Christmassy

We're trying to squeeze every Christmassy moment we can into the season. There are so many wonderful things to do! A few nights ago we made salt-dough ornaments and last night we painted them. We tried to do a hand and a footprint of Fredericks. When Pete pressed Frederick's little foot into the dough, it left behind a bit of toe fuzz. It was cute because he's a baby. 

 This morning we got up early and went downtown to the old Marshall Field's (now Macy's) to try to get into the Walnut Room for a meal. I say 'try' because the wait can get up to 3 hours long. We were there early enough to get a table almost immediately, and right next to the tree!

 On our way out, we dropped some notes to Santa into the special mailbox.

 Once we found our way outside we wandered around to look at the windows. It's really the first time we've taken the kids down to see them. Henry was there once when he was a little baby...either his first or 2nd Christmas, I'm not sure which without look back. It was still Marshall Field's then.

Today is the first day of Hannukah. We're going to cook a brisket, make some latkes (we do live in Northbrook, after all...) and maybe watch Elf and eat Christmas cookies!