Christmas Eve!

Ok so I know that it is January 4th... but I thought I would catch everyone up over the next few days on our Christmas and New Years festivities. Many of you know that we stayed in California this year and had our first Christmas alone. It was relaxing and fantastic! On Christmas Eve we started a new Laudie tradition and traveled into the City to walk around and see the large tree in Union Square.

It was cold (for California) so we bundled up. Yep that's right, bundling in California meant we walked around with sweaters on. I did put a hat on Shayla at least...

Shayla loved the tree and kept telling us stories about it in her Shaylanese. (This is the language she is currently speaking) I was a good Mommy this day and listened attentively.

Jon also listened very carefully as she told us all about what was happening.

Shayla's favorite part of the day though was climbing all over the steps. She did this over and over again. She also liked chasing the pigeons. Luckily they never let her get near enough to them to snap a picture of this part of the day.

We went home and put Shay to bed, had a nice Christmas Eve dinner. And played Santa! For the first time we got to be Santa and Mrs. Claus! It was exciting! It made me so excited for Christmas day! Then we had to wait until the next morning to see Shayla's reaction....