We have had an absolutely wonderful Christmas! The kids are such great ages for Christmas this year. Nicholas is old enough to really understand and anticipate but still young enough to be excited and swept up in the magic. Elizabeth had no anticipation but was thrilled as it unfolded. I was actually very proud of Nicholas for his attitude throughout the day, excited and grateful for everything he got even though it wasn't what he asked for and weren't big or dramatic presents.
For example this was the reaction for Spirograph:
Christmas Eve we went to church and the kids looked adorable in their finery.
They were even pretty good through most of church. About an hour in (which was about an hour and a half after we got there) Elizabeth started to go a little stir crazy and so I took her in the back to let her walk for 10 minutes and of course Nicholas had to come too because he couldn't be left out. But other than that they did a good job. Nicholas got really into the singing and sang loudly to almost every song. He has figured out how to read not the notes of the music but the words for the various verses and most of the tunes were familiar so he was able to follow along.
We had made a bunch of cookies that day (although not yet frosted the sugar cookies) so we put out some for Santa. Nicholas tried to explain to Lizzie why she couldn't eat them. She was unconvinced.
Christmas Day Nicholas got up at 6:15 and we did the 3 of our stockings then because it seemed cruel to make him wait for Elizabeth to wake up, we weren't going to wake her, and she was too young to understand and be upset that we'd started without her. Then when Elizabeth woke up she did her stocking and we had breakfast (Joe made french toast) before doing the presents among the 4 of us. We then opened presents from other relatives while talking to them on Skype.
We also took advantage of the warm weather to spend some time at a playground burning off some energy.
Nicholas then made Grinch fruit kabobs based on ones his Aunt Shayna showed him the week before over Skype and had Joe's cousin Sarah and her boyfriend over for dinner.
It was a wonderful day!
And Christmas just kept going because the next day felt like Christmas again. My parents came up and we opened more presents, played outside, finally finished decorating sugar cookies, and played a bunch of Pictionary.
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