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Santa Clause Came to Blakely!!

Santa Was Here!!

We had an amazing weekend!! I just had to write & tell you all about it!! On Saturday we took Wind-Borne out & set sail (er..motor) for Friday Harbor. It was a drizzly gray afternoon & there was no wind, so we had a nice, uneventful, & freezing motor over without our dodger, so Ben at the helm was totally out in the elements. I got a seriously wind burnt face from the cold & Ben's hands were frozen solid when we reached Friday Harbor, but by the time we arrived it was sunny & beautiful!!! We warmed up quickly & set off into town with John & Laurie who motored across in their boat the Laurie Ann with us. (They have a pilot house that made us seriously jealous & arrived warm & comfy) We all bought Christmas lights in town and decorated our boats with them. Ben pulled lights up our mast, and I put them all around the lifelines, so Wind-Borne looks awesome at night!! We have green lights & Laurie Ann has red ones. We look pretty cool moored next to each other in Blakely Marina.

After an awesome night out on the town we set sail..or motor... again Sunday morning and got back to Blakely in plenty of time for a quick nap for Ben & Henry & a shower for me, then we got down to the marina for Santa's boat!!!!

Santa sailed in on a HUGE whale watching boat blaring "Santa Clause is coming to Town" with Santa & Mrs. Clause out on the bow waving & yelling HO HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Henry was the only child on island at this point, so he got all Santa's attention!! We stood with Santa & Mrs. Clause on the dock while all the 30 or so other member's of Santa's team got off the boat. There were elves, Pirates, clowns, and old fashioned carolers!!! Each one said hello to Henry and a pirate gave him his balloon sword! The carolers sang and the clowns started making balloon animals, swords, and other things.

Blakely Island made food potluck style for Santa's ship, so after they were all done eating Santa sat down & everyone including all the adults & the two other children that showed up sat on Santa's lap and got presents!! Santa & Mrs. Clause were so patient and sweet. They saw Henry several times and even got him to laugh more than once. They weren't the usual mall Santa crowd. They really cared about making the kids & everyone for that matter feel special. Clowns were making things & Pirates were sword fighting the kids with Balloon swords. An elf was handing out beautiful hand knit hats, and Henry got a super adorable hand carved wooden horse toy with wheels. A super nice man gave Henry a stuffed Parrot!! He Loves it!! He loves all his new toys actually!!

We were so impressed with the generosity and kindness of everyone on board the Santa boat! The toys and gifts Henry received were so special, because the majority of them were handmade! Someone spent a lot of time and effort making these toys for children they don't know just to see them smile. It's really sweet. We plan on making this a Christmas tradition every year!! The Lions club of Bellingham put this whole thing together & I hope they know how much we all really appreciate it!! Henry got up this morning and insisted we all put our Santa hats on & go see the Santa Boat!! It was really hard to explain to him that Santa only comes once a year & we couldn't see Santa again today. He got pretty upset. He really wants Santa Boat to come back!!

I hung the singing puppy stocking Henry got by the fire and tucked all his new gifts inside to re-open on Christmas. There is a generous amount of taffy & snacks in the bottom with a stuffed dog, parrot, wooden horse, new knit hat, and fun beaded necklaces on top!!

Thank you again to the wonderful people over at the Lions club who brought Santa and his friends over to our little island!!

Happy Holidays From Team Davidson!!!

Happy Holidays Everyone!!

Where to start?!It has been so long, I don’t know who is caught up on what, so here is a quick(ish) update and some fun pictures to show what’s been going on in the Davidson household recently.
Henry is awesome!! He is getting bigger & bigger! He is 2’ 11” and 34LBS! He is turning 2 on December 20th!! Can you believe it? 2!!! He is a smart little man & is seemingly fearless & never sitting still. He still crawls in his sleep…. He seriously never sits still. He just seems to have too much to accomplish, which as you can probably guess means he still doesn’t sleep! He has only slept through the night a handful of times & it takes hours to get him to bed. He just wants to play & explore all the time. Can you really blame him though? J
He is learning new words every day & is starting to make “sentences” For example if he wants to go next door at Blakely & see grandma he will say “ Henry Grandma up doggie” , because Grandma lives upstairs with her dog… It’s very cute! I understand at least 90 percent of what he says, but it takes a little decoding sometimes, so I translate for him a lot for other people. He is potty training very well and learning quickly. I’d say he makes it 50 percent of the time.
We are living between two houses at the moment. We are on Blakely Island at Doug & Janet’s cabin while Ben finishes building his parent’s house next door. We also have a house rented in Ellensburg where we have all our stuff and Ben has work in the area. We drive back & forth quite a bit, which can be wearing, but we like both places. Oh, and we hope to have the parent’s house done before Christmas…but we will see. It’s so close, but there are so many little loose ends to tie up.
Our latest big news is that we finally have Wind-Borne here at Blakely in the marina!!! We had her shipped from North Carolina to Anacortes nearly a month ago now, but just got her here to the island about a week ago. We are taking our first overnight North West cruise in her this coming Saturday & are really excited!!We are taking Henry to see the lighted boat parade at Friday Harbor. John & Laurie will be joining us on their boat the Laurie Ann! Henry likes being on board, although he did object when I told him that the aft cabin is his new room. I think he thought it was going to take the place of his current room, which he loves.
We are also thrilled to announce that Santa is coming to Blakely Island this Sunday!! Henry is the only child on the island, so he will have Santa all to himself, although he doesn’t quite know what that means. He is excited to see Santa & knows who he is, but has no idea what he actually does. Santa will arrive at the dock on a big boat mid day with a ship full of elves & presents! He gets to sit on Santa’s lap & get gifts & take pictures! How awesome is that?
As for Ben & myself, there is nothing much new to tell. We are both well & happy…although we both wish we could have more sleep in our lives! That’s our Christmas wish, sleep!
I finally convinced Ben to take me to the Nutcracker in Seattle on the 17th!! It only took 6 years to convince him to do it. I absolutely love the nutcracker & PNB does a really fantastic one! My mom will be watching the little man while we are out since it’s not really a baby appropriate event, so we actually have an evening out to ourselves! Yay! We rarely go out without Henry, but I don’t think he will mind since he will be having plenty of fun wearing grandma out. If I’m super lucky Ben will take us out before hand to our favorite restaurant the Metropolitan Grill. Best steaks ever!! I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
Hope that answers some of your questions!
!!!Happy Holidays Everyone!!!