2020 Christmas

 We drove out to Gtowne on Christmas eve to visit grandparents through the sliding glass doors.

The kids enjoyed doughnut holes and Christmas cookies out in the back yard.  B and L got remote control cars that have squishy tires and can flip over.   S and C also gave us a globe!  Now the kids can learn that greenland isn't bigger than the United States!  I had been shopping for a globe for a while but couldn't decide what would be best.  So the gift of the globe was 2 fold.  The globe is great and S and C are great at researching items, so that burden of deciding was a great gift to me.

Over at Grandma L's house we picked grapefruit and opened presents on her back porch.  L held to his pencil box as a prized posession.

We planned to do a sign language caroling to our deaf neighbors.  M had a piano lesson to teach and by the end of that, it was raining.  So we did a facetime caroling instead.  Then we recorded this to send out on Facebook and emails so that lots of people could enjoy a caroling from us.  Win win!  The joy of sharing a happy song and brightening people's day without too much cold, travel, etc...

Pizza, garlic rolls, apples and a giant chocolate cake!  This is our traditional Christmas menu.

G turned 16 and we made this gigantic swiss roll Rocket. 

We measured G and he is within 1 inch of E!  The doctors told us that he would probably be 5'6" which was tall enough that they would not prescribe growth hormones when G was still so small and we were worried.  At 5'7" and coming from a family of late bloomers, I'm confident he will be closer to 6'.  We'll see.