Gramma and Papa had their Christmas Party last weekend too so we headed to the coast. Daddy was actually able to join us. Gramma had gluten free crackers and brownies and we made gluten free m&m cookies. Papa also made gluten free cinnamon raisin/craisin bread. The girls loved it, but Adia told him to leave the craisins out next time. Leia started picking them out and handing them to me even though she LOVES craisins. I guess she doesn't think they belong in bread either. The girls were great with all the people and Mira even started flirting with some of them. They were good about all the Christmas decorations. Mira quickly learned how to use one of the trains and Leia preferred the more complicated one. Once again, our biggest issue was Adia trying to play house with Gramma's Christmas villages.
The twins had fun pestering the cat. The cat actually seems to really like the attention, but accidentally scratched Adia and Leia. Adia had been trying to play with the cat with a cat toy and she got too close. She was hysterical, but Daddy calmed her and washed off the scratch. Leia got slightly scratched when the cat gently put her paw on Leia's shoulder and Leia pulled away. She was startled, but not really injured.
We had a few hilarious moments while we were there too. To keep the twins entertained since most of their toys had been put away for the party, Papa hooked bells on them. Mira thought it was the coolest thing ever and was dancing around the house, jingling. When Leia saw Mira, she wanted to do it too. He hooked the bells in the back of her pants like a tail and she started spinning in circles. It was hilarious. She so reminded us of a dog chasing its tail. It was just too funny. She would then dance around some more just to hear the jingling. When it was time to take the bells off, she started screaming.
The girls are still enjoying all their new room. They skate and play and slide around on the laminate floor. Adia pretends it's her skating rink.
On the rare occasion the twins aren't trapped in the playroom, they like taking my kitchen apart. They really like the kitchen cart. I only put stuff in it they can play with and not break so they like taking it all out and putting it back. They think the door on it is a lot of fun too.
Mostly the girls have just been playing and discovering toys they haven't seen in awhile.
Adia and I have made cookies quite a few times. We made chocolate chip last week and tonight we made gingerbread cookies. We're decorating tomorrow. She says she can't wait.
We're still working on the house too, but we had an unexpected problem pop up last week. I noticed some water in front of the dishwasher and when I wiped it up, it didn't just dry up. I pushed on the floor in front of the dishwasher and more water appeared. When I opened the dishwasher, there was a ton of standing water and I knew something was up. I left a towel on the floor that night because Gramma and Papa would be there in the morning and Papa said he'd look at it. Well, apparently our dishwasher had something really wrong with it and it had been leaking for quite a long time. It ruined 10 boards of laminate flooring! Papa had to carefully remove a big chunk that he had recently installed and figure out how to reinstall new flooring. It was horrible. They also bought us a new dishwasher for Christmas. So, while it's awesome to have a new dishwasher, it meant that he didn't get to finish the projects he had hoped to finish that day. Another bonus, the kitchen now smells even less like cat. Once we had the dishwasher outside, we discovered it smelled really really bad!
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