Celebrating Christmas and going to Shrek the Halls, Gaylord's Ice Experience, were by far my highlights of the month!! I'll post some pictures of Shrek the Halls!
We are in Shrek's Outhouse (all made of ice)
It was 9 degrees in this room and Shiloh asked to touch the ice. This is her reaction :)
For Christmas this year, we spent Christmas Eve with my mom's side of the family, Christmas morning with the 5 of us (I still love saying that!!!) and Christmas Day with Marc's family. All three celebrations were great fun; although, I cannot leave out the most unexpected part of Christmas this year, which was Shiloh's attitude Christmas morning.
Leading up to Christmas Day, I had been teaching Shiloh the real Christmas story and using a nativity scene to do it. I was excited about this because I thought it would make it extra special on Christmas morning when we read the story from the bible. Marc and I have decided that our family tradition will be to read the actual story from Luke and then exchange gifts. SO...
Christmas morning arrives and I was excited for Marc to read the story while Shiloh and I acted it out with our little nativity pieces. Unfortunately, Shiloh did NOT like that plan. She had been up way to late Christmas Eve and was in a horrible mood on Christmas morning. She did NOT want to listen to the story and was throwing a fit every time Marc tried to read it. In retrospect, it's actually rather comical, but at the time we had no idea what to do. Do you put your kid in timeout and potentially make her hate reading the bible out loud??? OR do you not read the story?? or what!!! That was what we were feeling...
3 timeouts later we completed the story and then exchanged gifts. Shiloh was excited to receive the tee ball and the bat from us. It definitely took much longer to get to exchanging gifts than we expected. We then went over to Marc’s parents’ house and read the story of Jesus’ birth from a children’s book with a different nativity and Shiloh loved it… at least she enjoyed one of them.
Although gifts are a wonderful part of Christmas, our goal is to make sure that our children know the reason we exchange gifts is to celebrate the ultimate gift we have been given, Jesus Christ. Exchanging gifts to us is symbolic of that and I pray that we can instill that idea into our children’s Christmas celebration memories!!
Here are some pictures from December and from Christmas:
Decorating the Christmas Tree
Sweet sisters sleeping (McKinley on the left and McKenzie on the right)
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3 months old! McKenzie on the left and McKinley on the right
Play date at the Galleria's indoor play park
Our play date friends; Melissa and Andrew and Abby (little baby in her belly) and Levi
McKinley smiles
McKenzie
McKenzie smiles
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McKenzie on the left and McKinley on the right
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Shiloh Christmas morning... all that she wanted to do was dress up and play with her new zoo. She did NOT want to listen to a story or play with her nativity. :)
Doing the Christmas Story with Oma
Fun Family Pic
Playing baseball with Uncle Mike
Pops holding McKinley and Panda holding McKenzie
Princess Shiloh showing off her dress and ring
tea party
McKinley & McKenzie
This is the first time the girls smiled at each other :)
Shiloh hadn't really shown any signs of being jealous of M&M until December. She wanted me to wear her in the baby carrier and...
she wanted to take a bath in the sink like the babies
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Shiloh (26 months)-
- her vocabulary is growing exponentially
- she can hold a conversation on one topic
- she can jump off of things and climb really well
- she can bargain and be bribed :)
McKenzie & McKinley
- they can interact together
- they can smile and giggle
- they are starting to be more scheduled and appear to be moving to 3 naps a day
- they sleep 12 hours consistently at night
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