This year for New Year's Freddy* and I thought it would be fun to let the girls stay up until midnight to experience New Year's celebrating. We spent the day at OMSI and came home to play games, eat Chex mix and watch movies until midnight. The girls did awesome! Freddy teased that whoever fell asleep first would find their underwear in the freezer, but no one fell asleep! They all stayed awake, in fairly decent moods, might I add. Maybe we already had such messed up sleep schedules that it didn't phase them. Natalie was very interested and confused about the whole "New Year" thing. The concept of months and years is hard to grasp when even a week seems like a long time. (o: No matter how we tried to explain it, she still didn't get it, but soon she decided she didn't care and any excuse for a party is good enough for her. (o: When the magical hour arrived, we banged pots, shot confetti poppers and watched the illegal fireworks someone behind us shot off. (o: The girls were so proud to have stayed up all the way until the next day and expected to see the sun any minute after midnight. (o: They all slept good that night and I think we woke up around 10 a.m. the next day! A great way to start the new year!
Here's a few photos from our exciting Yahtzee game!
This year for New Year's Freddy* and I thought it would be fun to let the girls stay up until midnight to experience New Year's celebrating. We spent the day at OMSI and came home to play games, eat Chex mix and watch movies until midnight. The girls did awesome! Freddy teased that whoever fell asleep first would find their underwear in the freezer, but no one fell asleep! They all stayed awake, in fairly decent moods, might I add. Maybe we already had such messed up sleep schedules that it didn't phase them. Natalie was very interested and confused about the whole "New Year" thing. The concept of months and years is hard to grasp when even a week seems like a long time. (o: No matter how we tried to explain it, she still didn't get it, but soon she decided she didn't care and any excuse for a party is good enough for her. (o: When the magical hour arrived, we banged pots, shot confetti poppers and watched the illegal fireworks someone behind us shot off. (o: The girls were so proud to have stayed up all the way until the next day and expected to see the sun any minute after midnight. (o: They all slept good that night and I think we woke up around 10 a.m. the next day! A great way to start the new year!
Here's a few photos from our exciting Yahtzee game!
The game of Yahtzee takes great concentration!
1 comment:
My kids stayed up till midnight for the 1st time too. We were in UT with the cousins and they did great. Kora wanted to go to bed 30 minutes before D-day but changed her mind later. Cole, the stinker, went to bed around 1-2a.m. (I think...he was at another house so I don't know) and he got up around 6 a.m. Cole was a little "sensitive" the next day...understandably though. Wish mine had slept in like yours!
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