Christmas Fun

I have not run across anything much more fun than granddaughters - and being with granddaughters at Christmas is just the best! We were blessed to be able to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with Computer Guy, Darling Wife and the girls; Misses C & A! Christmas Eve we all dressed up to go to church then out to a wonderful dinner at PF Changs - (Oh my - wonderful food!!) then back to their house for bedtimes and the wonderful hot cocoa with homemade peppermint marshmallos!!

MissC had a special dress of black velvet with a wide pink bow at the dropped waist and black bows in her hair. The 3-mo old MissA wore a fetching dress with a black velvet top and a full-circle red plaid tafeta high waisted skirt. Both wore matching white socks with bows and soft black "mary janes". Are they just the cutest or what?!!

When we got back to their house after dinner DW & MissC put together a plate for Santa with cookies, carrots and a bowl of oats for the reindeer. It was all toooo cute!! Great Nana is in the background looking on.

Mom, hubby and I spent the night at a nearby motel, and came back first thing in the morning to see what Santa had brought - the doll house was perfect and it hadn't taken CG & DW toooo long to get it assembled after we left the night before!

Christmas morning always went by too fast when I was a kid, and that doesn't seemed to have changed! All too soon the presents were opened, oooed and aaahhhed over and we took ours out to the car to be taken home. We had a wonderful breakfast then we gathered everyone for the annual Christmas picture and as I look at it again, I realize again how blessed we are!

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The weekend before Christmas CG & DW asked if we would consider coming down to babysit for them, and we were delighted to do that! A month before MissC's 2nd birthday last spring she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes - and taking care of her insulin and food needs has added a whole new layer of responsibility to the regular job of being parents! The doctor had her on insulin shots for a while, and she was a very good sport about them, but DW set out right away to see if there could be a better way for her. She has had an insulin pump now for a few months now and that seems to be working very well for her. She is very patient when mom or dad needs to "talk to her pump" and when she is hungry she asks to be tested so she can eat! She is quite a trooper!

Anyway - since she was diagnosed, it's been a little harder to leave her for a "grown-up" evening out. DW's mom or sister are sometimes unavailable, so they haven't had many date nights in the last few months! We have been learning how to work the pump and just what she should be eating for her meals, so when they asked if we had the evening free, we were pretty excited! We had a whole evening of playing and reading books and hubby made up some pretty amazing stories about Dora and Ariel and Nemo that delighted MissC! MissA is cooing now and she was so fun to cuddle and play with! We decided to just spend the night so their date night didn't have to end early, and got up early the next morning and were back home in time for Sunday School! We had sooo much fun - we're looking forward to doing that again!!