Merry Christmas

This Christmas, Anna entered the stage of being excited/impatient to get downstairs Christmas morning to see what surprises cropped up.

On normal mornings she she wakes up around 6:45-7 and comes bounding into our room. Christmas morning, however, I heard her door open and little padding feet at 5:45 a.m....However, instead of heading to our room, I heard her burst into James's room, flip on his light, and exclaim, "James, are you ready to get up yet?!?"

While I found her excitement and eagerness to include her brother endearing, I (and he) would have preferred a few more minutes of sleep. But, you give slack on Christmas, right? We were able to hold her off from going downstairs until 7 a.m. with some shows, in order to spare the grandparents and Aunt Maddie from a pre-dawn wake up.

And the wait was well worth it because Santa really worked his magic this year, setting up a princess castle, keyboard, pirate ship, AND installing two "big girl" swings. Anna was ecstatic and James fed off of her excitement. Although he did have to pause in the midst of his gift opening for a nap - I think the hullabaloo was too much.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Tope was waiting in this spot when we came
down the stairs.  She's no dumb kitty!



Wow!



Loving his keyboard from Santa



Tinta apparently helped set up the princess castle.



Trying out the big girl swing - and Santa brought one for a friend, too!

Paper crowns from the poppers at dinner.

King James