All I Want for Christmas . . .

Dabney's our toothless wonder :)

When we visited Santa for Saint Nicholas Day, he greeted Dabney with: "I know what you want for Christmas, your two front teeth!"  
(She had lost her second tooth on the floor of the mall on our way to see him, thanks to an accidental brush with Maegli's finger.)

O Christmas Tree

We're still settling into our new house, but it certainly feels more like home this holiday season with a Christmas tree in our living room.  We found a great place in northeastern Ohio, Brenner Tree Farm, for our tree hunt.  We love this tradition!

It certainly helps to have a super strong young man who can carry our tree back to our car by himself :) 

Mentos Experiment

Davis, as part of his middle school Physical Science class, got to create a soda explosion in our new neighborhood.

Mentos added to Diet Coke rapidly removes carbon dioxide from the soda, causing a geyser of carbon dioxide bubbles out of the top.  Davis first hot glued a stack of 10 Mentos together so he could quickly add them all at once to the soda.  He performed his experiment on the street in front of our new house - with an audience of siblings looking on from the front windows, and big brother recording the results for Davis' class. 

Hands-on experiments are the best!

Happy Saint Nicholas Day!