December 25th: Christmas Day
Today was SO wonderful! Serenity and DZ woke up around 6:45 and started sorting presents. Then we took a few snuggly pictures while they tried to wait patiently for Maia to wake up. Then I let them open their homemade present for the year, scrapbooks of all their birthday parties. Eric read Donovan's to him while I looked through Serenity's with her. They love them and I loved looking through all those memories together!
Finally Maia woke up, and Eric brought her to me while the kids grabbed the stockings. Maia looked down into hers and immediately saw Chase, and was thrilled. She pulled him right out and didn't need to look further in her stocking =) She was very happy to see twisty fruit in there later on though.
Serenity got a pet kitten she'd seen in the American Girl doll catalog, a Himalayan kitten with a little collar and fish toy. When she open the box she immediately started jumping up and down with joy! So perfect! She also got several books, a fairy wing pillow, and the Xylophone accessory for Dash and Dot. She made a really comfy nest for her new kitten and McKenna (in a new Elsa dress) with all her goodies. We even built a new bed for McKenna out of cardboard today.
Donovan got a three wheeled scooter, which he zoomed around the house all day on. Really fast! He was thrilled with it! He also got an x-box game, a lego Batman one. Everyone enjoyed that today, even Maia was entranced watching them play it. Daddy got to play some too! DZ also got a pet tiger from Serenity. And five minute Star Wars tales, which I am even more excited about after seeing Episode 7!
Maia got new Skye and Chase plushies, and Everest figurine, and some books as well, including one My Very Own Name book. She loved that as she is so into her letters. However, the biggest hit was the new bath toy. I was a little concerned because the last few weeks she has been tossing all toys out of the bath in favor of just splashing. But I needn't have worried. She LOVES it. She kept spraying Daddy in the face with it, and when it would get outside the bath she would laugh maniacally, "WA HA HA HA!" SO funny. And wet. There's still a swamp I need to dry up in there. Good thing I got a brand new set of towels!
The kids gave me the Lego elves set with the pegasus, which I totally geeked out about. And I got cool kitchen organization stuff and lots of fluffy new towels, and a Nora Roberts book I want to read. So great! Eric got several books, Fables and a Stan Lee biography. He got a light saber science kit from DZ and new Magformers from Maia. (Pink and purple and teal, his favorite =) We had a wonderful snuggly morning playing with all the toys and eating cinnamon rolls and pumpkin muffins. After lunch we piled in the car to go to Papa's house. He watched the kids so Eric and I could have a movie date. Star Wars!!!!! I won't say anything except that wasn't enough exclamation points. I got to go on a date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)
After we got home we finally got to watch our home movies for the year. I love seeing all the cute movies! I edit it to just the very best movies and try to keep it under an hour, but the kids get restless by October =) Still fun!
