You will notice my wonderful garage sale finds. Lydia is into being a mommy. She loves to play with her baby doll. This little "station" you can feed her, give her a bath and there's a crib attached. Great find!
Adriana is into make-up and all things "girly" so I found this wonderful play set. The chair opens up to store the make-up, I only got a few dollar store items she liked, (lip-gloss mostly) I also made pretend makeup with my own makeup containers that were empty. You just pour a little nail polish in. Use fun colors...let it dry and it's a "permanent" pretend make up inside! (Did I ever mention I love Pinterest?) They give you such great ideas! I found the mirror at good will and put it on since the one that came with it was more like a shiny sticker than a mirror...Unfortunately later that day Eli got upset at Adriana about something and knocked this whole thing to the ground, breaking the mirror. But it still works and looks as cute as ever.
Eli was also very into these Squibies? Squishies? Whatever they are, they are tiny and have all the action hero's and characters from the movies. He loves them, I can't believe how tiny they are and he is only allowed to play on the table with them. I'm afraid Laney might get ahold of one and choke! But they are cute! I also got Eli a VHS (yes, we still use our Video player!) I can find movies REALLY cheap...at least older ones, anyway, found "mighty Joe" it's kind of a B movie to say the least but it has a HUGE gorilla and that's all that matters to Eli. He LOVES it!
Lydia got bored opening presents (weird huh?) So she just started playing with everything that was already opened. Having a great time on her own while the other two tore through the rest and Laney just laughed and laughed. Eli's first ACTION FIGURE! Of course it's Spider man....funny thing is...Eli has never even seen Spider man the movie or cartoon. He might have seen a few seconds at someone's house as they flipped through channels or something. But he has never actually seen the movie. I find it fascinating he could be so attached to something he doesn't even really know...
Everyone playing until they all started to complain about not feeling well. I was tired and I know they were too but I soon realized we were all sick...fevers began to spike and everyone was coughing and miserable. We actually stayed home the rest of the day, not getting out of our PJ's. We weren't able to visit family in Peoria. Although I was sick it was kind of nice staying home. Not having to be anywhere and to just lounge around. I think sometimes we get so caught up in the gifts and everything else that we often forget Christmas and to really enjoy it. To cuddle and laugh with our kids. To remember Christ and all that he has done for us. To share that knowledge with others and to show our appreciation to him in all that we do. I liked being sick...gave me more time to think and appreciate than I usually do.
