Snowflakes: Star Wars Style

One of PE's coworkers gave him a packet of Star Wars Snowflake designs. He brought them home and I had a new hobby for the next month.

 I had to use an x-acto knife to cut out most of it. It was very difficult, and the only reason I did them all was because I am a completionist. 

Seriously though, I began cursing PE's coworker for giving them to us. I could only handle doing about 1 a night, because it would make me sick. But to be fair, doing just about anything makes me sick these days, especially in the evenings. (Why is it called morning sickness?) But as I would lay on the couch too sick to do anything, it would drive me slightly crazy that I still had more snowflakes to cut out. PE did cut out one of them, and 2 of them are ones I made a couple years ago.

Kudos to you if you know what they all are!

Christmas

This year we kept the presents in the play pen instead of under the tree. After P1 went to bed we put everything under the tree for Christmas morning!

Santa set-up some Jake & the Neverland Pirates Duplos for P1, and was even so nice as to set up the Star Wars Mr. Potato Heads that we got on Christmas Eve.

P1 walking in on Christmas Morning!

P1 enjoyed his duplos, and he really loves to shoot the little cannon.

 P1 also got some coloring books:

P1 also got his very own laptop! Just kidding. But it was his favorite thing to play with at Grandma and Grandpa's house. We spent the afternoon at PE's parents. P1 was thoroughly spoiled with many books, and a snowsuit.

Merry Christmas!!!

Christmas Eve

 On Christmas Eve morning, I made french toast, and P1 REALLY wanted to help me cook. He would get quite upset when I put him on the floor so I could finish cooking. So after breakfast, I let him play with the spatula and griddle. The spatula was his new best friend all day long. He even took it outside and played in the snow with it!

Christmas wouldn't be complete without some yummy gingerbread men! P1 loves to eat them, and he really wanted to eat ALL of them.

Playing video games with Dad:

We spent Christmas Eve with my family. P1 loved hanging out in the family room with all the remotes. (And he knows where Grandma hides them!)

Opening his first present. Unlike at his birthday, he actually helped unwrap some presents this time!

Playing with the Star Wars Mr. Potato Heads my parents gave us:

P1 really liked his toy remote from his grandparents. PE isn't too thrilled with how noisy it is:

Traditional reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by Grandpa:

Dickens Christmas Festival

For Christmas we took my family to the Dickens Christmas Festival. It was fun to sample all the many different food items for sale. P1 enjoyed sticking his head in the many photo booths they had.

P1 really enjoyed the dogs the had the the Pet Adoption booth:

We ended up buying a small bottle of Pear Lime Cinnamon balsamic vineger, and a wool llama jacket for P1. Sadly, the bag was dropped in the parking lot and the bottle broke. So we ended up with no balsamic vinegar, and one well-marinated wool jacket!