1) Christmas Eve at Mimi and Pop's
2) Christmas afternoon at Mammy and Pop's
3) the 27th at Cara's with Cara and Kimberly.
It's no wonder she thinks there are always presents to open! We had a fun-filled Christmas week with Daddy off of work (after working from 5 a.m. to early afternoon on the Saturday before).
I love the faces she was making when rolling out the dough! It was a little tough to roll out, and I exaggerated how hard it was. She picked right up on the faces Mommy was making!
Saturday night we FINALLY made it to the Lights at Riverbanks Zoo. We thought Little Miss would love it since she's been all about the Christmas lights this year, but she was SO mad that she couldn't see the gorillas, kangaroos, and penguins that she barely paid any attention to the lights! She did enjoy a ride on the carousel though! She also really enjoyed the barn for a change. She wanted to touch the goats, who were too far away to reach, tried to feed the calf, who wasn't interested, and got to pet a pony!
Christmas Eve was ... interesting. We had a good morning, making cookie dough and visiting Pop Pop.
The afternoon was a whole other story. She REFUSED to nap. She stayed in her crib for an hour and a half and fussed for at least half of that time. She told me she wanted "my presents" when I would go in and try to convince her to take a nap. We finally gave up and got her dressed for the afternoon Christmas Eve service at my mom's church. I wasn't sure how I felt about light pink and blue for the nativity dress after I got it in the mail, but it turned out to be an ADORABLE outfit when paired with light pink shoes and pink bows on pigtails!
I had a bag full of quiet activities - magnetic paper dolls and a color wonderful Mickey Mouse set (the markers that only mark on the right paper). But Little Miss S was not interested in quiet. She played with the candle - off, on, off, on, clapped with the music (that was good), answered YEA when the minister asked if anyone was following his joke, and then proceeded to use the back of the pew in front of us as a handle for the floor trampoline. Stephen took her out, brought her back in, we went to the cry room (where we may have traumatized a couple with a little baby), and then finally we gave in and let her run up and down the hallway behind the sanctuary. She would stop for just a moment in front of the nativity set to say "Look the shepherds" before running off again.
Side story because I'll forget to write it down somewhere else: Little Miss playing with her nativity set and quickly understood the concept of "Baby Jesus". Then she started saying "Baby Jesus born." Then it became "Baby Jesus born in a barn." We'd ask, "Where was Baby Jesus born" "In a barn," was her answer! Technically correct, but it was so funny to hear her say it. It makes it sound like he never closed any doors!
Back to the church service: we did make it back in for Communion, the candle-"lighting", and "Silent Night". She was relatively well behaved after that, but boy was the first part of the service nerve-wracking!
We went back to Mimi and Pop's for dinner and presents. Little Miss was well behaved and actually ate quite a bit of dinner - including Mimi's salad - and dessert - 2 whole scoops of ice cream. The ice cream may have been a bad idea because she bounced off the walls while opening presents!
Mimi went all out for art supplies (Little Miss's favorite part was the safety scissors) and for outdoor play equipment. The swing hasn't arrived yet, but she now has a trampoline (still in the box), a basketball goal, AND a slide!
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