Merry Christmas

Santa came! Matisyn was worried that Santa wouldn't be able to find us, but then when we told her that he would know where she was, she was relieved that we would be at Grandma's because she has a chimney!

I want to give some credit to Matisyn because as difficult as she has been this year, she was smart enough to be an angel right around Christmas. She had heard more than once that naughty kids get a lump of coal in their stocking. I'm sure it also had to do with the constant attention and adoration from family and friends. It has been two weeks of bliss. I hope we continue to enjoy some improvement!

He came in full force with a little help from his helper Grandma. He brought a pink princess big girl bike and a refrigerator that matches our kitchen set for Matisyn and a Fisher Price Learning Home toy and Octotunes Octopus for Emilyn. Both their stockings as well as ours were filled up too. Santa was very good to us this year!

All Matisyn asked Santa for was a "santa dolly pink". We were never quite sure what that was, but we're glad Santa figured it out! This dolly can even go swimming and in the bath which is great for our water girl.

Dora electric toothbrush and chocolate Santa were hits out of the stocking.


Here's smiley girl Ems upon wake up on Christmas morning. She greets us with this smile every morning.



Opening their stocking stuff





Cooking some things in her new microwave


Matisyn loves to roll onto Emilyn's lap so that she'll pound on her back.

Uncle Chunk helping Matisyn open some petshops. Matisyn got mostly learning toys from us because she is such a sponge right now. She loves to play school and picks up new words constantly. We got a few like this though, and it has been fun to watch her imagination run wild with these animals.

Piggy banks along with some money from Grandma Anne


Xylophone from Grandma, it's a pretty cool toy, but it's going up for a bit. The mallets are just too tempting to whack stuff with! I know you're thinking, not Matisyn, she wouldn't possibly use something like those sticks inappropriately, but she just couldn't help it!


Christmas dinner was over at Cousin Kay's house. After we finished opening presents for the morning, Matisyn laid down and said her tummy hurt. We weren't sure if we were going to get to go over with everyone because we didn't know if she was really sick or if she just didn't feel good because she only had a chocolate Santa in her belly. We thought we'd be stuck home because she wasn't moving from the couch, but she ended up suddenly snapping out of it and feeling fine the rest of the day.

We made it over in time for a delicious turkey dinner and then headed over to visit Grandma Anne before returning for pie. That night Matisyn was up a lot. Matt ended up sleeping in her room. That next morning my sister, Diane, and brother in law, Reed, came over for breakfast. She seemed alright, but didn't have her normal energy. She ate for the first time in a while, and right after they left she threw up all over. Pretty good timing actually, if you have to get sick around the holidays. She rested all that day, and she was fine for our drive home on Sunday.

Their dog Teddy, he loves playing with the girls, him and Matisyn were buds when she was a baby too!




Day three of present unwrapping, this was the day Matisyn just stayed home and rested since she wasn't feeling well.







After our long drive home, it took us 13 hours because of the snow on the pass in Tahoe, Matisyn gave Emilyn her bottle. It was so cute!



Cotton candy ice cream at the mall with Jens. Even before the ice cream they were running like wild animals through the stores. They both have a lot of energy and together it seems to multiply!


The first and last time I will give Emilyn a plate with food on it for a while. I wasn't thinking, and forgot to transfer the peaches to her tray after I cut them up. I walked away and she looked at me, smiled, and dropped the plate over the edge!

Our family Christmas tree picture


This one is without Matisyn because she refused to be in it because Daddy sat in front of her Winnie the Pooh ornament.

Emilyn's first time with shoes! It's been so cold outside and she pulls her socks right off.

Round 2 with Matisyn next to her favorite ornament.



Sylvie and Emilyn

Matisyn Quotes:

"Emmers, what do you want to be when you grow up? How about a clown, or a drummer, or a queen or a princess?" The drummer was my favorite option.

"I've never seen Daddy with a lot of hair."

"I have so many tooties, I don't have to buy any gas."

"I'm a 'burpadactyl' like Daddy."

"That is so very interesting." Said after watching Morton Norton the snake swirl into a coil.

"I'm so nervous." Said after throwing up over and over. I would be too.

When something is missing or destroyed we, of course, look to Matisyn. Her new thing is to say, "Uh, I think Izzy did it." Finally this last time we said, I don't think Izzy did it, she's not even in California. So she said, "Uh, then maybe it was Maili."

Favorite Matisyn sayings:

"you're trickin' me"
"fantastic"
"that's super cool"
"it's not fair"
"stinky linky"
"what a silly willy"
"I am 16 years old"