I hurt my back a few days ago doing …who knows what. It is slowly getting better but the fact that Elspeth is in a “carry me, hold me, hug me” phase is slowing the process. That aside, you all know how much I love Christmas so hurting or not it was outside for some holiday fun this weekend.
Saturday afternoon saw us heading out to the Community Safety Village for their holiday celebration. Everything was going good until Elspeth saw the horses wearing Santa hats. I don’t know if it was the live horses or that they had the hats and she couldn’t reconcile horses with Santa, but she literally climbed up everytime they turned a corner near us. We are calling it good for bonding but bad for the back. Aside from that, the girls had a lot of fun decorating cookies, doing crafts and listening to choirs. We ended it by visiting with Santa. This visit was a landmark. It was the first time that Elspeth (who talks about Santa all day) did not freak out when she saw him. It is the first photo we have gotten where she is not in tears. If we can get our scanner working I will post it but until then you will have to take my word for it. We ended the day driving home into the sunset.
Today it was off to church. Katrine was thrilled because it was the Sunday school PJ party where they watched Little Drummer boy while eating cookies and hot chocolate with marshmallow (just one big one). Elspeth did not spend that much time with me in the baby room because we were in the bathroom. I had forgotten how much fun potty training can be for young ones but who am I to argue with a girl who is determined to be like her big sister and get into underwear (one less diaper is fine with me). Then while Elspeth was napping, Katrine went to decorate a gingerbread house with her Grammy at Longos. I think that they did a great job. Much more patience than I would’ve had. Katrine actually wants to save it, uneaten, until after Christmas day which is fine by me because we have mounds of candy canes to go through first.
I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend. Two weeks today is Christmas Day. Can’t wait. Oh, I almost forgot. We had Elspeth out on single blades this week. She can stand! Then she tries to run and falls. I think that we may need to put the cage back on her helmet.
