Christmas Morning-- Now with Video

Christmas morning was so magical this year. Macy was so excited and so grateful. I'll admit that I teared up a little as Macy ran to the front door after taking each item out of her stocking and yelled, "thank you Santa." And then she laughed as she carefully placed each item in a row on the floor.

It took so much energy running to the door and then so much concentration to make the line straight that she had to take a little break before opening her presents.

She didn't even end up opening all of her presents that day. I think it was Sunday before she finally wanted to open the last one.

She got a little Dyson vacuum, a camera, a lot of Pez dispensers (for the past two months, if JD saw a Pez dispenser with a character from a show she likes, he bought it), some books, a tea set, art supplies and a little car for her stuffed animals and dolls to drive. The car has proven to be her favorite gift -- she has played with it a ton. I'll admit that it was my favorite thing she got too.

A Couple of Christmas Advent Highlights

We finally got around to getting a tree with less than two weeks until Christmas.

Her face here says it all. We had to wake her up that morning for our ward Christmas party and then she had to be chased and corralled for two hours during the party. She wasn't really feeling it. We let her choose whatever tree she wanted. And she picked this little darling. I loved it so much!

This was supposed to be a trip to This is the Place park to see the reindeer. But I neglected to look it up and it turns out the reindeer are only out at night. But we had a great time at the zoo, it was probably the least crowded place in the valley on the last Saturday before Christmas.

Merry Christmas 2009

Macy's Musings

Macy and I were walking into our room and I told her to say good morning and wake up JD. She came up with her own way to wake him up. She marched into the room, squeezed her own nose and let out a loud honk. She now continues to do this anytime one of us pretends to be asleep.

Macy loves to stack toys, blocks, and puzzle pieces. She calls it "making a rhombus." (For any Curious George fans, this comes from the episode where George helps in the chocolate store.) And if there is any sort of tapering at the top, she deems it a temple.

She calls all heart-shaped items "loves" and it's so adorable that I don't think we'll ever correct her.

The other day she was really pushing on the top of her head and becoming very frustrated. JD asked her what was wrong she said, "it won't go inside like a turtle".

For dinner the other night, I got out the block of cheese and put it on the table before I grated it. Macy was thrilled and called out "muh cheese, muh favorite cheese" and then took several bites out it. She has the tiniest teeth, so it looks like a mouse got ahold of it.

Meeting Mr. Claus 2009

I made the mistake of getting out the framed photos of Macy's two past meetings with Mr. Claus with my Christmas decorations. Macy was convinced by last year's picture that Santa was scary. In anticipation of Santa visiting JD's work tonight, we hyped the excitement of seeing Santa all week, so today she told me she would not cry but she wanted her own chair.

In the end, she sat on his lap but refused to look at him. Fair enough.

Happy Thanksgiving

I am grateful for so many things and these two are at the top of the list.  I am blessed.

Somehow

Macy has really been cracking us up around here lately. Some of our favorite quotes are "it's awfully dark in here" and "put your hands away," which she said to JD when he was tickling her back. For months, she has been asking us "is that crazy?" or "is that silly?" about a hundred times a day. 

She also loves to role play. She will announce who she is and who we (her supporting cast) are. The most common is Macy as Mike Wazowski, JD as Sully, me as Celia, and her favorite stuffed hippo as Boo. She is also commonly "Georgio" (Curious George), JD as The Man in the Yellow Hat (which was first shortened to just "Yellow Hat" but has now changed to "Man"), and me as Professor Wiseman. The latter is our favorite because she sounds like a little hippie calling JD "Man" at the end of every sentence. 

She is very strict about staying in character and does not forget or use the wrong name. She is not happy when we call her Macy if she is in character. Rosie came to play the other day and Macy said "I'm Mike" about 250 times as Rosie kept calling her Macy. Then they would both laugh and laugh.

Her latest this week is adding the word "somehow" to the end of almost everything she says. It makes for some very funny statements.

At each stage of Macy's development I think that I want to freeze her there, yet each new stage is just as fun and wonderful.  And each day we love her even more, somehow.