santa baby

We reached a milestone in the Miller house, our first time waiting in a long parent/kid line, and our first time to have Jude's official Santa photograph. you may recall he met the big guy on the streets of Forest Park recently. But this time Kara pulled out the fancy candy cane Christmas outfit and paid for the photo op.

thanks Brookfield Zoo!

The picture comes from Holiday Magic at the Brookfield zoo. It is an impressive display of lights, laser light shows (so we hear, we missed it), animals and caroling. We bundled jude in the bugaboo and spent several hours strollering and walking.

The other highlight was watching jude take his first steps in the snow. He was tentative and then kept stamping his feet. Kara thinks he enjoyed hearing the crunching sound his feet were making.