Lights, Trains, and Santa

We're establishing our Christmas traditions this year by doing some of the same things we did last year:  the light show at Macy's and a visit to see Santa in the Christmas Village at City Hall.  We took the trolley down with friends, David, Mara, and their 21-month old daughter, Lucy (one of Oscar's first friends).  Beforehand, we all went to Reading Terminal Market to check out a special train exhibit there (and if the trains are there next year, we'll continue that as a tradition as well).

The exhibit had plenty of buttons for Oscar to push (his favorite!).  Each button made something in the exhibit move.

Then we were off to Macy's to see the light show.

Oscar during the show...

And then when he realized it was over.

 At the Christmas Village, Lucy and Oscar watched the carousel.

And then on to the last tradition of the day: a visit and a picture with Santa.  O.K. high-fived the photographer and hopped up on Santa's lap, no sweat.  This kid is down with Christmas (and he doesn't even know about the presents yet!).  All in all a fun day -- and we're already looking forward to doing it again next year.