Christmas Eve was a nice relaxing day. We started by decorating our first gingerbread house. I bought a kit with all the piece parts already made – much, much easier that way…B had a great time, and we all think it turned out pretty good!
All ready for Christmas!
Christmas morning we had our traditional orange rolls and attacked our stockings from Santa. I am not quite sure what happened, but I have no pictures from that…could be because M has become quite grabby and inquisitive…
After breakfast, we handed out and opened presents. B and Daddy ready to hand out presents:
B handing out presents:
M’s loot:
B’s loot:
B helping M open a present:
We had a wonderful time opening and enjoying our presents!
Despite croup, pneumonia, an ear infection, and a couple of colds, we have managed to have quite a bit of fun so far this month. We started with some Christmas lights at a local farm (before everyone got sick). M absolutely LOVED the lights. She danced, and laughed, and clapped the whole time. And B even rode a pony for the very first time. She thought it was great!
We also have had fun decorating the house. We put up B’s Christmas tree first:
And M really likes all the dancing/singing toys.
B being a “Santa princess”:
Of course, we visited Santa (another indication that M may be more outgoing than B…B would have never let us put her on a stranger’s lap, and even now, she didn’t want to sit on his lap).
We saw Disney on Ice, much to the delight of our princess (here with her princess Minnie ears – a gift from her buddy Hawke).
We even opened some pre-Christmas presents! Warm jammies for the girls:
And new shirts:
And all of our stockings (M’s was expected, mine was a surprise!):
YAY!!
I know I haven’t posted much. I know I missed M’s 10 month birthday. But it has been a rough few weeks. I got a stomach bug a couple of days before M’s 10 month birthday, so I’m sure you can appreciate why it might have slipped my mind. But, here she is a couple of days before that auspicious day.
Shortly after M turned 9 months, she started saying “hi” (hear it in your head like “hiiiiiiiiii” with a long southern drawl). She pretty much would (and still does) say hi (complete with wave) to anyone who came near you. We concede that you say da-da and hi, while your teacher also swears she has heard you say thank you and gator. We continued with our food experiments – she tried with no ill effects chia seeds, green beans, mangoes, quinoa, prunes, and coconut milk. She is still completely and totally NOT interested in any kind of finger food. She typically takes a short snooze in the AM, and takes a 2-3 hour nap in the afternoon when home. When at school, well, let’s just say you are following in B’s footsteps. She is becoming more mobile – when she really wants something, she will do some combination of rolling and scooching (mostly backwards) to get from point A to point B. In one month, her four front top teeth came in – wow! She handled it like a champ!
