First Tree Lighting

Last week was our crazy Christmas week. On Tuesday, we had Christmas Around the World, Wednesday was the Camp Zama Tree Lighting and Holiday Concert, and Thursday was the SHA Tree Lighting. Three late nights in a row for Adam - he loved it! Here he is "listening" to The Night Before Christmas. Instead of listening, he spent his time hanging out with a 1 year old and kissing on her. My little Casanova. In his defense, she is super cute!

Lottie hung out with Dad instead.

Waiting for the tree to be lit. Adam loves the blue lights on the Santa tree. We've explained that it's a Christmas tree, but Adam keeps telling us that we are wrong.

Three steps away from Santa...

Adam is sure that Santa is super scary.

When Santa (that's a real beard!) held out a candy cane, Adam sprinted to get it, then ran away, screaming "Thank you!" He did calm down enough to take ONE half decent picture with Santa.

Lottie thought Santa was interesting for about 30 seconds, but then he moved and she also started crying. 0 for 2.

Japanese Hip Hop

There's a Japanese kids' hip hop dance group that performs at ALL of Camp Zama's events.  Any excuse to perform, right?  They are actually pretty good.  Adam loves watching them.  They even put together a Christmas routine for us.  Hee.

Christmas Around the World

Christmas Around the World is the big FREE celebration here at Zama. The big draw is the free food. The bigger draw is the huge amount of raffle prizes that they give away. This year, they had Wiis, DS's, ride-on trains, and the giant ride-on dinosaur that Adam is running away from ("Scary!"). Plus lots of other smaller stuff (giant stockings, electronic picture frames). Of which we won nothing!

We did enjoy all the free food. This year, they had vendors giving away gyros, pizza, and samosas, as well as community groups giving away all kinds of goodies. All the kids were sticky from the candy apples.

Adam had a blast running around with one of his buddies, and riding the trains that they had set up (the same ones they raffled off later). They also had performances - video to come.

Disco Christmas

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Country Holiday

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Christmas in Ebina

Although the Japanese don't really celebrate Christmas, they love to decorate! Ebina is a big shopping area we like to visit.

Santa Tree

Adam is calling our Christmas tree a Santa tree. Priorities, right? Here we are, picking out our tree from the selection of about twenty dry trees in front of the PX. They were all wrapped up, so we just picked and crossed our fingers. It turned out well - it's up, just not decorated yet!

New Pigtails

After a few days of hair resting, we tried pigtails again. They stayed in all day, and she didn't touch them at all. Amazing. I'm sure it won't last.

Counter Kids

Chris put Lottie on the counter, so Adam insisted on it too, although he doesn't fit under the shelves. Best play spot ever!

Daddy

Lottie is finally becoming a Daddy's girl. Which is good, because hanging out with Dad is the only way I can get away from her, since she's developed a crippling case of separation anxiety.