Merry Christmas! We didn't exactly have a white Christmas in Kansas City this year, as most of Thursday's snow already melted, but it was a lovely, crisp winter day. We joined Dave's mom for 4 p.m. Mass yesterday, then went back to their house for Christmas Eve dinner and presents. Dave, Ben, Elizabeth and I celebrated Christmas morning at home, then went back to Herb's & Jerry's in the early afternoon for what we had to keep reminding Ben was a combination of lunch + dinner (he gets confused when meals are not in his standard 3x + afternoon snack structure!) and enjoyed time with Herb, Jerry, Jeff, Grandma Anne, Uncle Kenny & Aunt Lynn.
Here is a quick photo dump from our last few weeks. My grandma is at my parents' house until tomorrow so I wanted to make sure she saw some extra pictures of what we've been up to lately!
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| Ben enthusiastically shaking his jingle bells & "rapping" the chorus of "Jingle Bells" at his daycare holiday program (As a 3 yr old, "rapping" apparently= "yelling") |
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| Talking to Santa at the daycare program |
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Kids being goofy & making each other laugh before bedtime. E thought it was really cool to get to sit on the big bed for a few minutes!
The next set is from the traditional cookie baking a few weeks ago. |
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| Elizabeth's first (highly supervised) sprinkling foray |
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| Elizabeth got to test a little bit of a cookie. She loved it. Ben wanted to help finish the rest. |
When Ben got tired of helping with the cookies, he watched Opa light the menorah for the eighth day of Hanukkah and they played dreidel. Ben is getting very competitive at dreidel and gets very excited when he spins "gimel," which gets him all the gelt on the table!
Christmas Eve & Christmas Day photos:
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| Santa brought him a Royals shirt. |
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| "Ben's shoe! Just what I wanted!" |
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| Santa's helpers |
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| Exhausted, belligerent Ben on Christmas Eve. Mad that Santa got a peanut blossom and he didn't, but also just tired from not taking a nap and being up past bedtime. |
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| New Royals shirts |
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| Dave pretending he is surprised and that Ben did not blab about me wrapping up this gift from Tony & Jen the moment that Dave got home yesterday! |
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| Book title: What's Going On In Here? (0-5 year-old brain development!) |
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| Listening to Papa's recording of the Charlie Brown storybook from Great-Grandma. |
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| Hobby horse from Great-grandma Anne |
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| Insisted on taste-testing most presents, whether or not they were hers. |
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| Links also make a nice crown. |
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Looks like you had a great Christmas! Happy holidays to your sweet family!
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