It's 1:54. In the morning. My child is sitting here with me in the kitchen eating her weight in lunch meat and blueberries (jet lag is a b!). What to do? Blog about what we did today (since Snapfish is still crippled and non-functioning, UGH!). Just a few minutes ago, Maya walked up to one of the stockings hanging on Grammie's mantle and pointed to a Santa and said, what's this? And so it begins. I didn't think we would have long before we faced this question. I thought it might come tonight when we walked around the block and looked at Christmas lights, but she didn't bring it up, so neither did I. I told her he was St. Nicholas and she said, "Oh Nate Sicholas?" Sooooo, any good book titles about the real story of St. Nick? I'm going to go tomorrow to get a book, and maybe some golden coin looking chocolate, so we can tell the story of St. Nick and the stockings. I could just tell her, but I think she believes it more if we read it from a book. And I think it's a special story and I want to have a book about it anyway. So, let me know if you have a great book and we can look for it.
So, we're in America, if you haven't figured it out by lunchmeat, blueberries, christmas lights, and oh yah, we ate MEXICAN FOOD for lunch! The journey was . . . a little bit traumatic. Still too mad to write about it without including a lot of inappropriate phrases. Sorry mom. After the travels to get here, everything has been roses! We have played in the yard in leaves, Gone for two walks, drank two flavors of eggnog, did yoga while three under three's crawled among and on us, matt and his mom rode bikes, niki and i pulled the kids in a wagon, we took naps (apparently too late in the day, because now we can't sleep), it was pretty much all around awesome. Tomorrow is a busy day. Matt to the dentist, both of us to the DMV, me to the sleep Dr (can I get a Hallelujah?!), Paw Paw gets into town, and I think we will go cut down our own Christmas tree! Then the next day I think we will celebrate Maya's birthday! It will be a cowgirl/Toy Story birthday, thrown by Grammie and Niki and they showed us this outfit that they got fo her today and she squealed she was so excited! I can't wait to show you the pics! In the meantime, here are a few moments from our first day in America (oh yah, other funny things that Maya has noticed: putting tp in the toilet, not recognizing a street because it looks nothing like a street in our world (and there were no cars driving/parking on it, so how do you know it's even a street?), a backyard where we can play ball, and the most surprising?--a garage door! We closed the garage door and she said, "What happened?"!! I'll try to write down/remember the things that are new to her and let you know. It's so fun to see it through her eyes! I'll leave you with these and hopefully we will both be going back to bed soon . . .
Well, it seems I have maxed out my free Google storage--which I guess means I can't upload any more pics to my blog until I start paying for it. Commies. So, I'll make an album on fb and link it here. Hang on, I'll be right back
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I think that's how you do this. Got Maya back to bed and think I can fall asleep if I try again now. Goodnight America, Good morning home.
