Another Christmas has already come and gone. And I say it every year, but I can't believe another year is almost over. This Christmas was wonderful. I will say that having children during the holidays makes things infinitely better. This year, Alex is old enough to mildly understand the concept of Santa Claus. He woke up on Christmas morning and saw the glorious gifts staring back at him under the twinkling of the lights and said, "Mom, Santa came!" It was wonderful. The smile on the kiddo's faces was my best Christmas gift ever. I know now why my parents sacrificed so much during the holidays just to give us a nice Christmas. But of course, it's not all about the gifts. As per tradition, we sang Happy Birthday to Jesus before tearing into the presents. It was so much fun and I know that it just gets better every year. It really is my favorite holiday. I love getting presents for the kids in the family and making all sorts of tasty treats to give away to family and friends. But I must admit that I am ready for a break. It's time to return to normalcy. And with that note, you should know that the Christmas tree was gone mere hours after waking up on the 26th. I'd had one full month of tearing Alex and Abby off of the tree and pulling ornaments out of Abby's mouth. Actually we had quite a few ornament casualties this year and some of them were due to partial digestion (Abby). Yuck. Anyhow, I know that I am late in getting up my Christmas photos, but I was busy enjoying the rare moments of having a husband around for a day.
We exchanged gifts with Mandy and her wee ones a couple of days before Christmas and they had a blast with the first gifts of the season. And yes, that is a cat butt in the picture. Christmas is the cats' favorite holiday too. They love the trash part of it. Boxes, paper and string, oh my!
This is Alex and Abby going bananas when I told them it was time to open presents.
Alex loved going through his stocking. He pulled one thing out at a time with joy.
Abby mostly just dumped the whole stocking on the floor without even thinking about the element of surprise. But as you can see by the look on her face, she was pretty excited about everything in it. Those are stickers. Santa knows what the kids like.
Josh's parents gave him a Patriots calendar. That would be his favorite football team.
Alex got a Woody doll to match his Buzz Lightyear that I found at a garage sale. He was very happy.
Abby's favorite was her tea set. She can't get enough of this toy. She plays with it nearly every day, serving me tea and cake whenever she can.
This is my favorite picture by far. I giggle every time I see it. Abby got a pink bunny with a pink baby backpack carrier and a pink purse. Guess who uses it now? Yup...that's my little man! And yes, that is a Wiggles shirt he is wearing.
And just for fun, I threw in a picture of the kiddos Christmas ornaments for this year. I couldn't really afford the arm and leg it costs to buy fun ornaments that the kids might actually have a connection to so I Suzy Homemaker-ed a couple of them up. Seeing as how they are avid Wiggles fans, I wanted to make them Wiggles ornaments. $1.00 later, and lots of random arts and crafts from around the house, I have these. They say: Alexander's Wiggly Christmas and Abigail's Wiggly Christmas.
So it was wonderful and I look forward to it again next year. For now I'm just glad that the kids have new things to do to keep them busy during the long winter ahead. And where am I in the photos you might ask? Yes...I have zero photos that involve me. Mama Monkey is the photographer. Oh well...maybe next time. I hope you all had as wonderful of a Christmas as we did!
This is Alex and Abby going bananas when I told them it was time to open presents.
Alex loved going through his stocking. He pulled one thing out at a time with joy.
Abby mostly just dumped the whole stocking on the floor without even thinking about the element of surprise. But as you can see by the look on her face, she was pretty excited about everything in it. Those are stickers. Santa knows what the kids like.
Josh's parents gave him a Patriots calendar. That would be his favorite football team.
Alex got a Woody doll to match his Buzz Lightyear that I found at a garage sale. He was very happy.
Abby's favorite was her tea set. She can't get enough of this toy. She plays with it nearly every day, serving me tea and cake whenever she can.
This is my favorite picture by far. I giggle every time I see it. Abby got a pink bunny with a pink baby backpack carrier and a pink purse. Guess who uses it now? Yup...that's my little man! And yes, that is a Wiggles shirt he is wearing.
And just for fun, I threw in a picture of the kiddos Christmas ornaments for this year. I couldn't really afford the arm and leg it costs to buy fun ornaments that the kids might actually have a connection to so I Suzy Homemaker-ed a couple of them up. Seeing as how they are avid Wiggles fans, I wanted to make them Wiggles ornaments. $1.00 later, and lots of random arts and crafts from around the house, I have these. They say: Alexander's Wiggly Christmas and Abigail's Wiggly Christmas.
So it was wonderful and I look forward to it again next year. For now I'm just glad that the kids have new things to do to keep them busy during the long winter ahead. And where am I in the photos you might ask? Yes...I have zero photos that involve me. Mama Monkey is the photographer. Oh well...maybe next time. I hope you all had as wonderful of a Christmas as we did!
2 comments:
Your children are adorable
Thank you so much!
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