Merry Christmas!

While our Christmas/New Year festivities are far from over (we are celebrating next Tuesday with Greg's whole family when his sister and her husband make it into town), we have had enough fun to warrant a blog.  We spent both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with Greg's parents.  We enjoyed fondue on Christmas Eve and a traditional Christmas dinner at our house on Christmas Day.  Our kids will think we are Jewish because we have turned this holiday season into about 12 days of celebration.  They have opened presents seemingly everyday and will continue to do so through next week.  Santa came to our house and Aubrey was thrilled because not only did he get her exactly what she wanted but he also ate up the cookies we left and the reindeer gnawed away at the carrots.  Nathan was most impressed with the match box cars he got and we all had fun zooming them across the floor.  Christmas and kids is a magical combination.  

On their way back home from Montana, my whole family spent the night here last night.  More celebrating!  We each opened another gift, had another big meal, and stayed up too late talking.  I also decided that in the gift department I was deeply regretting the MagnaDoodle we got for Nathan.  You know, one of those screens you write on using a magnetic pen?  Who would have thought that both children would love it with an unending passion and that I would spend hours of every day mediating whose turn it was to use it, how much sharing should be required, and how on earth to hide the dang thing so I could get some peace .  I am seriously contemplating buying a second one, just to preserve my sanity.

On a side note, yep, still pregnant.  Measuring HUGE.  Big enough that the doc once again brought up another ultrasound and the possibility of induction.  I am NOT IN FAVOR of an induction but need to stop measuring so stinking enormous if I want to avoid that conversation.  I will be 39 weeks at my next appointment and I think more decisions will be made then.  In the meantime I am large, crabby, and done done done done done.  I have never measured this big with any of my pregnancies and we are all predicting a large baby.  Let's all say a little prayer for a 2007 baby!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas and the time spent with family.  Happy New Years!