サニーサイドのクリスマスイブ.../Christmas Eve in Sunnyside...

クリスマスの当日にコネチカットにいるからデイブと話し合って土曜日の朝に家族３人と２匹でクリスマスをする事にしました。だから今日はクリスマスイブの 日...やった〜！そして今年初めてみんなの靴下に十分入れる物を用意出来たから余計に楽しみ：）過去５年間はいつも何を入れれば良いのか良くわかんなく て時間切れでか細い靴下をデイブにあげていたのです... でも今年は２人と２匹喜んでくれると良いな〜！
So since we will be in CT on actual Christmas Day we decided to have the family Christmas tomorrow, thus today is our Christmas Eve...Yea! We are very excited! And what's more exciting!? I think I finally succeeded in getting our stockings nicely filled. You see my parents gave us kids Christmas presents every year but stockings were never part of our Christmas morning tradition so the last 5 years Dave has been getting somewhat skinny stockings from me because I never know what to put in it and always ended up not having enough so my goal this year was to do better there... I hope I will have two smiley faces and wagging tails tomorrow:-)

クリスマスイブの今夜はデイブの学校であるダンスパーティーにマディソンを連れて行って来ました。マディソンの初めてのダンスパーティー！去年は妊娠中の私とデイブでコートチェックをしたの覚えてます。また同じ事をする予定だったんだけど今年はマディソンも一緒に... そして良い子にほとんどずっとお昼寝してくれたマディソンはあんなに音がうるさいのにとみんなびっくり：）凄いダンスがうまい兄弟のビデオを撮ったよ...
Okay so on our Christmas Eve, we celebrated by taking Madison to her very first dance party! Dave's school had it and for some reason none of the administration cared enough to be in charge so Dave had to be involved... Last year I remember we worked the coat check and we did it again tonight with Madison in tow...　And she did great! It was so loud in the gym but she was able to pretty much sleep through the entire thing! Dave got busy breaking up dirty dancing kids while Madison slept:-) Two boys(brothers) were quite good so we took a video...





１０時頃にやっと家に着いてその後まずしたのは、これから毎年家族の伝統にしたいと決めたことをしました。というのは短いクリスマスの映画を見ながら家族でゲームをする事。今年はグリンチの映画を見て、ピクチャリカ!って言う新しく出て来たゲームをする事に。ピクチャリカ!ってワルドーを探せに似ている感じです... エリーも一緒にゲームしたいみたい：）マディソンはゲーム版をかじってみてました... 美味しかったのかな！？
We got home from the dance at around 10:00pm and we did our Xmas tradition that we are trying to start with Madison which is to watch a Xmas movie (this year we watched the cartoon version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and open a board game to play as a family... Well, I got us a game called Pictureka! and I'm not quite sure but I think it's similar to Where's Waldo... Ellie is trying to play the game with us... Madison was only interested in tasting the game board...