St. Nick's Day

The look on Aiden's face coming down the stairs was awesome! I love to see his expressions!

It is even better when you can use daddy's big boots. In hindsight, we should have grabbed daddy's fire boots.

St. Nicks was so special this year because Aiden is finally old enough to be excited about it!

For those who did not grow up with the tradition, I have copied this description from Wikipedia:

In Germany, Nikolaus is usually celebrated on a small scale. Many children put a boot called Nikolaus-Stiefel (Nikolaus boot) outside the front door on the night of December 5 to December 6. St. Nicholas fills the boot with gifts and sweets, and at the same time checks up on the children to see if they were good, polite and helpful the last year. If they were not, they will have a tree branch (Rute) in their boots instead. Sometimes a disguised Nikolaus also visits the children at school or in their homes and asks them if they have been good (sometimes ostensibly checking his golden book for their record), and handing out presents on a per-behavior basis. This has become more lenient in recent decades.

I think Aiden was more excited about the chocolate than anything else in his boot. And, of course, he loved Mitchell's toy more than his own. I guess that is par for the course. Mommy had cookie cutters in her boot, so we spent the rest of the day making sugar cookies. Daddy had some Everclear in his boot - we used it to make a new batch of apple pie moonshine to help him with those rough days!