Christmas!

 Well this post is a long time coming.  I just want to write a little about our Christmas this year because I think we will want to remember how we celebrated christmas during the pandemic.  

This Christmas we didn't go anywhere or see any one, it was just our family in our house.  The previous weeks we made an effort to make goodies and and carol for our neighbors, but we were pretty secluded on christmas itself.  Santa brought the kids too many treats and an Elsa castle to go with all their other princess castles.  

This was the christmas of Building.  We got so many building things:  Duplos, linkin' logs, bristle blocks, magnetic building blocks (two varieties), mega blocks,etc, etc.  We want our girls to become engineers and architects, and we just were not getting there with all these princess toys, so now they can focus and building things. (We also got lego for emma's birthday !).  Instead of wrapping up all of these blocks, we put one block from 3 of the sets in a box and had them unwrap the box with a single piece.  Then when the girls were confused, we had them all go downstairs.  Through the night me and Amy build a town with all the different things.  It was pretty impressive and I think it was a fun surprise for everyone! 













Here is  recent village they built with their blocks (Jan 28, 2021) This one has a train that goes all around the town




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  1. Amy MichelleFebruary 28, 2021 at 7:37 PM

    I liked your idea to just put one block in a box and then have a city waiting for them downstairs! But let's be honest, you did most of the engineering down there while I focused on the Christmas show we were watching. We were down there so long...we might have watched TWO Christmas shows!!

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