We had a nice, quiet Christmas. It seemed like Maria knew it was Christmas — she didn’t sleep well the night before and she was wild on Christmas day! Just goofy and active and in a good mood. She only opened a few of her presents, then a few more the day after, and she even has 2 more that she hasn’t opened yet. She wasn’t quite as into opening the presents this year as she was for her birthday; maybe because most of them were wrapped, rather than in gift bags. She prefers gift bags.
She went for a bike ride with Uncle Andy just before sunset and saw lots of her friends and schoolmates on the way, which is awesome! The AZ Cardinals played an exciting game Christmas evening, lots of phone calls with friends and family, so all-in-all Christmas was good.
Over the weekend, we took Maria for a little hike. Manolis held her arms around his neck, like she was riding piggy back (except of course, her legs were dangling free). It didn’t look too comfortable, but she seemed to like it! We also found out that Maria likes coffee, coke (she drank about half a can of unthickened Coke at 7pm one night — courtesy of her daddy, duh), and candy canes.
