shoes on Dec 5th, and then St. Nik either brings candy or coal, depending on their behavior.) On Friday we went to the Museum of Natural Science with Isabel & Heather, which was especially fun as Heather used to work there and gave us the grand tour.





Story time that day was a turtle book, and the kids got to pretend to be turtles and see a few different types of real turtles, too.





After a busy day at the museum, Charlie set out his boot for St. Nik, and woke up to this:




Sadly, my hopes for a snowy December fell on deaf ears. Instead of playing in the snow that afternoon, we had to settle for leaves!





We capped off the weekend by visiting Matt & Paula and doing some cookie baking. As always, Charlie helped with a few cookies and then lost interest until there some ready to eat!