Christmastime Fun

 Adrian

I worked on keeping everyone in the house from getting sick because Shay was coughing and started showing signs early this past week. Unfortunately, I think it was inevitable because Claire got sick then Adrian and Chris started getting a little and now I'm just waiting and dreading my turn. Luckily, he is still mostly a happy boy and just seems to be tired more often and needs a little more sleep, but doesn't sleep very long because he gets uncomfortable. He was happy hanging out with Daddy when I was throwing a Christmas Puzzle party on Friday, and he still sleeps well at night for the most part. Hopefully, it doesn't get too much worse before it gets better! I'm starting to think he is just going to skip crawling because he still hasn't gotten it yet and will push himself backward instead of getting up on his knees to go forward. He also practiced standing at the baby table playing music for a while and had good balance all by himself!

Claire

Despite the spreading virus in our house, we had some fun holiday traditions and decorated cookies Sunday morning for when we go caroling around the neighborhood tomorrow. I'm the one decorating the cookies that will be handed out, but I gave the girls their own cookies to decorate, and then all the leftover frosting went towards our gingerbread houses we did after dinner. I keep seeing fun Christmas things at the store when I'm shopping and then buy them...oops! But these window stickers that can be rearranged will work for more than just this year and should give us a few years of fun. 

Shay

Her cookies were very heavy laidened with frosting and I smoothed out the tree so she could add color, but still ended up piled on. She was on a dress-up kick for the weekend and ended up wearing a scrambled princess costume for our movie date. I took them out to see Moana 2 for a girl's date and now Shay asks to see it again even though I've explained it's not available at home yet. No amount of logical explanation will convince her to stop asking...I think she loves skirts and just wishes it was summer again so she could have all the ones back that I've put away for the winter. Anytime she has seen one she puts it on. It does seem like time is moving fast and it is already almost Christmas! I hope I'm ready...