Thsantha!

I had a better experience than Cristin at gymnastics today.  Ellie and I were in the beam/bar rotation which last time did not go well but today she was very interested in walking the beams and, rather disturbingly and for reasons a bit unclear to me, she was doing pullups on the bar.  Phoebe has become wary of the foam pit and at some point injured herself somewhere or somehow and melted to the point where she did not want stickers and then later double melted because she didn’t get stickers so I took her downstairs and the teachers had seen those 1000x times and set her up.  After gymnastics we went to the zoo for some kind of holiday event where they put 200 inflatable santas and snowmen and 1 inflatable dreidel-carrying, yamaka-wearing bear around the park so that every child under 4 has 0 interest in seeing any the animals.  Phoebe got the courage up to hug Frosty but cried at the sight of both Santa and Rudolph.  Ellie hung in the backpack and got to use one of her 10 words quite a bit.  To her, anything Christmas-related is Santa.  This includes snowflakes, Frosty, candy canes, etc.