Before leaving for PA we had some friends over to decorate Christmas cookies. Kylee, Brayden, and Charlotte made sugar cookies (with sprinkles of course!) We had a great time making (and of course eating!) our cookies!
We ended up getting to PA a day later than expected. On Wednesday morning we took Ryland to the doctor hoping to get a quick prescription to take care of a cough he had picked up. Turns out that he ended up in the ER for most of the morning getting oxygen treatments and some other testing done. He had a pretty good case of Viral Croupe. The doctors suggested that we wait one more day to leave just to be sure we didn't need to bring him back to the hospital.
We got to PA and were ready to celebrate Christmas. On Christmas Eve we got all dressed up and ready for church.
Then it was time to get our Christmas pajamas on (picked out by Kylee) and get all set up for Santa to come. I realize looking at the picture that it seems we have a bit of a "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree" BUT it is actually our "travel tree." Since we will always be somewhere other than our house for Christmas we take this little tree with us and put some of our own ornaments on it -- that way Santa will always know where to find us! : ) Kylee put our milk, cookies, and carrots for Santa along with a note that said "I love you Santa Claus. I love you Rudolph Red Nose." Then she and Daddy went outside and sprinkled reindeer food on Nana's and Grandad's front lawn to help with Santa's traveling and navigation. We put our stockings by the bed (Ryland still wasn't 100% so this was the best stocking hanging we were going to get from him) and went to sleep.
Turns out that the "wake up really early to see if Santa came" phase has not hit Kylee yet. She was the last one to wake up at the house. We were actually all sitting around waiting for her! Then when it was time to open presents ... she was happy and all but she had to keep stopping to take a drink of her apple juice!?!? It was pretty comical and not completely what I was expecting. All in all though ... it was a great Christmas morning!
Our drive up to MA was also postponed a day due to snow. Seems like the time line we had made for this break was not going to work out for us. When we did get there though, Kylee was very excited to go outside and play. She wasn't too into the sledding but really wanted to build a snowman! She had a great time and now keeps wanting the snow to come to VA too! (I had to include the picture of Ryland on the sled byhimself because everytime I look at it I think "I can't put my arms down!" ha ha ha!)
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