Claire had her first overnight babysitter on Friday night and she did great.  We celebrated Clarke's birthday by going to dinner and then going out dancing downtown.  We thought it would be a good opportunity to spend the evening in a hotel downtown so we could sleep in.


Claire is getting excited for Santa to come.  We have a house down the street from us that has 55 santas lit up in his yard.  Claire asks for Santa every day when we get in the car so we always stop by to see it.  She's been communicating very well with us as of late and is quite the little helper.  She now feeds Budinski each day and helps to clean up after Parker is done with his water.  She also helps play fetch with him. 


We have been going around viewing the different Christmas lights in the area because Claire finds them fascinating.  On Sunday we made our way over to McAdenville and walked through the exhibit.

Yet again I didn't go a good job of taking photos and don't remember much else from this week.