A Visit from Sinterklaas

On December 5th it's a Dutch tradition to leave your shoes out (possibly wooden shoes) for Sinterklaas to leave a present in.  We made a little Dutch soup for dinner and left our shoes out before going to bed.  It happened to be very cold that night and I was worried about any Sinterklaas treats freezing, but somehow they turned out ok.  We are not Dutch by the way.  :)  Here is Anna retrieving her cold shoes.  All those cords are for our Christmas lights which Matthew and Scott have valiantly been perfecting over the past few days.

 Matthew was excited about his shoes.

Grant didn't leave his shoes out, but he didn't seem to mind too much.  He found a jingle bell necklace to placate him while the kids examined they're goodies.