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Today we put on Violet’s Beauty and the Beast Blu-ray for her to watch. It was so cute to watch as she curled up on her new chair to watch the movie. Our baby girl is growing up to fast. In just 23 days she’ll be 2… where does the time go?
Today was a day of relaxing around the house, with a bit of work thrown in. We’re finding homes for some of the new things that have come in and trying to decide how we want our living room to look. It’s been the mostly the same since we moved in 2 years ago and it’s time for a change. Keeping with the theme started yesterday of show just a glimpse of our new living room at a time, todays picture is of Jacob and Violet’s new chairs. Stay tuned in the coming days to see the rest of our changes.
Christmas morning, and Jacob’s face as he comes down the stairs says it all. It was a long but great day and I want to thank all the family that we got to share this day with.
After a night of family fun at Melissa’s dad’s we came home and did our Christmas tradition, kids opened 2 presents (PJs and a Book).Put the milk and cookies out for Santa, plus carrots for the reindeer. Read the Night Before Christmas before tucking our little ones in for the night. It was a great way to spend Christmas eve. Of course once the kids were in bed Santa came and put out all the gifts.
Today our little artist completed his first commissioned work. You see on our fridge we have a little frame for displaying kids artwork. Jacob didn’t have anything small enough so it just had the sheet of paper that came with it that said ‘A Place for my artwork’. Well Jacob was reading that while I was washing up some dishes and I thought if we pulled out that paper he could draw something that we could display. As you can see in our picture that he really enjoyed it. Unfortunately the first paper that was in the frame was glossy and his drawing didn’t really stand out on it. So he did a second piece.
Tonight I took the time to be Santa’s helper. Well not really Santa as the Kitchen is a gift from my mom., So I spend the evening going through the box and putting it all together.
Today we hosted a small Christmas Dinner with Protoulis family. We had a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. It was a great to have the four kids running around the place, though at times they could get a little loud. Its evenings like this with family that will make for great traditions we can share with our kids in the years to come.
Today Jacob and Violet decorated the tree, well Jacob put on the ornaments and Violet took them off. Of course they needed a little help with the higher ornaments.
Tonight was Jacob’s first ever Christmas Concert at school. I was really impressed with how well the whole class preformed. Only problem is that right at the beginning of the performance one of Jacob’s classmates stood in front of him blocking him from my cameras for most of the show. I should have got up and tried to get a better angle, but I didn’t want to miss it and taking 2 videos and stills was a little tricky. It was a fun evening even after watching all the other grades in his school perform.
Today Jacob had a visit to the allergists, the doctors wanted to see if his asthma was caused by an allergy. I’m glad to say that the tests came back negative, so even though both his parents and little sister have allergies of varying severity, Jacob has none. I’m not sure what that means for his asthma but at least we know he’ll be saved from the annoyance of seasonal allergies.