2nd day of Christmas

Today was mostly a home day, aside from a morning birthday party for Kate and church for Jack. Back at home, I spent a whole lot of time watching football, and Kate and Jack spent a lot of time.... playing. It's a big deal, because they don't always just, you know, play with toys. Together!

Their first big toy activity was, uh, multiple wooden Nativity scenes we've collected over the years. We have them set them up each year, which is fun for them. But today they decided they'd play with all the characters like they were action figures.

Kate: "I'm going to be the baby Jesus!"

Jack (putting one of the wise men's robes on a cow): "It's ....Supercow! Yay, Supercow!....." He held the cow up and had it fly around the room.

Kate proceeded to have other Nativity figures bring presents to the Baby Jesus. Toys, mostly. Because, you know, baby. So the wise men brought Jesus a puppy and a small ball, rather than say myrrh or frankincense.

Jack enjoyed playing with Nativity figures from different sets, and thus of different sizes. "Look, it's a giant version of ME," he had one Joseph saying to another Joseph. "Look, it's a little version of me," said the second one.

Later in the afternoon, they played with the Peppa Pig camping trip set. I think this was prompted by Emily helping Kate clean her room, and they found it. Suddenly it was Kate's favorite toy again, and they had a blast with it. I only caught bits and pieces, because the camping trek went from Kate's room, to the playroom, and back again. Stopovers in the kitchen on the way.

At the end of the day, it was time to put the recycling out, and since we were outside, and it was Sunday, we played some football. It was nearly pitch black, but the football was half orange, so we could half see it. We threw it back and forth, and Jack tried to bring every catch back for a touchdown, for about 20 minutes without anyone getting hit in the eye since they couldn't see anything. And then we went in, ate dinner, watched some football players who weren't nearly as good as we were, and called it a night.