Alright people... I'm a bit behind, and my excuse is pure laziness... so let's get caught up!
I really wanted to somehow ingrain in Harper (and Sawyer) from a young age, the real reason for the season, but at the same time, let her experience the magicalness (its a word) and wonderfulness and givingness (also a word) of Santa. So I thought hey, I'll do an advent kind of calendar, and every other day, we will read part of the Nativity story out of her children's bible and then on the other days do something else Christmasy... hahaha... I'm so funny, it got stuck on day 22, so I did really good for those 3 days.
Luckily, Harper did go to toddler bible study and we did try to do some Nativity reading, also we made a birthday cake for Jesus, and Harper and Lincoln blew out the candles Christmas night as we sang "Happy Birthday" which was cute, and pictures of this would have been special... but I did a serious photo fail this Christmas, I don't know what happened. Also I think Harper was a little scared of Santa, we went to see him but neither girl would go near him, we did leave out cookies, which Santa ate, and 2 carrots for his "reindeer", which they enjoyed eating, hopefully they won't catch on that Santa only has 2 reindeer, kinda like we have 2 dogs.
Our Christmas was pretty low key, which was nice, for the first time we stayed home and woke up with just the girls and opened gifts, then later that afternoon we went to my brother's and had Christmas with them and the Baker's. Really though, as seeing how special Christmas is through our girls' eyes is, we are glad the holidays are over because Ryan worked 6 days a week and we never saw him.
And if you are wondering what crazy shenanigans we got into on New Year's Eve... Ryan worked, and I let the girls stay up until 9:30 (because Whitney came over and we were working on some small group stuff and I just didn't get around to putting them in bed) and then I was in bed by 10:15.... WooooHOOO! We live the crazy life.
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| Kennedy and Harper made a gingerbread house the weekend before Christmas, Harper discovered a love of marshmallows, and a sugar high happened |
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| She kept forgetting that you can blow to make a noise and she'd put her mouth on it and squeak |
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| The adults playing with Lincolns toy |
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| Harper got a doctor set, Tet-Tet needed a check-up |
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| Sawyer thought her new Owl from Aunt Heather was delicious |
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| Harper reading the directions while helping me put together their new table |
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| "I don't need to read the stinkin directions! I got this!" |
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| The finished table and the kitchen Santa brought |
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