We spent a lovely Christmas Eve at home with just our family. We rode bikes, wrapped presents, watched White Christmas, and ate good food by candlelight (our traditional Chinese food menu).
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| Lily as a reindeer. |
Anwyn colored and assembled a nice Nativity backdrop and Lily colored the figures so we could tell the story of the birth of Christ.
We decided to let the kids open up the gifts that they had prepared for each other in the evening, to prevent them from getting lost in the shuffle the next day. Jared wrote a very nice post about that exchange on his blog
here.
Lily got Zach a new Lightning McQueen car, and Lily and Zach went in together to get Anwyn a Ramona book. Zach got Lily a pack of chewing gum. Anwyn spent some time sewing stuffed animals for Lily and Zach. She found out their favorite animal, then found the patterns online and got to work. They turned out cute: a turtle for Zach and a dolphin for Lily.
After sprinkling some sparkly oats in the grass for the reindeer, and leaving a plate of cookies and a letter for Santa, the children were off to bed!
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