We started out the Christmas season by picking out a Christmas tree. We found one pretty quickly and would have home in no time if our keys hadn't gotten locked inside the minivan. Its still up for debate on whose fault it was, but luckily my sister lives less than 5 minutes from there and came to rescue us until a locksmith could come and open the door. We finally made it home several hours later and started to decorate that night. We decided after Ethan pulled off a few ornaments and knocked the tree over twice, to only decorate the top half.
We also took our family photo for our Christmas card (which I finally mailed out on the 23rd!) It was impossible to get a good shot of both of them, when we finally got Ethan to cooperate, Lilly had fallen asleep!
One of the many adorable Christmas outfits we were given.
Lilly all bundled up. She had a hard time sleeping anywhere and we happy to see she would sleep in the bean bag
On Christmas eve we went over to my grandparents' (Ita and Ito) house. Ethan loves to hold her.
Grandma with her grand-daughters Cindy and Lilly
On Christmas morning Ryan and I received the best present ever, Lilly slept 10 hours straight and Ethan slept until almost 9 am. That allowed us to finish packing for Maryland since we had stayed up the night before setting up the train set Santa had brought him. He loved the train set and we had a hard time getting him to open the rest of the presents. Ryan also surprised me with a pandora bracelet after we decided not to get each other gifts and buy a new TV instead! I love it and will have to thank his students if I ever visit because they were the ones who suggested it after chastising him when he told him he wasn't getting me a gift.
After we headed out for a six hour drive to Maryland to be with Ryan's family. The drive went much better than I thought it would. We only stopped two times. Ethan did okay but towards the end was done with being in his seat. I'm glad we have a minivan because I ended up sitting in the 3rd row entertaining Ethan (he is still rear-racing) and Lilly.
We drove straight to Ryan's grandparents house where everyone was meeting for Christmas dinner. Ethan had a lot of fun playing catch on the stairs. While Ethan was very happy to be out of the car, it was too much for Lilly and she was not a very happy little girl that night.
Uncle Nate with Lilly. We were glad Nate and Ashley we able to hang out with us for two days and can't wait to go back in February when their little boy will be arriving!
Daddy and Lilly before the gift exchange. You can see how excited she was to open more gifts. We had to wait until Ethan was napping to open them because on Christmas he threw himself on Great-Grandma's pile of presents. It probably didn't help that everyone laughed, because he kept doing it.
Brittany, Melissa, Brittany and Josh playing rummikub after the gift exchange
Rock band is a Fisher tradition
They played a lot of rock band. We did take a break to take Ethan to the pet store one day. He loved the "nake" and "ish" especially "momo" (Nemo) We also took a trip to the mall to the little playground and a different pet store. Ethan will never have a pet snake no matter how much he loved looking at them!
Lilly needed a break from all the music and Grandma was happy to rock her
When Ethan got up from his nap, he wanted to join in on rock band.
Aunt Brittany with her boyfriend Josh getting some Lilly time
Ethan had no shortage of people willing to play with him and convinced Aunt Melissa to watch him do a puzzle.
Ethan finally got his chance to play the drums.
Lilly sleeping during yet another rock band session
Ethan loved swinging on the treadmill like a monkey or a"oo ah" as he calls them.
Before we left we went to visit Ryan's grandparents again and Great-Grandma Fisher finally got some Lilly time as she was much calmer than on Christmas.
Aunt Melissa with Lilly one last time before we made the drive back home
We enjoyed our Christmas, we hope you did too!
1 comment:
love the family Christmas photo! turned out great!
that is how we travel is at night! so much better!!!
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