Merry Christmas!

We had a nice and quiet Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, just the three of us. Our traditional German Christmas Eve celebration was postponed until Friday due to the weather. So for the first time we started our own family traditions. The night before Christmas we put out cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. Josie didn't really understand the whole idea of putting food out on the fireplace hearth for someone else. She obviously was interested in the food for herself!

On Christmas morning, we all woke up (at a very reasonable hour) and Josie opened her stocking that Santa had left for her. She opened a few gifts from Uncle Tim, Aunt Kelley, Aunt Angie and Uncle Kevin. Her final gift for Christmas day was a Dora style map leading her to the gift that Santa (thanks Oma and Opa!) had left her.

The snow and freezing temperatures weren't the best for trying out a new swing set but she gave it her best. After about 20 minutes she demanded we all go in and warm up our hands! Once all the snow melts and the weather warms up I have no doubt that it will be a struggle to ever get her to come inside.