The pre-holiday celebrations

The holidays came and passed. We had a wonderful time, both in our new home and at our parents' homes back in Romania. There were a lot of small cute events, so I'll try to summarize.

Christmas celebrations before we left. Last year we went to the theatre to see Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and then to a Macy's downtown to visit the Dickens village. It was a nice tiring experience and this year we decided it's worth repeating. It was a snow storm warning that day, but we did not get intimidated. It was a wonderful day, Catalina was in much better spirits, and the lines for the Dickens Village much shorter than last year. We experienced the first flurries of the season that day and Catalina was beside herself with happiness. She wanted to have a snow ball fight, even though there was hardly any snow laid.

 My gorgeous little girl posing next to a tree in the Dickens Village. She was all smiles and good spirit that day!

Later that day we made a snow man. Catalina decided she's not going to waste a good yummy carrot, so she left him without a nose.

This pretty much started our Christmas preparations. Next, obviously we went shopping for a Christmas tree. We stopped less than 5 minutes away from out house and found our happiness among pine trees that smelled heavenly.

 Catalina loved decorating the tree. She found some old stockings and ornamental gloves and decided she is cold. This silly girl of mine!

Our former neighborhood hosts a very nice event. Santa comes in a firetruck and kids get to sit on his lap. There are free cookies and free coffee and a choir that sings Christmas carols. I love the atmosphere, so we went!

Catalina does not like her face painted, but mommy does!

Those big wide smiles are for Santa who has just climbed down from the fire truck!. All the kids were screaming and mine was ecstatic.

She said it out loud, she wants a PET SHOP!

We had friends joining in our celebrations, and Catalina liked eating cookies with her old friend

Daddy enjoyed some yummy hot chilly.

Catalina was getting ready to say good bye to daycare for a quite a while. Before we left, there was the Christmas concert. I wasn't sure Catalina will even stand with her classmates, so it was a nice surpise to see her all one big smile

  For one of the songs they had a Hawaiian skirt and Catalina love it. It was actually the only part of the concert in which she chose to participate. She did not sing, but she did shook her cute tiny butt :)

 And this is where Catalina says good bye to her teachers and her friends. She was THAT excited. She knew we're going to Romania and soon she'll be spoiled 24/7:)