Seems like the last couple weekends have been packed full of things....shuffling Chance from one social activity to another. Last weekend we had a great time at Jack's 4th birthday party at a place called Kindercity where Jack and his 3 best buddies: Chance, Gabriella and Ava got to make chocolate snowmen and cookies; play fun games like tug of war and potato sack race; eat yummy pizza and cake, and have an all around good time. It is so fun to see the 4 of them in action. They are so accustomed to being around each other on almost a daily basis that they all have a certain rhythm and place within the group. We feel really blessed for Chance to have found such close friends, and for us as parents to be friends with their parents.
This morning we went downtown to the English bookstore Story Hour, where Santa made an appearance. Chance and Gabriella attended together and were really excited to see Santa. There was about 50 kids there, all snuggled in to a corner of the store with their parents looking on as Santa was about to start reading some Christmas stories. He gets through page 2, all the children are nicely sitting still (except for mine who is preoccupied with the fact that Gabriella is not giving him enough room on the bench), the onlookers are patiently and quietly listening to the story as Santa tells it, when all of a sudden Chance decides to shout out "EXCUSE ME SANTA.......Excuse me Santa....." Santa stops his story, all eyes in the room turn to us and Santa says "Yes, can I help you".....Chance proceeds to say "Well, My name is Chance". And that was it! He needed so desperately to tell Santa his name. Santa reads on a bit, then all eyes turn on us again as Gabriella says "EXCUSE ME SANTA"......."Chance was being very naughty when I was at his house yesterday". At this point I am asking myself why I am sitting by the only 2 kids in the whole place that need to draw attention to themselves? Oh well, it was cute and will definitely go in to the memory bank of Chance moments!
