Well, we had a wonderful Christmas day the most wonderful part being having LiLi to celebrate it with us. Also our friend Sara Lee visited for Christmas which was a lot of fun and very special. Sara Lee was with us last New Year’s Eve painting the mural in LiLi’s room. That mural is such a wonderful part of our daughter’s life. I think it inspires her in so many ways. I will come in the morning and LiLi will be obviously talking to one of her animals and then she will point out different animals while she is on her changing table. The birds are, of course, her favorite as is Sammy, the naked mole rat.
As a family, we ended up with a very birdy Christmas. Thom and I got each other bird feeders. Ten months ago, neither of us had any interest in birds and now we have a bird feeder in the backyard and one in the window. Thom and LiLi enjoy looking through the bird identifcation book together and Thom enjoys looking at it by himself, too. LiLi also got 4 new Audobon birds including an owl.
LiLi loved unwrapping gifts. Her Gram had sent her a lot of presents and some for Maggie and they were perfectly wrapped for little hands and she opened all of hers and all of Maggie’s and then started to try to unwrap everything under the tree.
Later in the day, we went to Nana and Poppie’s. LiLi enjoyed hanging out with everyone and continues to be quite the charmer. One of her favorite people still is her cousin Lila. They seem to get along very well and love to make each other laugh. Nana has one of those Santa Claus’ that sings “Jingle Bell Rock” and swings his hips. LiLi and Lila spent a good hour swinging along to Santa and then breaking up into hysterical laughter. None of us wanted to break up their fun so they ended up going to bed later than usual.
Hmm, what is in here
Look a mitten
Now I am going to try on the mitten and hat
LiLi looking ready to go out into the cold except for the fact that she is in her pajamas
LiLi and one of her birds
LiLi enjoying her presents
LiLi and Lila eating Christmas dinner
LiLi and Lila playing with LiLi’s new kitchen
Oh, the look on her face while admiring her new mitten — she must have been ecstatic when she found out there was a matching one still to come!
Speaking of matches, we’ve got that same muppet hair going on here — every so often I get the itch to trim just a little … but I’m holding out for the day when she’ll leave in a hair clip.
Here’s to another wonderful year! Beth, John, & ‘cousin’ Li-Li