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Christmas, part 1

We started Andie's first Christmas celebrations last week by dressing her up for a holiday party at a neighbor's house on Friday.





We figured we should milk the holiday costume as much as we could, since who knows how many years she'll allow us to do this to her, so we continued by dressing her up again for daycare on Thursday. Janet put her Santa hat on to match Andie.





On Thursday evening we attended the marine lab holiday party, and showed off Andie's costume some more.









On Saturday, we celebrated Christmas with Nana and Papa.








New ornament for the tree


Kristin and Jason got Papa a fun game called "Doody Head"...


Kristin reads the instructions

Must play by the rules!

Papa pitches a doody

Doody doge



We had to stop playing the Doody Head game after too long because it turned out Andie was afraid of the hats ... or maybe just of her mom and Papa ...

Andie loved her new walker from Nana and Papa, and she learned how to use it very quickly! She even figured out how to turn it around when she ran into the wall.



Nana made some delicious paella for dinner.





Andie continues having fun playing with her new toys, especially her new walker!


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