Late Christmas post

Maya givivg Brynn her passie

Two shepherds

The angel/Joseph with baby Jesus and shepherd

Maya and her train, which she didn't stop playing with for 3+ hours

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We had our first Christmas at home, and it went well. We have snow! We were so excited to not have a brownish green Christmas this year. We haven't seen snow since we left Utah. It being our first Christmas I had all these neat ideas of traditions we could start; like gingerbread houses, building a snowman, soup and soup bowls, the Christmas story and hot chocolate. One should never have ideas like that when little people in the family are under the age of 5. Well, I can say that Maya and I successfully made cookies, only after Maya dumped out half the called amount of molasses on the cupboard, but that was very minor. We tried to get Moo out to play in the snow, but she said she would rather nap. WHAT??? We put her in her room, and she played and played, then yelled and yelled, we finally went and let her out. I thought that gingerbread houses would be a great family activity, but I had no powdered sugar. There aren't any good grocery stores like Macey's here and all were closed, so I read online that you could make powdered sugar mixing regular sugar and cornstarch in your blender. Well....it didn't quite mix like I needed it to, or I didn't mix it long enough. I went to make the frosting, and it was lumpy sugar is all. Dang it! We did decide to have some wild rice soup in breadbowls and that did turn out great. While we were making dinner Maya decided she wanted a bath. We put her in the tub and soon after she came running in the kitchen naked. I was feeding Brynn in the living room.

This is what I heard:

Maya: "Maya pee!"

Evan: "No, Maya, don't sit in it!"

I then see Evan holding Maya running from the kitchen to the bathroom where Maya had her second bath. Ahh, the fun of a two year old.We then tried the Christmas pageant. I think we have a world record time of 1:35 for the entire pageant. We all had multiple roles. Maya was Mary and a shepherd. I was a shepherd and the photographer. Evan was the angel, Joseph and the narrator. We gave Maya a staff, a walking stick of Evan's and she was twirling it all around the living room. Maya had to go to sleep with her walking stick. She also woke up at midnight, and the three of us put more oranges on the tree since Maya had eaten half of them already.This morning we waited until 10am, yes you read that right, 10am for our little ladies to awake. Evan and I were up at 8:30 so we had our own little Christmas and opened gifts to each other. Maya woke up and saw her train and she didn't stop playing for three hours. She loves it, and I have something to occupy her until we can go outside again, in 6 months.Hope you all had a wonderful day.