Merry Christmas!

This year for Christmas we were supposed to go see Grandma Moe, Aunt Ang and Uncle Lon and the kids, but you were so sick.  You got the flu shortly before Christmas and were still throwing up Christmas Eve morning, so we decided we should stay home.  That meant we had to unpack the presents and get them under the tree.  We also attempted some photo shoots in your Christmas dresses since we wouldn’t be going to church.  We were mildly successful.

I also had to run to the store to get something to make for Christmas dinner.  And since it was so late, I bought store-bought cookies to leave for Santa. 

You insisted on trying them.

And then said “Santa will never know, right, mom?”

We opened presents Christmas morning.  You were a little hesitant at first…

And while you never totally got into unwrapping things, you sure did get excited about what was under all that wrapping paper and tape!

You got a Supercalifrgilisticexpealidocious Sing Along Songs DVD

A keyboard

And a workbench

Your favorite toy, though, was a doll that Santa brought.  It was so cute to watch you open it!

And when you were still playing with it a few hours later, we knew Santa had picked a winner!

You wouldn’t even let it go to have your goodnight bottle!

Even though our plans changed and we weren’t able to go to South Dakota (Mama and Mommy were super bummed), we still had a lovely Christmas at home with you, my dear Sophie…with many more to come!