Wow....since the last time I blogged we have been to a lot of places, have had the chance to see a lot of relatives and friends from home, and have been on a few interesting adventures. Our first adventure began on Tuesday evening when we headed home to southern Indiana despite the icy and nasty weather. We headed south first through Illinois hoping that going south first would keep us out of some of the worst road conditions. We did manage to avoid some of the icy roads, but ended up stretching the usual 5 hour drive into a 7 hour slide & drive. As we drove further south, the road conditions did improve and we made it home without any issues..thank goodness. Addy was very good throughout the trip and slept most of the way. Needless to say, when we arrived at my parents' house at midnight, she was wired and ready to go. My parents were awake and eagerly awaiting the arrival of Addy....they were glad that Derek and I made it too. Since she was so wound up, we let her play for a little while. In that short 45 minutes of play time Adalyn managed to break the shepard from my parents' nativity scence in two. Yes..a clean break that separates that shepard right at the waist. Even though we were very tired from the trip, we had a good laugh at the fact that the nativity set had survived for 28 Christmases without being broken or damaged, yet hadn't managed to survive one Addy Christmas. This may be a sign of things to come.....
We spent Christmas Eve with my family at their house. Grandma Heilers and Derek's mom also joined us for the evening. Before the festivities at my parents house, we exchanged gifts with Derek's mom. Addy emjoyed opening her presents and climbing on all the boxes. At my parents' house we exchanged presents and Addy had a special visit from a man in a red suit. Even though he had a bag full of toys for her, Addy was still a bit leary of Santa. It took a long time for her to warm up to him and after some coaxing and trickery, we finally got her to sit on his lap, but not for very long. She did try to touch his furry suit serveral times and made several reaches for his wire rimmed classes. Addy had a lot of fun playing with her gifts from everyone. Santa gave Adalyn a drum full of instruments, a bounce and spin pony, a balltivity table, and books. She was having so much fun that she didn't want to go to bed and hit a brick wall at about 9:30 and fell sound asleep.
On Christmas morning Addy gave us a very special Christmas gift....she slept until 7:30! We were thrilled! I guess all of the interaction with her family and toys really took its toll and tuckered her out! On Christmas Day we had a big meal at my parents' house and then went to visit Derek's mom. Addy had another fun -filled day of playing with all of her new toys and did her best to a prolong bedtime. Most of Christmas Day was spent playing with toys and spending time with our families. Addy loved going from toy to toy and having so many people to play with her. I am afriad that she got a bit spoiled from all of the attention. Our poor babysitters will be pulling their hair out next week!
On Friday we went to my mom's family Christmas at my Uncle Pat and Aunt Denise's house. It was really great to see all of our relatives on that side. We were unable to make it to their Christmas celebration last year and many people saw Addy for the very first time. It was great visiting and cathcing up with everyone. Once again, Adalyn took full advantage of all of the attention and got very tuckered out from all of the playing!
I will stop here and continue with Christmas part 2 tomorrow....:)
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