{"id":5246,"date":"2011-12-11T22:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T04:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2011-12-11T22:28:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T04:28:31","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/?p=5246","title":{"rendered":"It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eleanor celebrated her first Christmas of 2012 this week with Grandma and Grandpa.\u00a0 She started out the week with a visit to the\u00a0train exhibit at the Botanical Gardens.\u00a0 The trains were nice, but Eleanor was mostly interested in the large glass doors.\u00a0 We also took our official 16 months picture this week – and on Saturday I was excited to tell everyone that Eleanor had mastered stacking some larger Lego type blocks (15 blocks high), but Mom informed me that Eleanor had been doing this for a little while.\u00a0 I guess she didn’t want to let on so that I wouldn’t stop building the towers for her :)\u00a0 Eleanor was much more impressed with the tree once we got lights and ornaments on it, and she now likes to point out the ornament that has the family Christmas picture from last year on it.\u00a0 On Saturday, Eleanor opened some Christmas presents, and unwrapped her first package.\u00a0 The paper and the box were quite a bit of fun by themselves, but she was thrilled with her new tot-sized piano and also with her train set.\u00a0 She sang her “duet” with a piano accompaniment, and spent a good hour playing with the new trains.\u00a0 On Sunday, we opened a few more presents and she had a fun afternoon with her new dump truck and shopping cart.\u00a0 She also learned to say “Ho Ho Ho” for Santa Clause!\u00a0 Fun!<\/p>\n