Christmas

Zoë hand painted most our gifts this year and she had a blast doing it!

We traveled to Georgia for Christmas, it was delayed by a day due to a 24 hour stomach bug that Zoë and Derek had.  While in GA we got to visit a lot with Aunt Misha and Uncle Stephen and of course with Nana and Pop.  On Christmas Eve we went to Aunt Robins house and Zoë had a blast hanging out with her cousin Zeke.  He is 9 and was so sweet to her.  Zeke helped Z open her gifts from Aunt Robin and set them up, then he went to his room and found a lot of toys he did not want and gave them to her.  We left with a Santa size bag of toys!

That night we set out cookies and milk for Santa.  Next year we will be home for Christmas so we will make Santa some eggless cookies, dealing with a vomiting Z the days before we left I could not get my act together on making some.

Zoë had a hard time sleeping that night and finally settled in around 3 am so we had to wake her at 8 am.  She was so excited to see he had brought her Blue Candy!  She tore through her gifts and wanted to open more when they were all done.  She looked under the empty tree and said:  "Santa no bring no presents."

reading books to her Cailou doll, whose tucked into her new sleeping bag

We were all so tired Christmas Day and had to drive home, which was very sad.  Zoë slept pretty much the entire drive home and still went to bed at 8 pm about an hour after we got home and slept through the night until 7 am.