Although Christmas is huge for Katie, Emily was super excited for Christmas this year. We tracked Santa on-line, we left food for the reindeer, and she begged to sleep in Katie's room on the floor so she could look out the skylight. In the final week, it was 100% Christmas 100% of the time.
As tradition holds, we read Twas the Night Before Christmas before bedtime...
... and left out cookies and milk. This year, Emily left a note which she had written weeks earlier.
By morning there were lots of presents to open.
Sleeping bags.
Softball glove.
New jeans.
Real Mommy baby doll.
Santa even brought drums. I had told Katie I never thought Santa would bring a kid drums. Looks like he made a good compromise.
It was a musical Christmas as they each got a guitar - seen here being backed up by their oversized Kooky Pens.
They both utilized the digital camera given to them by Gramma and Poppy. If you look closely, you can see that Emily created her own design on it.
Later in the day, word must have spread among the reindeer community that we fed Santa's hoofers. A couple showed up looking for their own treats. If you zoom in, you can see that one of them even has antlers. We don't see many with antlers around here - so he MUST be from the North Pole.
Finally, we dodged a bit of a holiday bullet. On this morning (Dec 26), Emily awoke and tossed her not-so-proverbial cookies. Better today than yesterday.
Merry Christmas.
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