Merry Christmas!!!

For the last two weeks, Delilah has been asking every day how many more times she has to go to sleep until Christmas and/or Jesus' birthday.  This is the first year that she really understood what was going on and it has been SO fun to experience the holiday season with her. 
Last night the girls opened the traditional Christmas Eve present of pajamas from Grammy Di & Papa H.  Delilah is going through a phase where she LOVES to match Ellie Bug, so she was ecstatic to have new, matching pajamas.  Sadly, she got too excited and had a little potty accident so she couldn't sleep in her new pajamas. :(  But Santa called while she was brushing her teeth with Daddy and said that if he had time, he would really try to wash her pajamas while she slept.  I gave Delilah this news when I was tucking her in and she responded with the most precious, breathless, "Really? Oh, Mommy, do you think he'll have time?!?!"  Luckily, he fit it in to his schedule and her clean pajamas were waiting for her this morning.  He left them right where she had left his cookies...she was thrilled.
The rest of the day can best be told in pictures:

Trying to get a shot of the new pj's on Christmas Eve. Not always a Kodak moment around here. :)



Loving the pajamas



Annual opening of the mailbox on Christmas morning.  Lollipop inside!

Reading the letter Santa left.  He liked the cookies and milk and had time to clean her pj's.

Probably my favorite moment of the day.  Delilah looked at all the presents under the tree and asked where Noelle's presents were.  Then she brought this present to Noelle before she ever opened one of her own.  That's love.

Getting the hang of unwrapping.

As always with toddlers, the least expensive present that Santa brought was her favorite.




Kisses for sister

 

Funniest present of the day.  Chris recently gave up chewing tobacco; my brother, Cannon, sent a hammer and a can of Copenhagen, sealed in a box, with a plaque that reads "Break glass in case of emergency".  Too funy.

"This is the best Christmas EVER!"  That's what Delilah kept saying all day.

LOVED the Rapunzel present from Mimi & PopPop

Making Christmas breakfast.  My first attempt at homemade biscuits and sausage gravy...they were good!

New tea set

Delilah has recently become interested in card games.  Here she is concentrating on the new princess version of Go Fish that Santa brought.

First sleepy one.

Second sleepy one.

We missed our friends and family in Texas & Utah, but we made the most of our intimate Christmas at home.  The four of us played all day and as I type this, it's 9pm and I am the only one still awake. :)  Merry Christmas to all of you...hope your day was filled with love and laughter.