This post is my attempt to capture the Christmas that we experienced around the Nydam household. I realize that about two months has passed since our last post, but we'll catch up on those last couple of months on the next post. This one is dedicated to Santa, reindeer, and Christmas lights. I feel that to truly represent our time leading up to Christmas, I should talk about Christmas lights for pages and pages, because Elsie and Jess were so fascinated with them that we spent many nights driving around to look at them. And Elsie became so infatuated with the reindeer on people's lawns that she would give us a heart-wrenching cry when we finally had to drive away. So we decided to get our own reindeer for our lawn -- can you see the joy in her face? They would watch them out the window as the reindeer's heads bobbed up and down, and would ask to go out and see them all the time. We thought it was pretty cute.
We started talking a bit about Santa, and they enjoyed wearing their Santa Claus sleepers to bed (and Jess wanted to wear the headlamp to bed too, but that didn't work out so well). We thought that they might enjoy actually meeting Santa, but you can tell from the next picture that this wasn't the case.
Sheer terror.
One of the favorite activities was to play with the manger set from Great-Grandma Nydam the previous Chrismas. They learned most of the names of the characters, and while the angel was the favorite, the wise men were a little confusing.
We decorated the tree with the breakable ornaments on the top half, and the non-breakable ones on the bottom. Both Elsie and Jess thought is was fun to rearrange the tree, and Elsie especially liked to take the ornaments off and organize them in her little chair. She would send Jess to bring her another one, and then she would put it in her perfect little line. I really don't know where she gets that from...
On Christmas Eve, we went to the zoo with Nana, Poppie and Uncle Aaron. There was a light display of lots of different animals and a few of the real animals were out too. I think that Elsie liked the lights the best, but Jess liked the real animals the best. Here we're studying one of the animated light displays.
The kids were spoiled by all family members this year, and they loved it. This is a tea set that Elsie bonded with immediately, and it was adorable to watch both of them set up for a tea party. While they have used their imaginations in the past, it was suddenly obvious that their imaginations have grown tremendously.
Jess went right for the teapot. I mean, if it's good to drink out of a cup, why not go right for the source?
Jess on his new bike -- there's no training wheels, but kids learn to walk and then start to scoot. He can't touch the ground yet, but by the summer he'll be scooting around in no time. So far we've been wheeling them around in circles on the hardwood floors.
Elsie likes hers just as much.
Family photo. If you look closely, you can see a banana in Jess's hand. There was no negotiating (to a happy ending anyway) about that for some reason...
We got to spend some good time with the Nydam side of the family up at the cabin in Winter Park. Scottie and his fiancee Jennifer came in from California, Aaron and Leah came in from Wyoming, and Ron and Sugar from Michigan. We're not often all in the same place, so it was nice to have everybody there. We did a little downhill and cross-country skiing, played games, and just relaxed. Although I didn't get to see my family (Trev was actually on call Christmas Eve and Christmas Day), we'll be seeing them soon for the twins' birthday.
Sledding was a fun new activity. It was interesting to me that after the first ride, for which we happened to place Elsie in the front, that spot was designated as hers. We tried to switch them around once, and there was much protesting.
Poppie especially got into it by running as fast as he could. Elsie would hunker down and giggle, and Jess would laugh and clap his hands (if you click to enlarge it you can see their smiles).
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
This post is my attempt to capture the Christmas that we experienced around the Nydam household. I realize that about two months has passed since our last post, but we'll catch up on those last couple of months on the next post. This one is dedicated to Santa, reindeer, and Christmas lights. I feel that to truly represent our time leading up to Christmas, I should talk about Christmas lights for pages and pages, because Elsie and Jess were so fascinated with them that we spent many nights driving around to look at them. And Elsie became so infatuated with the reindeer on people's lawns that she would give us a heart-wrenching cry when we finally had to drive away. So we decided to get our own reindeer for our lawn -- can you see the joy in her face? They would watch them out the window as the reindeer's heads bobbed up and down, and would ask to go out and see them all the time. We thought it was pretty cute.
We started talking a bit about Santa, and they enjoyed wearing their Santa Claus sleepers to bed (and Jess wanted to wear the headlamp to bed too, but that didn't work out so well). We thought that they might enjoy actually meeting Santa, but you can tell from the next picture that this wasn't the case.
Sheer terror.
One of the favorite activities was to play with the manger set from Great-Grandma Nydam the previous Chrismas. They learned most of the names of the characters, and while the angel was the favorite, the wise men were a little confusing.
We decorated the tree with the breakable ornaments on the top half, and the non-breakable ones on the bottom. Both Elsie and Jess thought is was fun to rearrange the tree, and Elsie especially liked to take the ornaments off and organize them in her little chair. She would send Jess to bring her another one, and then she would put it in her perfect little line. I really don't know where she gets that from...
On Christmas Eve, we went to the zoo with Nana, Poppie and Uncle Aaron. There was a light display of lots of different animals and a few of the real animals were out too. I think that Elsie liked the lights the best, but Jess liked the real animals the best. Here we're studying one of the animated light displays.
The kids were spoiled by all family members this year, and they loved it. This is a tea set that Elsie bonded with immediately, and it was adorable to watch both of them set up for a tea party. While they have used their imaginations in the past, it was suddenly obvious that their imaginations have grown tremendously.
Jess went right for the teapot. I mean, if it's good to drink out of a cup, why not go right for the source?
Jess on his new bike -- there's no training wheels, but kids learn to walk and then start to scoot. He can't touch the ground yet, but by the summer he'll be scooting around in no time. So far we've been wheeling them around in circles on the hardwood floors.
Elsie likes hers just as much.
Family photo. If you look closely, you can see a banana in Jess's hand. There was no negotiating (to a happy ending anyway) about that for some reason...
We got to spend some good time with the Nydam side of the family up at the cabin in Winter Park. Scottie and his fiancee Jennifer came in from California, Aaron and Leah came in from Wyoming, and Ron and Sugar from Michigan. We're not often all in the same place, so it was nice to have everybody there. We did a little downhill and cross-country skiing, played games, and just relaxed. Although I didn't get to see my family (Trev was actually on call Christmas Eve and Christmas Day), we'll be seeing them soon for the twins' birthday.
Sledding was a fun new activity. It was interesting to me that after the first ride, for which we happened to place Elsie in the front, that spot was designated as hers. We tried to switch them around once, and there was much protesting.
Poppie especially got into it by running as fast as he could. Elsie would hunker down and giggle, and Jess would laugh and clap his hands (if you click to enlarge it you can see their smiles).
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
1 comment:
some great pictures and fun blog to read!! thanks for posting!!
hope you had a good new year as well.
Pam (krombeen)
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