Christmas Part 2

The second half of our visit home was spent with my family.  We opened gifts one of the days and spent the rest of it playing with our new goodies.  I can’t forget to mention our mad cookie skills…we tried (semi successfully) to make the cookies my grandma makes every year. 

Elliot and Marissa each got a Kitchen so I made them aprons and a chefs hat. We had a little get together with Amy and Paul and I made them a cake so they could find out the sex of their new little one…they are having another girl! It was beautiful on New Years Eve so we played outside.  Later that evening we partied (very lazily) at Amy and Paul’s.

Elliot’s uncle Paul was another easy name for him to pick up, so like “Josh” we get to hear “Paul” mentioned often around our home :) It was fun getting to watch Elliot and Marissa interact.  Most of the time Marissa wanted to play with and follow Elliot around (while yelling him name :Ell-it), but Elliot wasn’t as receptive.  He figured out that when Marissa was around he had to share all his toys at Grandma and Papa’s house. When we would ask him if he wanted to play with Marissa he would say “no”.  Then when Marissa would actually arrive he would run to the toys screaming “no, no, no”…too funny.  They would eventually play together and for the most part get along! Thank you all for everything! We had fun!