Christmas in downtown

Christmas in downtown began awhile ago. Here we are at one of the boys' favorite downtown spots- the skybridge between two buildings. The windows are decked out with holiday stickers and the boys peer down at the cars and people who now appear green. Chloe darts back and forth to see out both sides of the skybridge windows. I try to keep her in check, as people are walking all around her. After the skybridge, we go into Nordstrom to see the fish tanks and Chloe also likes to look at all the shoes. Last night we went downtown too and Chloe kept wanting to go into all these stores- she's the complete opposite of the boys at this age. The second we'd try to set one foot into a store, they would scream. Chloe dragged me into a jewelry store, a hip clothing store and of course, the channel 9 (PBS) store, where she did not want to leave the shelf full of stuffed Elmos. The boys were thrilled to see the "snow". This one indoor mall has a nightly "snow" fall, where they blow foam soap pieces down from the fourth floor into the atrium; it looks like snow. Kari