Hope everyone had a merry Christmas! The twins are still in my belly and we had a very low key Christmas.
We had a nice dinner on Christmas eve:
Lola was so excited by the idea of Santa Claus and opening her presents that she couldn't fall asleep, woke up twice during the night, and was wide awake at 5 am insisting that she would "sit right here" (in front of the Christmas tree) and wait for Santa.
Needless to say, we were opening presents by 6 am.
We also went to a beautiful and festive Christmas party at Maggie and Rose in the afternoon. They did a great job with the space. Lola really enjoyed it, even though she was quite cranky because she was too excited for her afternoon nap as well. Are you seeing a pattern here? Our daughter is a terrible sleeper.
In a first, Lola was very cooperative and let a sparkly glitter tattoo be put on her forearm. She sat solemnly unmoving through the whole thing, and only cried out in dismay after it was all on her arm when she realized she didn't quite like it.
Lola met Santa and didn't cry, but we didn't try to get a picture with him.
She also went to the Central waterfront and wandered around, watching the giant ferris wheel (but not getting into it). Jovie bought her a perfect little Christmas present, an ice cream truck, but Lola demanded to open it before Christmas. And in her retelling to Elmo, Lola explained that she purchased it, at the ferris wheel, when she went shopping.
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Finally, in a completely not glamorous but extremely satisfying experience that was essentially an early Christmas gift, in the first time in years with my fraught battles with PCCW, the internet and cable provider here, I managed to get something to happen that their front office told me was impossible but which their technicians managed to set up for me in the span of half an hour. Rather than run a 100 foot ethernet cable externally through our apartment, the technician was able to use the already installed phone lines to make the connection, such that our second router, which was previously running on wireless signals being transmitted from the main router, could be plugged directly into the port in our bedroom. I can't even tell you how hard it was to get this accomplished. We have been trying to do this for years, including in our previous apartment, but were always told it was not possible.
We had a nice dinner on Christmas eve:
Lola was so excited by the idea of Santa Claus and opening her presents that she couldn't fall asleep, woke up twice during the night, and was wide awake at 5 am insisting that she would "sit right here" (in front of the Christmas tree) and wait for Santa.
In the days leading up to Christmas, Lola was wrapping up her Baumhaus Christmas music camp and playing at Maggie and Rose.
\Finally, in a completely not glamorous but extremely satisfying experience that was essentially an early Christmas gift, in the first time in years with my fraught battles with PCCW, the internet and cable provider here, I managed to get something to happen that their front office told me was impossible but which their technicians managed to set up for me in the span of half an hour. Rather than run a 100 foot ethernet cable externally through our apartment, the technician was able to use the already installed phone lines to make the connection, such that our second router, which was previously running on wireless signals being transmitted from the main router, could be plugged directly into the port in our bedroom. I can't even tell you how hard it was to get this accomplished. We have been trying to do this for years, including in our previous apartment, but were always told it was not possible.
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| Never thought this actually stood a chance in hell of happening. |
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