December 22, 2006

The girls with Santa

Christmas is fast approaching! I wrapped a few more gifts today that are under the tree. The girls are very excited about Santa and wrapping presents. Leah has school yet today but I am on break already! On Sunday we enjoyed watching Leah and Chloe in the church Christmas program. Leah was not very excited to be a part of it and started out by pouting through their first number. After she got going a bit it was fine. Chloe enjoyed every minute of the program. She was the youngest child in it and had a great time. On Tuesday Leah had her school program. We are used to her doing more people watching than singing when she is in front of people, but she did a great job singing away. The girls have seen Santa a few times this year. This all began when we were at Disney World and he visited at Give Kids the World Village where we stayed. This past Sunday night we were invited to a supper party in Denver at the Bohlmann's and Santa made a surprise visit there. On Tuesday he stopped by Leah's program as well and he even remembered Leah's name! Chloe reminds us every day that we need to be asleep for Santa to come and we cannot come downstairs during the night. This may be tricky considering Reeve will need to eat, so we are agreeing with whatever Chloe says and then doing our own thing. We are all looking forward to Christmas break. We do not have a lot of plans, but will see both of our families over Christmas and will also do some shopping, reading, and maybe even go out to see Charlotte's Web. Chris and I will celebrate our 9th anniversary on the 27th, which is also my birthday. I might even try to get a few Christmas cards out, although mine will be more like Epiphany cards.

On January 4 we head to Iowa City for a CT scan and blood work. We have been praying for a boring, routine check-up - a clean CT and low, low AFP. Please keep Leah in your prayers as well during this busy holiday season, that she can remain healthy and cancer-free. Last year at this time we spent the entire month of December in the hospital and came home on Christmas Eve day. We are enjoying this year so much more and pray that we have many normal, happy, healthy days ahead of us in 2007 as well.

Merry Christmas to everyone!