Hey there Sweetness –

Well, we just arrived home from your seventh trip. This time we drove to Mason, Michigan for Christmas to see Grandma & Grandpa Tatro. Uncle Matt flew in from Vermont as well. It was so wonderful to spend all day, every day, for a whole week with you. I’m sure your friends at daycare missed you, but we were sure glad to get the time with you.

The drive to MI was great! You slept almost the whole way! We stopped for dinner and took time to play and explore the Christmas lights, and then you were back to sleep.

Some highlights of the trip were Christmas church service (you and I studied the nativity scene in the back as I told you the Christmas story for the first time), the beautiful lights and ornaments on Gma & Gpa’s tree, playing with new toys like the musical cube Uncle Matt bought you, and seeing Uncle Mark & Aunt Bi and their new home in Jackson! You showed everyone your crawling ability and how you enjoy to pick things up to eat with your fingers. One night Gma & Gpa watched you while your Daddy and I went to a movie. You slept through most of that, but I hear you woke up for a bit to check things out and make sure everything was okay.

Christmas is the celebration of Baby Jesus coming into the world- He was a baby just like you. He came to live with us to show us how very much He loves us. We are so blessed, Miss Maya, to have such a loving God who cares so much about each one of us! That truly is the greatest gift of all!

I love you, Sweet Pea. And I look forward to celebrating many, many more Christmas’s with you!