Along Came Aubrey: Trost Christmas and More Santa Visits

Is Christmas really just two days away? I am so, so excited to see Aubrey's face opening up gifts in front of the Christmas tree. I must admit that we (okay....mainly me) may have bought a few too many gifts for Aubrey, but it is so much fun to buy this and that. We will see how she does on Christmas Day. This week was busy with getting those last minute errands ran before the big day, along with a few Christmas festivities.

Santa visited Aubrey at daycare on Monday, so that was a lot of fun. Her teachers said that she was a little bit out of it when it was her turn to see him because he decided to stop right in the middle of nap time. Miss Anne had to wake her up to bring her out to sit on his lap. They wanted to make sure Aubrey didn't miss out on her turn! I do want to say that Aubrey has made quite the friends at daycare and seems to have a great time being there. They do so many activities every day, such as painting, drawing, reading, singing (okay, maybe not Aubrey yet), etc. I do have to admit that I am really looking forward to having two 4-day weekends in a row. I am going to LOVE spending the extra time cuddling and loving up Aubs. I know Daddy is pretty excited for an extra day or two off as well.

Friday was a night of relaxation and spending some quality time with the three of us. It seems by the time Aubrey gets home from spending time with Grandma and Grandpa Trost and Daddy gets home from work, then it is already dinner time about time for Aubrey to go to bed since her bedtime is between 7 and 7:30 every night. We live for the weekends when we can spend more time playing together and getting to spend some real time with each other.

Daddy and I met up with some friends on Saturday night for dinner and to see Christmas lights, so Aubrey stayed the night with Grandma and Grandpa Trost. We had fun enjoying some festivities with our friends, but I was anxious to head out to Yutan on Sunday to see Aubrey. Sunday was a big day because that was the day the Trost clan was going to celebrate Christmas. Daddy, Aubrey and I went to church with Grandma and Grandpa, then we helped Grandma get the house and food ready for the big party. Everyone arrived around 2:00, so it left plenty of time for all eight cousins to play together. It truly is a sight to see and it is even more fun now that Aubrey is moving around. She loves each and every one of her cousins, but I think she is a little skeptical of all the noise and madness at first and takes a little time to warm up to them all.

Santa came to visit us at Grandma and Grandpa Trost's house before we all opened gifts...what a surprise! Aubrey wasn't the least bit happy about it, but at least we were able to get a few pictures together. Then of course it was time to open all the gifts. Grandma does this really neat thing of wrapping each grandchild's gifts in the same wrapping paper so they all know which ones go to which person. I wonder where I get my organizational skills from? :) Aubrey was mostly amazed watching all her cousins open their gifts. When it came time for her to open them, she was interested in the first few, then would get a little annoyed that she couldn't just play with the gifts she already "opened" (Daddy and I did most of the opening, Aubrey was mostly concerned with the bows and ribbon). She had quite a few to open though, so I had to take over after she lost complete interest. Needless to say, we had to keep a few of the gifts at Grandma and Grandpa's house because we couldn't fit it all in the car for the trip home. And this is just the first Christmas! Good thing we have so much open space in our basement. It is going to be filled with Aubrey's toys!

We also had a really big snowstorm this week and I woke up in the middle of the night to find that our power had gone out. It took over 12 hours for it to come on. We were able to dig our way out of our driveway to get to Grandma and Grandpa Trost's house so we could heat up. We made the most of it at home while we could!