our ritual after dinner the past week has been to drive around the neighborhood looking at christmas lights. and, every time, both you girls fall asleep within the first 10 minutes of the drive. i'm really not sure why we haven't ever tried this in the past. needless to say the nights have been peaceful.
we have watched frosty the snowman at least 20 times....i've been trying to sneak in a different christmas movie (the polar express, charlie brown, rudolph), but stella, frosty and you are bffs this christmas season.
yesterday morning was sort of trying...we all just couldn't get on the same page. a lot of fussing and tears. so after lunch we went for a long bike ride to the "big park" and on the way home stopped for a cup of coffee and snack at antidote and then continued our new tradition by weaving through the neighborhood looking at lights.
then! the biggest surprise of all, the little church near our house had an outdoor nativity last night, complete with a camel! we watched the choir warm up and fed the camel some treats before heading home. the camel was named 'sarah' and later in the night stella referred to her as 'mommy.'
we're lucky that our neighbor is awesome, so after you girls went to sleep we grabbed the baby monitor and walked across the street for a fun christmas dinner with lots of good food and conversation.
it was the perfect way to spend a saturday night if you ask me.
we have watched frosty the snowman at least 20 times....i've been trying to sneak in a different christmas movie (the polar express, charlie brown, rudolph), but stella, frosty and you are bffs this christmas season.
yesterday morning was sort of trying...we all just couldn't get on the same page. a lot of fussing and tears. so after lunch we went for a long bike ride to the "big park" and on the way home stopped for a cup of coffee and snack at antidote and then continued our new tradition by weaving through the neighborhood looking at lights.
then! the biggest surprise of all, the little church near our house had an outdoor nativity last night, complete with a camel! we watched the choir warm up and fed the camel some treats before heading home. the camel was named 'sarah' and later in the night stella referred to her as 'mommy.'
we're lucky that our neighbor is awesome, so after you girls went to sleep we grabbed the baby monitor and walked across the street for a fun christmas dinner with lots of good food and conversation.
it was the perfect way to spend a saturday night if you ask me.