We had SUCH a wonderful Christmas this year, I can only imagine it will be more and more fun in the coming years as you girls get older! First of all, you ladies are spoiled!
We started out the holiday season with Payton's Christmas Program at school, where Payton did a great job and we all loved her first "official" performance which was scattered with her many times sticking her tounge out at me. I'm assuming this was an act of nervousness, but it was a bit odd. Santa made an appearance and suprised us all by giving Payton a scooter! Boy oh boy did this send me for a loop. See, I thought that Santa had intended to give Payton a scooter at home for Christmas, so this second (actually first) scooter was a new bump in my road.
Since we were headed to Colorado for Christmas Day this year the Florida grandparents got to celebrate early with you girls, and boy oh boy did they. You were showered with lots of gooodies, games, art supplies, and a plethera of warm clothes, which came in quite handy when we arrived in Colorado to two days straight of snow.
In speaking of the trip to Colorado, I will only breifly mention the two HORRID days of travel, and try to focus on the fantastic 8 days in the middle. The travel days were wicked, terrible and aweful, both days including Parker vomiting on a parent. Enough said.
Now on to the 8 days of fun. I was trilled to learn that I have snow babies! We started off the visit by waking up and taking the girls out in snow suits to play with Addie on the sled in the driveway. I had my fears that Parker might be intimidated (for the first time in her life) but she loved the snow. When she did a face plant, she got up, grinned, and started licking the snow off of her face.
The following days included tons of play time with Addie, Grandma and Grandpa. We tried to dedicate as much time as possible to giving the girls time to play together since they only get to see each other a few times a year at most. This is the worst part of living so far apart, the cousins just don't get to have the closeness we had growing up with our cousins closer to us.
Jax was adored, but not quite up to playing yet with the big girls.
When it got late in the evening and Addie and Jax weren't around, the girls loved hanging out with Grandma & Grandpa entertaining them with kid antic.
I was pretty impressed overall, the girls were troopers and were angels for the most part, even though they were up late most every night. We got to see friends, and spent some time relaxing and enjoying family time. It was a full week, and we had so much fun we were exhausted when we got home! Of course Santa had dropped off MORE gifts at our house so when we arrived from the second horrid day of travel the girls perked right up when they found more new toys to check out.
Santa did make an appearance in Colorado as well! You can see our Christmas Eve story in the previous post, but this is about Christmas Day. Christmas morning all the kids woke up together and came down to find that Santa had been there overnight. It was picture perfect! Kids ripping open paper, trying on jewels, playing with 40,000 new toys at once. I loved getting to share this time with Colin & Robynn and their kids, it was awesome.
Another highlight of the trip was that Payton potty trained Addie. Now I'm certain that Robynn and Colin feel they are due some credit here, but this is my post, so I'm giving credit to Payton, with a supporting role going to Parker. See, these three little girls spent HOURS and many stickers in the bathroom during our visit. And, upon our arrival home I learned that Addie now wears big girl panties to school without accident! Kuddo's Payton & Parker, and good job keeping it up Robynn & Colin, it's good of you to keep it going.
