Christmas has come and gone this year and it has been a ton of fun. We've definitely been blessed. The kids spent the first 3 weeks of December sick making it a very interesting week before Christmas.
We finally got our Christmas stockings this year. Santa left some great gifts for the kids including a doll house full of furniture, some Cars matchbox cars, a couple of soccer balls and many other things. Molly and Lucy can tear through gifts at an embarrassing rate. We visited one of my aunts and Molly had 3 gifts open before she could get her camera! If you're not careful, opening gifts can be nothing short of chaos and this year was a lesson learned. Molly and Lucy left reindeer food out for Santa's "crew" as well as a plate piled high with some cookies and a half glass of almond milk. Molly was so excited that Santa polished off all of those cookies and the food bowls for the reindeer were emptied and not in their original location. The magic of Christmas was alive in our house! Lucy said "WOW!" after pulling the paper off of every gift whether it was a generic brown box or the gift itself.
In that time, Lucy's vocabulary has shot through the roof! She's beginning to fill in the missing words when you sing with her, though her missing "word" for the alphabet song is always "No!" I guess she just doesn't like that song very much. Disney's Choo Choo Soul has a neat rendition of the alphabet song and she's a bit partial to their "Choo Choo" opening diddy, so maybe that's what she wants. Little Lucy is getting better at telling us what to do to make her happy and is also getting more upset when she doesn't get what she wants. For instance, we've had to move the dog treats because she's made it very clear that it's her job to give Jack every treat from the bag at one time. Her name for Molly right now is "Nonny". It's ridiculously sweet. We're starting to see some really cute OCD behaviors form lately. For instance, she knows that Molly isn't very good at drinking her juice, so when she comes across Molly's juice, Lucy stops what she's doing, picks it up and takes it straight to Molly yelling "NOOOOOONY!!!" Lucy must keep her bear (named "Baby") and pacifier (named "Binky" sounds like "beenkee") together at all times. If she loses one, she will look for it: "BIIIIIIIINY!!!! WHERE ARE YOU?" It's very sing-songy and adorable.
Molly has been nothing short of perfect. She's been so much fun to hang out with. Her personality is really starting to form, as is her sense of humor. She loves to dress up, cook, help, and learn. Boy does she like to learn! We spent about 5 minutes watching Star Wars today right after she got up from her nap. It was the 5 minutes of R2D2 and C3PO going to have their chat with Jabba the Hutt. We're not ready, yet. Both kids stopped what they were doing and wouldn't respond to any of my questions while it was on. My little girl is definitely growing up, but she's not Star Wars grown up, yet.
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