Lydia Grace Barron and Molly Joy Barron

Tonight we went to the Christmas Eve service at church. It's traditionally a family service, so there's no nursery for the kiddos. Lydia did pretty well sitting through the hour long service. We came prepared with her snack and a book and a toy and a blanket, etc. There was a lot of music from the choir, which she seemed to enjoy. She was squirmy at times, but overall, a good little attendee.

After church, we went to Grammy and Poppy's house to have dinner and play. Lydia received one of her Christmas presents while she was there. Do you want to know what it was?

Her very own pet goldfish! Her name is Dorothy. Dorothy is the name of Elmo's goldfish. Lydia sees Dorothy on Elmo's segment of Sesame Street when Grammy is babysitting, and Grammy is convinced Lydia loves Dorothy on the show. Dorothy lives in a simple glass fish bowl, exactly like this one.
When Grammy presented Lydia with her new pet, Lydia was happy! She wanted to see inside the bowl and touch the bowl and to watch Dorothy intently. So cute!

Now I have to tell you the truth... This is actually Dorothy #2 already.

On Wednesday Grammy purchased the original Dorothy... Dorothy #1. By Wednesday evening Dorothy was...well, let's just say not feeling very well. So yesterday Grammy had to purchase Dorothy #2, who so far appears to be much healthier!

After watching Dorothy awhile, Lydia realized that all she was going to do was swim around a bit and then float, so she moved on. Here she is trying to get the lock off the kitchen cabinet. She worked hard on that for awhile.

And randomly lying on the floor, as she does so often. I love it when little girls have no idea they're all dressed up, and they roll all over the floor in their special clothes!

After some more fun and play, Lydia returned to check on Dorothy.

By the time we left Grammy and Poppy's place, it was an hour past Lydia's bedtime. With ice on the roads, it took awhile to get home. About half way there, Lydia konked out. Dorothy #2, however, was probably WIDE awake! She rode home with us, and was probably shaken around a little bit!

Guess what the state of Texas got for Christmas? Snow! And rain, and sleet and ice, and freezing temperatures and 40 mile per hour winds. You never really get pure snow here, but the snow itself did come down pretty hard for several hours this afternoon.