Ikea and New Year's Eve

One of our Christmas presents was an Ikea gift card to help us get a new dining table. So we made the trip out there on New Year's Eve. The kids had a blast, and P3 was in heaven. He loved climbing on all the furniture. And I mean ALL of the furniture.

I already had the table picked out that I wanted, but once we were there we became undecided. In the end we went with a different table that will work better for us. We ate lunch there, and P3 would not eat anything. I had mashed potatoes on my plate, and he likes mashed potatoes. So I forced a spoonful into his mouth, and he lost it. He was sobbing and refused to swallow his food. We gave him a drink of juice hoping to help him swallow. At this point in time, he throws up into my hands. I was very unhappy. We got everything cleaned up, and then went to pick up the table and leave. While we were in the warehouse area, P3 followed his sibling's bad example and started playing behind the boxes of furniture. He refused to come out, so I went in after him and as I was dragging him out, I hit my head on one of the beams. And it really hurt. I was not a happy mama.

We dropped Dad off at work and headed home to get things ready for our New Year's Eve party. We had invited a family over to celebrate with us, and my house still needed to be cleaned up. When we got home at 4:30, the garage door wouldn't open. Sometimes the remote doesn't work, so I got out and tried the keypad. Still nothing. As I'm trying it again, someone drives by and tells me that the power is out! And here is the really sad part. I lost my house key a few months back, and so I had a new key made. Well, the new key would not open the deadbolt. It would go in the lock, but wouldn't turn it. I was almost in tears.We had company coming over at 6 and we were locked out of the house. I called PE to vent, and just as we were finishing talking, I tried the garage button one more time, and it opened!!! Hallelujah! The power was back on!

We were able to get the house presentable, and we had a fun night with our friends. PE brought home pizza from The Pie. We had cake and ice cream because it was also the mom AND dad's birthday. The kids had fun playing with glow sticks, and we played games until the kids were getting cranky and needed to go to bed. It was a fun evening.

After they left, Dad built our new table and P3 was very interested in helping.

Happy New Year!

Post Christmas

 PE took the week off of work, so it was nice to just relax at home and play with our new toys.

Santa left watercolors in the big kids' stockings.

P1 was constantly building Legos. He has quite the Pokemon Lego collection now.

Grandma and Grandpa came over to see all of our new toys:

More painting and coloring:

This adorable boy loves his blankie and his books. Peek-a WHO? is one of his favorites books.

 

Playing Peek-a-boo:

Christmas

Once again, Santa found our house and we had very happy children Christmas morning:

P3's haul: new Duplo train

P2's haul: Elena of Avalor doll and an Alolan Vulpix plush

P1's haul: Pokemon legos and a Pikipek plush

For the family: Nintendo Switch with Pokemon Let's Go Eevee (as requested by P2), and Smash Brothers:

For Mom and Dad: Legos 

 Finding goodies in their stockings:

Showing P3 his new train:

Opening presents from family: 

The disaster area: 

Enjoying their new toys and candy (P3's favorite part):

We each had a giant egg in our stockings. When you opened them, they were filled with slime and pieces of a dragon/beast. P1 and P2 did not care for the slime at all, but P3 loved playing in it. P1 liked his dragon once all the slime was washed off.

Building Legos:

P1 and P2 each got a Treasure X, which is basically a hard brick of sand that you dig through to find treasure.

We went and visited great-grandma at the care center, and then we went over to my parent's house for more festivities. P1 got more Pokemon legos, and P2 got dolls, "fancy" shoes, and cute clothes. P3 got lots of clothes and these On the Go Water Wow books, where you basically paint with water. Grandpa also gave them a real walkie talkie set, and P3 walked around with that all night.

At the end of the day when the kids were getting ready for bed, P1 told me that the day had been "magical". I guess you can't do better than that!

Merry Christmas!