Boston

We recently took the girls to the Museum of Science in Boston, which had a special PIXAR exhibit.  The girls had a great time riding the train down, checking out the exhibits at the museum, and learning how PIXAR makes their movies.  Afterward, we had  a yummy dinner at Fogo de Chao.

Kenzie's Physical Therapy

Kenzie’s physical therapy is going well. She’s already met several of her goals. She sits up much better. Her side to side protective reflexes (putting her hand down when she loses her balance sitting) are good. She needs to work on her back protective reflexes as she still is toppling backward and not catching herself. She can crawl now, but we need to work on her opening her hands and putting them flat. She tends to fist them as she crawls. She can also pull herself up to kneel and she like to kneel when she is playing now. She can pull herself to stand when assisted. Her next goals are to pull herself up to stand on her own, stand on her own for several seconds, and cruise (take steps while holding onto something) 5 steps side to side. My favorite part of PT is watching her “walk”on the treadmill. She is so cute in her little harness…

We hope everyone had a great Christmas! We sure did! The weekend after we got back from Florida was the family Christmas party at the PD. Kenzie was fascinated by Santa, but wouldn’t sit on his lap by herself. She did want that present though. After she thoroughly checked out Santa she tried to snatch her present right off his lap!

Kaitlyn loved her present and was shocked because she “didn’t tell anyone that she wanted it”. Kenzie’s present was a big hit with all the other kids. I had a bunch coming up and trying to play with it.

Kenzie and her future husband swapped presents for awhile.

After the tree went up I took my annual Christmas pictures of the girls. I love how these came out, but we went with a family photo for this year’s Christmas card. 

Santa came to the last Pirates game before Christmas. Kenzie actually sat on his lap! Then she grabbed a big fistful of his beard. She still managed to stay on the nice list though as evidenced by the pile of gifts she got! 

After Mass on Christmas Eve… 

Santa came! 

Opening presents Christmas morning! The girls loved everything they got. One of Kenzie’s favorites was her new doll. Kaitlyn loved her police car. Mommy loved the girls’ Swedish dresses! 

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the dresses! Kaitlyn was so excited to put hers on. The girls wore their dresses to church on Sunday. They got a bunch of compliments. We have to head up to New Sweden and show them off next summer! They looked adorable!