Photo with Santa, take two! 

 Callum, Grandma and Mummy rode the North Pole Express to go see Santa. Mummy sat backwards to try and take photos and video of everyone, but I'd forgotten how fast the train goes and I quickly got a teensy bit nauseous and gave up taking pictures. 

 Grandma and Grandpa set up the Wendy House for Callum! Aunt Gillian and Mummy used to play in it, and so did Nathan when he was younger. Callum loves waving at people through the windows, and will make you stand in his sight-line so that you can be waved at.

 Does no one else think he's starting to look like a McGough?

When Mummy was at her first-ever craft show yesterday, Callum went to see Santa again, this time with Grandpa and Grandma! Santa and Callum waved at one another but didn't have a full visit. Callum is excited to go back again to talk about the toys he'd like for Christmas :-)

Like so many other things, I don't know how it started - but here's Callum wearing his socks on his hands.

 He ran in circles for ages with his sock-mittens

 Waving and snuggling with Grandpa

Discussing what a good boy Callum is

OK, Mummy's a little useless with scanning in photos so it's a little dark and a teensy bit crooked, but here's our family shot with Santa. We hadn't planned on everyone being in the photo, but Callum didn't want to sit alone and somehow this is what we decided on. 

We'll go back for another visit and see if Callum will sit with Santa by himself, now that they've met once before :-)

  

Grandpa's tree has a continuous supply of oak leaves to play in

 Callum was really swinging from the rope yesterday! He was taking a running start and lifting up his feet to swing like a big boy

Hiding under the bed

 Grandma and Grandpa bought Callum a pinwheel and it was a perfect, windy day for testing it out at the beach

 Looking for sticks and stones to throw into the Lake

 Where's Callum?

 Stacking coffee creamers over breakfast

Callum dragged five chairs together to make an obstacle course for himself and Elmo to crawl along, back and forth.

Bundled up for playing on the beach. Callum kept doing a dramatic fall and flopping around in the sand. He is a bit of a ham.

Happy to be reunited with Daddy

Getting pulled around by his feet

The cottage we're staying at has a secret pull-down ladder leading to a loft. It's a big hit with our climber. There's also bunk beds with a ladder, and when Daddy wasn't paying attention for two seconds, guess who scooted up to the top bunk?

Callum and I have been trying to keep busy without Daddy here. We went to the pumpkin adventure farm again this morning for wagon rides and apple cider, and discovered a rabbit hutch we hadn't noticed before.

 

 

 This afternoon we roped Grandma and Grandpa into coming to Port Colbourne with us for a walkabout. As luck would have it, the lift bridge was going up just as we pulled into downtown, so we didn't even have to wait to see a nice big ship go through.

 

 

Big excitement watching the bridge come down

 

 

 Grandpa couldn't leave town without stopping at The Pink for lunch. Callum ate a ton of rice and crispy noodles, and made Grandma sing the alphabet into his ear about ten times in a row.