Christmas

We had a lovely Christmas this year, starting with a touching Christmas Eve service and sprinkling of reindeer food. At the service, one of our church's most talented singers sang Oh Holy Night, which gets me every time. Towards the end of the song the curtains on the stage opened to a live nativity scene, which was beautiful. Although Mary looked suspiciously like my friend Natalie from bunco, and Joseph looked about 12, but whatever.On Christmas morning I awakened to 2 very excited children, who were thrilled to see that santa came and left presents. And also ate his fudge and eggnog (thanks for taking one for the team, Brian). Speaking of eggnog, the kids "discovered" the beverage on Christmas Eve, and drank their weight in it the rest of the weekend.

It was a very batman/dora the explorer Christmas, with a little bit of rose petal cottage market place/ice cream shop thrown in. The kids are so much fun, their excitement and wonder make me want to freeze them at the age forever. Santa came to visit at my aunt's house, and the kids were thrilled (so was I since I was a slacker this year and didn't get around to taking them to see him). Despite the fact that santa (cousin Gary) was sporting a women's bath robe, a yellowed beard, an empty sack, and drinking scotch the kids were still convinced. Santa asked Bern were he goes to school, and Bern said "You should know that, Santa"!

Bella received a play make-up kit from her Aunt, and promptly went to town painting her nails. She even yanked off her tights so she could do her toe nails, then convinced cousin Elyse to do the same.

Bernard received a batman costume and wore it for 24 hours straight, even though it had blood stains from his bloody nose. Thank you to cousin Kim for accidentally beating Bernard up. Also, special thanks to cousin Brett for dropping him on his head. On Christmas.

Bella was gifted with a "real life" baby, that sucks a binky, cries, snores, etc. She is such a mommy and takes very good care of her, except when she drops her. She will not be carrying the real baby when he/she arrives in August. We had a busy weekend, but had lots of fun visiting with our relatives and friends. Now it is time for some toy organization and laundry!