We stayed home for Christmas this year. Jeremy had to work so that's why we went to Florida at Thanksgiving. Instead, my parents came up here for the holidays. We all went to church at Home Moravian Church for the Lovefeast on Christmas Eve.
We were also going to go to the 11 o'clock service at Augsburg Lutheran but do you see that trampoline on the side of the picture? We had to put it together 3 times to get it right. The instructions were terrible! And by the time we got it done it was almost 11 and we all just wanted to have an alcoholic beverage.
The girls had on their matching Christmas pjs. By morning Hadlee's little legs were freezing though. It was so nice that Hadlee could sit up the whole morning and watch what was going on.
When Maddox would open clothes she'd hold them up to herself and show them off.
Jessi was very happy with her bones for Christmas. She knew they were there and I had to hide them way back under other presents. As soon as they were in sight again she tried to get at them so I opened one for her and she spent the rest of the morning in the corner chewing on one. Actually, less than two weeks later, they're both gone now.
Present opening time is done, now it's time to check some of them out!
Christmas afternoon it started snowing and snowed all the next day. At our house we got about 5-6 inches. We bundled up the kids in their snowsuits and went out on Christmas night to sled down our neighbor's driveway, build a snowman and have a snowball fight. Maddox still doesn't like sledding or being pulled in the sled.
Christmas wore Papa out. The next morning Maddox cuddled up to watch some cartoons while Papa napped.
The snowman we built on Christmas Eve fell down within a couple of hours. I think it may have had some help from some kids out walking that night. So a few days later Maddox and I went out and built more snowmen. Well, one of us did while the other played with her neighbors. But they immediately became "her" snowmen. She said they were her Daddy and herself.
Along came New Year's Eve when we stayed home, had dinner, played Dance Dance Revolution, and the two young folk tried to learn to play bridge and the two old folk tried to learn to play Texas Hold 'Em. Neither group was very successful.
At dinner when we opened our crackers (because we forgot to open them at Christmas dinner) I popped Maddox' and gave it back to her telling her to get her hat out and put it on. She could not figure out where this hat was and said, "Like this Mommy?" with a confused look on her face.
I dug it out of the tube for her and NOW she's got it right! "cheese!"
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