We had a wonderful Christmas this year. The entire family attended Christmas Eve service at our church and then fought off the yawns until finally we fell asleep. We luckily left out cookies and milk for santa claus before we got too tired. Whew! Santa arrived and left just a few crumbs of the cookies, in addition, to several wonderful presents for Jonas and Elsa.
Elsa has discovered that she really wants to be a doctor. She now has a doctor coat and various doctor instruments...and is keeping the host of toy babies in great health. She takes temperatures and prescribes the necessary medicines or bedside care to ensure fast recoveries.
Jonas is becoming a master builder of lego and thomas the train tracks. It is really cool to see him and Elsa create tracks or cars from lego bricks.
Elsa and Jonas have also taken to playing pirates! Our couch serves as the ship and our living room floor as the ocean for various adventures. The occasional shark has been spotted when our ship sinks but so far no pirates have been lost.
We also spent a day at the Washington State History Museum's annual train festival. Miniature train sets were set up all over the museum. It was amazing. Jonas and Elsa and their birthday twin, Joshua (and his little sister too), had a great time checking out all the sets. It was a lot of fun and we topped it off by coming back home and making tracks with Thomas. A great day!
It has been a true joy to have the gift of time to play and play and play. We hope the new year brings lots more laughs and love!
God Bless,
Mari & Dan & Elsa & Jonas
