Merry Christmas

Alyssa was so much fun this Christmas. She was so happy to play with everything and just in a great mood about all the festivities. There were plenty of toys strewn about the room and she is very mobile these days, so she was all over that. On Christmas Eve she learned how to pull herself up in her crib...she hasn't learned how to get down yet so naptime is a little more difficult. The timing of that was great though because Santa brought her a activity table which she loves to play at, until she falls! She has been such a good natured little girl, but I'm worried that her patience with me is leaving now that she can motor around. She is often found crawling after me when I leave a room-and she's not happy about it! On Tuesday her first tooth poked through and now her second one is on its way!

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Spencer is such a great little guy, full of energy and imagination! His dad introduced him to the wonderful world of He-man and the boy is in LOVE! He finds anything long and straight and pretends it is a sword and gets so excited when he watches He-man pull out is sword and says the words right along with He-man. "By the power of grayskull, I am He-Man" He refers to himself as He-man more often than Spencer. Alyssa gave Spencer and Hailee swords for Christmas and that was far and away the favorite toy. He has also been practicing his singing and loves to sing "Santa Claus is coming to town" he practiced during preschool with Hailee's class and has gotten quite good for an almost 2 year old. Another favorite of Spencer's is meat. He always asks for that when it is time for dinner, Heath made salami for our Christmas Eve dinner and Spencer loves to eat it-and boy can he pack it in!
He's not afraid to play princesses with Hailee either and loves the princess flip flops that Santa gave Hailee. Luckily Santa gave her three pairs because Spencer has claimed the Cinderella ones as his own (notice the picture of him in bed with his sword and princess slippers-that was Christmas night)


Hailee was so excited about Christmas and could hardly stand it when I made her wait to go see her presents. She wanted to get Spencer and get out there. She loved unwrapping presents, which turned out great for her because Alyssa needed help and Spencer was more interested in playing with the toys he already had unwrapped so she got to do lots of opening! She really made the whole of Christmas fun and exciting for everyone, with all her counting down and constantly asking if it was Christmas yet. Hailee is also very into He-man, only she is She-ra. (notice she slept with her sword and slippers too! -not staged, I promise)

We had a great Christmas this year. It was our first one at home with just our family and we had lots of fun. Heath had Christmas eve off so we spent the day playing with the kids and tracking Santas latest delivery online. For dinner we kept his families tradition of different meats, cheeses and breads along with chips, wassail, hot chocolate, cheeseballs and crackers and plenty of other treats. We went to the Oak City Town Hall for their Christmas celebration and saw Santa one last time before he stopped by our house. Back at home Hailee and Spencer were both very excited to dress up as Mary and Joseph, Alyssa did pretty well as baby Jesus too. I am so proud of Hailee and how well she has learned the Christmas story. She loves to hear it told and asks about each part ..."is this when they are traveling?" "Where is the angel?" etc. I hope everyone's Christmas was as good as ours was! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!