It’s been a fun, fun Hannkuah week here in the Land of Cheltenham. Steven, Sammy and Amaya love lighting the candles and they especially love presents. Amaya would stand at the fireplace mantle where we had the menorahs and some gifts and say “Ha-ka. Ha-ka.”
Here are the kids sporting new Captain America shirts from my triplet mom Secret Sister. (More on that later.)
Cutest super hero squad ever!
Outtakes of a fussy Bobo.
On Monday morning, SSA were excited to open their Hanukkah present from Megan.
The Little People farm plus a tractor and a ton of bonus animals! So much fun! Thank you, Megan!
All year I’ve had a secret sister from my 2014 triplet group. She’s the mom who had the bottle of wine waiting in our hotel room in Las Vegas in May. Well it was time for the reveal and she totally outdid herself! In addition to a travel book on Iceland for me, my secret sister Jen sent a gift for each night of Hanukkah for Steven, Sammy and Amaya. They’ve had so much fun opening these gifts and she really knew what they’d love.
We also opened our Little People bus from Auntie Anita and Uncle Josh. Steven is obsessed. Bus! Bus!
On Saturday, we FaceTimed with Grandpa Home Home and Grandma Betsy to open more presents. They’re a hit! Especially the trains!
Back to earlier in the week, we had a trio in their bee PJs.
The next morning I was just lazy enough that everyone got diaper changes and new pants but we all wore our bee shirts to music. Bzzzzzzzzz.
We had school last week. Grandma Sunshine was visiting and was able to join Steven, Sammy and Amaya.
Megan had a doctor appointment on Friday morning but we were lucky to have Stephanie come to babysit for the first few hours of the day. The kids love their Steffie!
Amazingly, the warm weather has let us get outside! In December! In Michigan! I’ve been so depressed about the brutal cold that was coming but I’m officially over it. After such a mild November and early December, we can all take a little bit of bitter cold if we absolutely have to.
On Saturday, Jason and I tried a new place with the kids. Jungle Java has food and coffee for the grown-ups and a play area for the children. It wasn’t great. The toddler area is too small for our adventurers but the older kid area is too advanced. Plus, there’s a lot of space to run and wreak havoc. We had Steven pulling people’s shoes out of the bins while Sammy was running behind the food counter. I think we’ll probably wait to go back here unless we have a 1:1 adult to kid ratio. But we’d never know unless we tried!
Once again, on Sunday it was warm enough to get outside twice. We went for a morning walk and then spent some time out on the deck.
Bubbles are a big hit around here.
Just a few more photos from the week.
Baths!
Tacos!
This week, Steven’s photos are an assortment of pictures of him cuddling his monkey, Mortimer, while he sleeps.
Here he’s not asleep yet and is cuddling his new book about cars and trucks.
The Sam Man
And Miss Amaya
Have a great week!