Merry Christmas

Merry, Merry Christmas!!

Wow, Santa was very good to us this year!!  Maybe a little too good. His helper, Mommy Elf, just loves shopping all year long and snapping up little (and big) goodies for Will and Avery.  Remember their lists here; well Santa did pretty darn good.

Everyone went to bed fairly easily that night and the elves got to work. Thank goodness we had Pops Elf to help out!!  Christmas morning, Avery woke up at 6:15, which is about normal for her. Being so young, she didn’t realize that she should be wanting to go downstairs. I guess it was maybe around 6:40 or so when Will started yelling for Matt, wanting to know if the stockings had been moved. You see, the stockings are hung on the fireplace in the family room but Santa leaves all of our gifts under the tree in the living room.  Pretty soon we were all racing down the stairs.

The big man himself left a note!!

I wish I could have recorded their noises as they rounded the corner into the living room. For several years we have struggled with the camcorder and trying to make it work with the remote and be in a good spot, etc…and it has always been a major stress point and a major disappointment for Matt and I. Nor do either of us want to be stuck behind it doing the recording instead of being there in the moment with the children. So this year we didn’t worry about capturing those first few moments, but in a way I wish it would have been easy to do so.  Will was just yelling about everything he saw and Avery was making these little happy grunting noises over all her baby doll accessories. 

Santa brought Will a few monster trucks, a Hot Wheels Stunt Track (which is a lot bigger and noisier than Mommy Elf thought), lots of race track, a huge marble maze, ladder golf and a few other assorted fun things. Avery received a princess bike, Cabbage Patch Kid, a baby swing and cradle, ballet shoes and a leotard,  a couple of monster trucks of her own, a cash register, and a couple more girly girl things.

Excited!

Showing NaNa Avery's monster trucks

Pushing a baby in her new swing

Boy Toys

Glue was a huge hit for both of them. Go figure!!

Rock a bye baby....

Will received a monster truck from his dad

Somehow Santa knew that Avery loves the cash register in Will's room at school so he brought her one of her own!

 The much anticipated gift from Will to Avery....... it was a Snow White doll and her pony. Avery loved it, of course. Snow White is her favorite princess.

 Lindy enjoying her new bone.

 Will and Avery are very lucky to have grandparents spending Christmas morning with them. When we went to open the door when Mimi arrived, Will discovered that Santa had left him a big basketball goal as well!!! It was on the front sidewalk.  A side note…..while Santa did great, Mommy and Daddy did not have much success locating Will’s basketball on Christmas morning. How can something that has been in the garage every day for over a year miraculously disappear on the one morning you really want it!!!!  Will took it in stride though and I remedied the situation first thing on the 26^th. Even got Matt and I a basketball too!!!!

 We stayed in our pjs and played and played. Nana and Pops headed back to the coast fairly early that morning to go be with GG Jane and Uncle Matt so they missed out on the Christmas morning pj lounging! Thankfully the weather was nice this year since we did get quite a few outdoor toys that we played with, in our pjs. I didn’t miss not having a white Christmas this year at all!!!

After a lunch full of left-overs, everyone finally settled down for naps. Well, I don’t remember what Matt and I did but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t nap. At least not for me. I’m sure I was cleaning. The house looked like a tornado went through it. Still does actually!

We only were able to let Will and Avery sleep less than hour because had more Christmas celebrations to go to. To be continued……