Christmas Time!

Merry Christmas!!

This was really the first year where I GOT this whole Christmas thing. Momma explained to me that Christmas is when we celebrate Jesus' birthday. She read me books (my favorite was "Who Was Born This Special Day) about his birth, and sang me songs! I want to hear "Away In The Manger" just about every night! I also like the "Little Drummer Boy" and have her sing that to me a lot too. We did all sorts of things this year to celebrate! We went to the Zoo to see the Christmas lights, we decorated Christmas Trees, went shopping, wrapped presents, made cookies... The list goes on.

We celebrated Christmas Eve with Momma's family. We spend a few days before then at my Aunt & Uncle's house where my Aunt C let me help her decorate one of her Christmas Trees.

This is Aunt C. She's a good sport and sat still while I applied lots of play make-up to her. That was one of my gifts this year, play make-up and I just loved applying it to everyone who would let me.

This is Uncle C and my cousin J (I have lots of cousins with a J name). Uncle C's friend was standing in the doorway watching Uncle C play with J and I. He's a lot of fun and I loved climbing on him and having him hang me upside down. Everyone came over and hung out with us while we were in town. Aunt C hosted a "girls night" where we made necklaces and decorated Christmas Cookies. Daddy made Tacos for everyone.

I really liked the part where we decorated cookies! I put frosting on them, and glittery gel, and sparkly sugar and anything else I could get my hands on!

I was very good at it!! I liked adding the Red Hots a lot too, and licking my fingers, and tasting the frosting and putting the spout of the get tube in my mouth when no one was looking! I was very proud of my work! We all got together on Christmas Eve Morning and celebrated together. We had breakfast and played together until it was time to open our presents. I waited so patiently!! I got all kinds of great presents this year! One of the things I really enjoy doing these days is playing dress up, and cooking! Uncle D and Aunt C hit it right on the head with my new Chef's dress up clothes that went along so nicely with the cooking toys I got from Gramma and the big girl baking set that Uncle B and Aunt J bought for me!! It even went along wonderfully with the Cool Bake oven that Grandpa and Grandma got me, but I didn't know that until the next day! Here I am putting on my oven mitt and my cousin J leaned over for a great photo op! I had so much fun getting to know her and playing with her! She's about three years older than me so she was still young enough to want to play with toys that I like.And of course I had to pose in my full Chef's get up! Momma about died when she saw this!! But who wouldn't? I'm so darn cute!!

Later that evening we went to my great Aunt M and Uncle L's house to celebrate Christmas Eve with Momma's huge family! Right now I am the youngest, but soon there will be new cousins to play with! Otherwise, when my Cousin J isn't in town from SC, the closest cousin I have in age is several years older than I. My cousin I and my cousin T adore me when I don't have anyone else to play with. They keep me busy and let me play with the big girls. My cousin I is the one on the far left in the picture below. She thinks I'm just great!!

Momma's family is really big and can be a little overwhelming. For the most part I jump right in and play with the kids, but sometimes I like to sit on daddy's lap while he plays cards.
And then of course Gramma is always there to rescue me from the masses when I start feeling a little insecure.

The big event of the night is that we get a very special visit from Santa Clause! Last year I was so not into that, but that was our first meeting. Momma and Daddy took me to the Zoo a few weeks before this and I saw Santa there. I decided to go up and have a chat (I mean, he had candy canes after all!!) so that Santa and I could do a little one on one and get to know each other. So when he stopped by on Christmas Eve, I wasn't scared!!

My gift was the very first one he pulled out of his sack this year! I willingly walked up and sat on his lap! No tears, and if I was scared, I was pretty good at hiding it! Momma got it all on video, and this was the picture Daddy took with his phone, so its sort of blurry. When I saw Santa a few weeks before this and he had asked me what my favorite toy was, I tolled him a dolly. And that's exactly what I got from him on Christmas Eve! A Baby Alive who coos and bounces up and down! I love her!!

Christmas Day...


After the party with Momma's family we drove back home so that I could wake up in my own bed and we celebrated Christmas with our little family early that morning before going over to Grandpa and Grandma's house. As soon as we got to their house we all opened our presents!

I sat next to Grandma a little bit while I opened my gifts, and I sat on Momma's lap a little. I decided to try on all of my new jammies, and my robe...all at the same time!!

And of course all of my jewelry from my new Princess game, and my new boot slippers!

Grandma made a great dinner with Lasagna and Chicken, both of which I really love! And My Aunt M and Great Grandma came over, and my Aunt L and Uncle R and of course Uncle Nigh Night and Uncle T were there! It was so much fun opening all of my gifts and playing with the puppies. Even the puppies got presents!! I really enjoyed Christmas this year! Its a busy couple of weeks with lots of traveling, but I love seeing all of my family! And the food is really good too!