After a busy fall with lots of traveling we were actually pretty excited to have a low key Christmas at home this year with our little family. Josh was on an ER rotation and had gotten a lot of other days off for
interviews, so we knew he would probably be working on Christmas Eve and
Christmas. Luckily, he worked in the morning on Christmas Eve and in
the afternoon on Christmas Day. I was so glad the Y was open in the
morning on Christmas Eve and the kids and I went there and then Josh was
home for all the festivities that evening. Lasagna for dinner is turning into a tradition (We actually had it for both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day because I knew there would be plenty and Josh was working anyway)
On Christmas Eve we make cookies for Santa,
read the Christmas story from Luke using our Little People nativity, watch a personalized video from Santa, and open the ornaments Josh and I got each other.
We had one very excited boy and he asked me about a million questions about how the whole Santa thing was going to go down as I put him to bed. Christmas morning the kids actually slept til after 8 and were very excited to see what Santa had brought.
Shane was not thrilled with the presents that had clothes in them,
but Marissa sure was! She would hold it up to herself and say "pretty!"
we ate cinnamon rolls for breakfast and the kids were pretty much happy all day playing with their new toys. Shane kept saying, "We're having a really fun day!!!" They were sure spoiled!
It worked out nicely that Grandma Dettinger's package got delayed because of the blizzard in the midwest because when it came the next day Shane was so excited for more presents that he was even happy about opening clothes.
Marissa opened these adorable little boots and when we asked her if she liked them she yelled, "Yeaaaahhhh!"
Shane kept asking what came after Christmas, and we told him "winter". He keeps asking me to sing him "winter" songs. So far we've sung "Once There Was a Snowman" every night ha ha. Any ideas for me?
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We've chosen to ignore the existence of winter in our house ha ha. We sing the Popcorn Popping song:)
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