It’s a good thing New Year’s comes so soon after Christmas, Jillian was having holiday withdrawals. The end of the Christmas season can seem a bit abrupt to a little kid! There was so much building up to the 25th and then it just stops!
We had a fun day playing in the backyard! I had gone to the store earlier for lunch supplies and came home with some party hats and noise makers. The girls had a lot of fun with them… I got a little tired of the noise makers but I couldn’t complain because I brought them home.
In the evening, Adrian and I took Olivia to see the Disney movie Frozen. We decided not to take Jillian because she has a really hard time with movies that could be scary or have socially emotional parts. I think we made the right decision on this one… the wolves and the snow monster were a bit scary, Olivia had to sit on Adrian’s lap. I think she would have had a harder time with the sisters fighting. Jillian has high levels of empathy and things like this really bother her. I LOVED the movie. I thought the writers did a great job making the princesses strong and independent. I love that they poke fun of the princess for (Spoiler Alert) getting engaged after just meeting the guy!
After the movie we met up with my parents who had Jillian and Claire. The daughter of my mom’s friend has a beach house (an on the sand beach house) so we went their for the rest of the night. We were really hesitant to go, we thought we might just grab the girls and go home and spend New Year’s quietly at our house, but when we arrived Jillian was having too much fun! She was playing hide and go seek with the other kids who were about her age. Olivia had already fallen asleep by the time we arrived so she was out. When the ball dropped at midnight, only Jillian was awake to celebrate with me and Adrian (and the others at the party of course) . We left the party by 12:15 haha we were tired and Jillian was done and ready to sleep. It only took her 2 minutes in the ride home to fall asleep. Overall it was a nice way to send off 2013 and welcome 2014.
