The Parrillo Family

Earlier this month, we took all three kids and met Grammie and Granddad out at Wannamakers in Downers Grove for a chance to meet Santa's reindeer and a short sit on the Big Guy's lap.  Well...SD and Frankie took the opportunity to sit on his lap.  Ellie?  She kind hung to the side. Here's SD and Ellie meeting Prancer. In an attempt to make the line 'feel' shorter, the fine folks at Wannamakers put out some coloring pages.  Here's SD's handiwork. When we finally got up there, SD got right on Santa's lap.  Ellie carefully sat to the side taking it all in. Sadie told Santa EXACTLY what she wanted!

He *really* wanted control over the spoon.

As any family does, we spent some time in the nights prior to Halloween carving pumpkins.  Ellie and Sadie both drew what they wanted their jackolanterns to look like and then I took out the knife and cut them as best as I could to how they wanted them to look. Here's the post from last year showing us carving the pumpkins  and trick-or-treating.  Frankie was just 10 days old on Halloween in 2014. Both Sadie and Ellie had good imaginations when it came to drawing on a face. The girls were able to wear their costumes to their Halloween parties in their own classrooms.  Here's SD as "Princess Ariel" the Mermaid right in front of her Pre-K classmates. And here's Ellie as "Mal" from Disney's The Descendants.   How about *that* look!?! On the actual Halloween day, we were lucky to have Noonie join us and go around the neighborhood with all three kids as they trick-or-treated.  (Well...Frankie just kinda stayed in the stroller, ...