Our Kids

We survived the holidays:) I wonder when we enjoyed the holidays starts happening again, lol! With kids it seems like things get so busy and throw in a birthday or two and yipes! The girls anticipation for their birthday, Christmas Eve with the Haslups, Christmas day with the Slocums and then Christmas Day II with that Haslups was almost too much for Piper’s brain to grapple with. The poor thing went from meltdown to meltdown. Not that they did not enjoy every single minute of every single event and that they would not (nor would we) change a thing but it is a bit heartbreaking to see them struggle with being overwhelmed.

I am thinking next year we may celebrate their birthday early and then have a quiet family night on their actual birthday so we space it out a bit. They were excellent this year and I can see our family traditions taking shape. We did not put out any presents until after they went to bed Christmas Eve we decided not to taunt them (or drive me batty) with endless can we open this now questions. Christmas morning Lela was first up but it was at her normal time, Piper kept snoozing away and Landis woke up with Lela. Lela wanted to open her stocking but it wasn’t for another 20 min or so until they wondered aloud if there were any presents under the tree, lol.

They still don’t like the idea of some strange bearded man creeping in to the house at night while they sleep and leaving gifts. So Santa did not visit us again this year but Olivia, Dora, Diego and a couple Princesses did leave gifts.

We have managed to get our thank you notes out and Christmas successfully put away so 2010 is starting off pretty good so far. I felt a bit grinchy taking everything down the day after but I am in the home stretch with Phoebe and not taking any chances or leaving anything to the last minute since I have never gone longer than 36 weeks with my pregnancies. On that note this pregnancy does look like it has staying power so Feb 8th is most likely the date of our new addition, Phoebe Melissa Haslup.