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• Watching the Christmas story told by children
  
• The girls asking to watch it over and over “Baby yasus! Star!”
• The star: It just makes me grin
• New vocabulary word: “Party”
• Playing at the museum with grandparents
• Bronwyn and Papa riding a stationary bike
• Carrying Aerie in the Ergo while Baba holds the boy
• Yummy food from dad
• watching girls decorate gingerbread cookies
• Aerie loving the art project-ness of the cookies

• Bronwyn spooning frosting in her mouth and sampling all her cookies

• Shared laughs with Papa

• Laughter and raspberry noises at the girls waking up with gift bags filled with elephants in their cribs
• Girls stopping all Christmas unwrapping to play with their Goodnight Moon game
• Playing with the car ramp
• Me collapsing with the flu down for a nap
• Having that freedom
• Derek having Monday off so I could rest some more
• Lots of grace to deal with screaming Sedryn who doesn’t approve of me eating ice cream before bed.
• Hearing the girls chant “Lobby lobby lobby!” when I told them we’re going to Hobby Lobby
• Treking over to Target to look for how to spend Christmas money from the Maine grandarents
• Stumbling on owl toddler sheets/comforter
• Girls all excited about “bay gel sheets” (big girl)
• Going home with the excitement and spontaneously converting their cribs to toddler beds
• More joy over big girl beds
• When B got tired she informed me “I nap”
• Laughter as B hollared at A “obey obey OBEY!” about staying in her bed
• Only 45 minute struggle to keep them in
• Excitement to tell day about “bagel beds”
• Listening to B tell A “no cry!” every time we closed the door
• Girls sleeping soundly
• Bedtime
• 1 hour of flirt time with a boy who cried every time i stopped talking to him
• Laughing as Sedryn busted out real tears every time Bronwyn yelled “No cry!” at him  I think she scared him or hurt his feelings
• Long awaited date night
• Ruthie, Mandy , & Matt enjoying the wiggles
• Hearing about the girls’ deltight at Ruthie playing their favorite song on the violin
• Ruthie dealing with the curveball of toddler beds with such grace- even with naked diaperless kiddos running around at almost 9pm
• Just talking with Derek
• Fondue!
• Chatting with Mandy, Ruthie, and Derek
• Going over to paint at Ruthie’s new home the next day
• Secret toddler/Sedryn tree art project
• Ruthie’s near tears of joy when the girls delivered her artwork
• Library fun
• Derek leaving a hysterical message to Brad about Ruthie’s “A Pirate’s Night Before Christmas”
• Finding the book on Julia’s Pintrest later that day
• IHOP with the family for Derek’s birthday
• Girls going to sleep in under 10 minutes both nap times today
• Sedryn’s big boy quilt fabic- makes me smile
• Hearing this broadcast on Focus on the Family . A great way to start the epic toddler bed ordeal.
• 4.5 day weekend with Derek
• Moby wrap for unhappy baby
• Finally getting to bake Beef Portobello Turnovers that I’ve had the filling in the freezer for over a month waiting
• watching and overtired drowsy Bronwyn roll out of her toddler bed after extreme couple of nights of toddler bed drama
• Girls who eat spinach
• A partner who sits with me as we fight the girls over staying in bed