Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve day, Marc, Frances, Alice, Claire, Ryan, and I went to the Discovery Gateway Children's Museum. With so many kids out of school, we expected a bigger crowd, but I guess everyone was finishing shopping or getting ready for Christmas. There were only a handful of other families there, so we pretty much had immediate access to whichever activity we wanted.We spent a lot of time with the colored balls and tubes. The girls took turns feeding the balls into the tubes from the top platform, and catching them as they came out of the tubes below.

Everyone's favorite...the horse...

Followed closely by splashing in the water...

Alice loved shopping (apparently she loves fruit) and being pushed on the farm tractor...Claire loved playing house with Ryan in the pint-sized playhouse...(Christmas spoiler: Marc & Frances gave me an annual pass to the Discovery Gateway museum! WOO HOO!!! I see more visits with Ryan & the girls in our future!)

Later that night, we continued a couple of other family traditions, getting new jammies and reading the Christmas story from the book of Luke.