The basement downstairs. Jeff & Allicia were out of town so we had free range of the house!
Saturday we woke up to more snow! We dug our car out and put chains on it and went to G.G.'s house where we opened presents and ate lunch.
We headed back around 2 PM, Guy needed to be at the church at 3:30 because he was doing sound for the Christmas Eve service. Nico and I picked Brianna up and we all went to the Service together. It was a lovely service and Nico kept asking when it was time to go to bed because he wanted to wake up on Christmas!
We had a bit of a Christmas miracle with one of Nico's presents. He had asked Santa for a box of 50 Hot Wheels cars and he told me Friday morning that he was so excited that Santa was bringing him a box of cars. I tried telling him that Santa may not bring him all the gifts he asked for. We've also told him the truth about Santa every year, but he really doesn't want to believe us. Anyway, we did NOT get him a box of 50 Hot Wheels cars and I was feeling kind of sad that he was expecting it from Santa. So, on to the Christmas miracle...
Guy was downstairs in the cellar looking for the chess pieces for the chess board we had pulled out, when he came across a taped up shoe box. He opened it up and it was PACKED full of Hot Wheels! We brought it upstairs and joked, "Wouldn't it be funny if there were exactly 50 cars in here" Well, guess what? There were exactly 50.
We wrapped it up from Santa and when Nico opened it he had no idea that he used to own all of those cars, they were like brand new to him. This was by far the present he played with the most on Christmas morning. He was so excited about all his cars that he wanted me to set up my video camera and make a video of him showing off his cars, and then send it to everyone in the world. I figured YouTube was close enough to sending it to everyone in the world, so that's what I did. The video is 40 minutes long so I decided to cut it into 5 minute segments. Not sure I'll ever post more than Part 1 though. I posted it and he was happy :) You can see the 5 minute Part 1 at the end of this entry.
Sunday morning was fun. Christmas! Nico set the alarm for 6 AM because that's when he wanted to wake up, but, nope, he was up at 4:30!! We laid in bed and sang Christmas carols for 30 minutes until 5 AM, when Nico and I got up and he looked at all his presents under the tree, then opened his stocking.
The chess board my brother Jonny got for me many years ago, it is etched out of marble! We told Nico where it came from and that we pulled it out on Christmas because we knew he wanted to play.
I made cinnamon rolls for breakfast, tradition from when I was younger! They were super yummy.
Before adding the glaze
After breakfast we opened gifts!
Playing with his cars
We now have an Echo Dot in our house, thank you Grandparents Russell! You can talk to this device, her name is Alexa, and it is linked to our Amazon Prime account. We can ask her to set timers, tell jokes, play music, and she even knew the answer to a joke that Nico told her. The most brilliant use of it so far has been in the playing of music. Because we have Amazon Prime we can listen to streaming music for free, so Nico tells her to play his favorite band (Capital Kings) and she puts all their songs on shuffle, and then he dances. Tonight over dinner Nico asked her to play dinner music, and she chose a latin music station. heehee.
Oh, the point where the Echo Dot and the Bird Matching game connect - We right away started using the Echo Dot to play lullaby music at night for Nico to fall asleep to. One of the songs that first night was one that Guy recognized. It's called Australian Lullaby, it's about a Kookaburra. Nico made the connection that kookaburra was one of the birds in the matching game. Now every night we listen to Australian Lullaby on repeat while he falls asleep. It's a pleasant song, there are no words in the version we listen to, it is just piano.
We finished up on Sunday watching Elf downstairs while eating popcorn. It was a very nice visit and putting together the video tonight has made me already miss them! Can't wait to see them again!
Sunday evening after we said goodbye to the Grandparents Russell, Guy put a log on the fire and we sat in the living room to read the Christmas story from the Bible. (Eek - forgot to do that in the morning!)
Sunday afternoon we were also planning on seeing the Grandparents Salisbury, but they got SNOWED IN! They had SO much snow they couldn't get out! It was definitely a white christmas this year! But we did get to see Papa on Monday when he stopped by!
When cleaning up today I found a piece of paper that I had recorded one of Nico's prayers on.
Prayer that Nico prayed Dec 3rd, 2016:
"Dear Jesus, I pray you heal Daddy while he's sleeping, and I pray you heal me, too, because my tummy really hurts. It's a job only for God. And Thank you for my parents. In Jesus' name, Amen."
It's a job only for God! :) God has answered our prayers for Nico's tummy healing. He is getting better and better and better. Some of his health issues are resolving. Food is still restricted, and it may always be that way for him (gluten, sugar), but he has come a long way in only a few months. Praise God!
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