Christmas Eve
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26 December 2018
25 December 2018
Spiderwebs and a Kitty Place
Tia Linda and Tio Pete have been wanting to take Dyleva for a while.
Tia Linda wants them to come over and make Christmas cookies, and Tio Pete has been asking to take Dylan to the movies.
I keep explaining the three-day minimum to them; but they don't listen.
Instead, Dyleva had the day off of school for no apparent reason, (Thank you Lancaster school district), and that was the day we chose.
Dylan was all excited. He was going to see Spiderman: Spiderverse, (or something like that).
When I ask if he enjoyed himself, I get the habitual, half-hearted, "Yeah."
But the details and the excitement come out later. I think both Dyleva processes and reflects, and then out spills the details and emotion at a later day and time. They do this with everything; especially when I ask how school was that day.
Later, I heard all about the different Spidermans and Spiderpig. He came home clutching his giant bag of popcorn and beverage.
He was happy.
Now Tia Linda found a special place to take Eva. Apparently, there is some Cat lady that lives in the city, opens up her home, serves food, and charges money for visiting her cats.
No, seriously, Tia Linda found a 'Cat Cafe,' that actually adopts out cats. Eva was able to go in and play with them for an hour. A truly selfless gift; considering Tia Linda is allergic to cats!
Both ninos are truly lucky to have such wonderful Tios. Even if they did return them after only one day.
Tia Linda wants them to come over and make Christmas cookies, and Tio Pete has been asking to take Dylan to the movies.
I keep explaining the three-day minimum to them; but they don't listen.
Instead, Dyleva had the day off of school for no apparent reason, (Thank you Lancaster school district), and that was the day we chose.
Dylan was all excited. He was going to see Spiderman: Spiderverse, (or something like that).
When I ask if he enjoyed himself, I get the habitual, half-hearted, "Yeah."
But the details and the excitement come out later. I think both Dyleva processes and reflects, and then out spills the details and emotion at a later day and time. They do this with everything; especially when I ask how school was that day.
Later, I heard all about the different Spidermans and Spiderpig. He came home clutching his giant bag of popcorn and beverage.
He was happy.
Now Tia Linda found a special place to take Eva. Apparently, there is some Cat lady that lives in the city, opens up her home, serves food, and charges money for visiting her cats.
No, seriously, Tia Linda found a 'Cat Cafe,' that actually adopts out cats. Eva was able to go in and play with them for an hour. A truly selfless gift; considering Tia Linda is allergic to cats!
Both ninos are truly lucky to have such wonderful Tios. Even if they did return them after only one day.
Love and Gum Drops
There was high anticipation for Enano, our elf to show up!
We went to get our tree. It was a beautiful day!
Of course we had to look at every tree to find the perfect one in the lot!
We returned home and decorated both the house and tree in the same day. That is normally a pretty big job; but this year, Dyleva couldn't be more helpful! They were super into it, and weren't fighting. In past years, I remember quibbling over every ornament and Dylan going off to play Pokemon.
Well, he showed up the next day. Enano.
This did not satisfy Dyleva.
This year, they want to get to know Enano.
Dylan started it, by leaving a note.
Enano answered it the next day.
Well, that is all Eva needed.
She quickly made a list of questions for the elf.
So, day by day, Enano has been answering Eva's questions. One at a time. Each time he signs a note, he signs it, "Love and gum drops, Enano."
They also each wrote a letter to Santa, albeit a little later than normal this year.
We went to get our tree. It was a beautiful day!
Of course we had to look at every tree to find the perfect one in the lot!
We returned home and decorated both the house and tree in the same day. That is normally a pretty big job; but this year, Dyleva couldn't be more helpful! They were super into it, and weren't fighting. In past years, I remember quibbling over every ornament and Dylan going off to play Pokemon.
Well, he showed up the next day. Enano.
This did not satisfy Dyleva.
This year, they want to get to know Enano.
Dylan started it, by leaving a note.
Enano answered it the next day.
Well, that is all Eva needed.
She quickly made a list of questions for the elf.
So, day by day, Enano has been answering Eva's questions. One at a time. Each time he signs a note, he signs it, "Love and gum drops, Enano."
They also each wrote a letter to Santa, albeit a little later than normal this year.
02 December 2018
Holiday Prep!
Dyleva has been quick to get into the holiday spirit this year!
Dyleva decided to take advantage of the beautiful snowfall. It was perfect packing snow. They started with one snowman, and before we knew it, they multiplied.
Clearly, after one plays in the cold snow for hours, we needed to top it off with one killer hot cocoa.
This weekend, Dyleva has began their gingerbread houses. They had so much creativity this year!
Eva went big; think gingerbread yard. She has gummy bears making snowmen, fishing, and having a campfire. She did a lot of attention to detail.
Dylan, I later found out had a plan. He decorated a dulce-packed Santa, put him in the back of the train, and drowned him in sweets all around.
He did put some unique, creative decorations around the edge; like the scorpion pooping sugar babies, but his main objective (I think) was to have a plethora of sweets to pick from daily as he walks by his gingerbread house.
@@@@@
We attended Eva's Christmas concert this week. It was for chorus, but not for viola.
I was confused why the fourth grade viola was not having a holiday performance. I quickly realized why.
Eva's chorus was beautiful. Latin Christmas song, Carol of the Bells, very magical.
And then the fifth grade orchestra came on.
Good lord. They should have waited for sixth grade. Now I completely understand.
@@@
Christmas cookies!
Christmas shopping! Movies! Cocoa!
Christmas projects for our friends!
Dylan make each classmate a treat bag with personalized tag.
Eva made Christmas slime!
Dyleva decided to take advantage of the beautiful snowfall. It was perfect packing snow. They started with one snowman, and before we knew it, they multiplied.
Clearly, after one plays in the cold snow for hours, we needed to top it off with one killer hot cocoa.
This weekend, Dyleva has began their gingerbread houses. They had so much creativity this year!
Eva went big; think gingerbread yard. She has gummy bears making snowmen, fishing, and having a campfire. She did a lot of attention to detail.
Dylan, I later found out had a plan. He decorated a dulce-packed Santa, put him in the back of the train, and drowned him in sweets all around.
He did put some unique, creative decorations around the edge; like the scorpion pooping sugar babies, but his main objective (I think) was to have a plethora of sweets to pick from daily as he walks by his gingerbread house.
@@@@@
We attended Eva's Christmas concert this week. It was for chorus, but not for viola.
I was confused why the fourth grade viola was not having a holiday performance. I quickly realized why.
And then the fifth grade orchestra came on.
Good lord. They should have waited for sixth grade. Now I completely understand.
@@@
Christmas cookies!
Christmas shopping! Movies! Cocoa!
Christmas projects for our friends!
Dylan make each classmate a treat bag with personalized tag.
Eva made Christmas slime!
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