Justin is finally done with exams as of Thursday, so now the real fun has begun at the Lee home. We have tons of snow, thanks to an ongoing snowstorm this weekend and are very excited for our Christmas celebrations with our little family. Rachel cannot wait until the big event and every morning, she puts a decoration on our advent calendar and counts the remaining days. Today she spent a good portion of the morning examining her wrapped packages. Ian continues to crawl over to the tree at every opportunity to sink his teeth (or mostly gums) into the presents. Our plan for the Christmas break is simple: movies, games, and lots of delicious food. We'll give you a report on how it's going next week!
All kids love music and Ian is definitely no exception. We have had more music than normal around our home with Christmas performances and new callings (Bridget is now not only the choir pianist, but the Primary pianist as well - yikes!) and Ian always perks right up when we start playing or singing. He loves it when we let him "play" and he'll even babble and look at the music like he's working really hard. It's very adorable!
Stickers are a major past-time of our little girl. Usually she gets them on her "art," but these ones from Nana were a little to much fun to only decorate some paper.
The big celebration to the end of finals was a trip to downtown Minneapolis for the Holidazzle Parade. We definitely lucked out, because this light parade that runs from Thanksgiving to Christmas each year is usually seen in the freezing Minnesota temperatures, but we made it on a night where it was in the 30's! It was much more enjoyable and tons of fun!
We lucked out with great curb-side seats so we were this close to the lighted floats. Rachel got two high-fives from some elves and lots of waves.
Here favorite was Captain Hook on this pirate ship.
Rachel is noticing Ian more and more these days and he loves interacting with her. Whenever he makes sounds, she gets excited because he's "talking" to her. He was a little sad on the way in from church because Justin had to grab extra stuff from the car before taking him out of his car seat. Rachel's solution to the crying? Give the kid something to play with! As you can see, this problem-solver was on the right track. We hope that everyone has a merry Christmas!
2 comments:
Bridget-that what you get for being musical and live outside of Utah ; ) The church is always short of piano players it seems. Although, somehow I managed to get released from choir pianist last sunday WHOO HOO! I think they realized it wasn't working when I was spending most choir practice days playing with Marley on my lap ;)
I love how she put all those toys on Ian - Tori used to do that w/ Evan. She was always our little life saver when Evan would get sad. So cute! Hope you had a fantastic Christmas!
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