Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Christmas #2

I’ll start with Christmas Eve.  We went to a wonderful Christmas Eve service at church.  Madison really enjoyed the little musical the kids choirs did.  We took another Christmas picture with the girls in their Christmas dresses (Ellie is just a little drool-y!)

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Jeremy and I were “those” parents who put off wrapping gifts until the night before.  It made for a later night than I would like…  The girls woke up – Madison first and then Ellie.  Madison saw her first gift – Fluffly – under the tree. (No, it’s not real, but she was fooled til she touched it.)

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Madison spent some of her extra time pulling all of the presents out from under the tree and stacking them in a big tower.  It made it easier to give gifts and she really enjoyed doing it.

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Her big gift was a Dora dollhouse and van.  She was excited – just as I had hoped. 

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Ellie seemed to enjoy this gift just as much as Madison.  (We’ll see how many “fights” I’ll break up over who is playing with what!)

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Ellie was very excited to open gifts too.  After all the practice at the first Christmas, she knew what this was all about.

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They opened some gifts together

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And some gifts alone

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Ellie really got into the tissue paper…

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Madison enjoyed her new clothes (sparkle leggings and sweatshirt) and Dora

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We had to wrap up this small Christmas for the next set of festivities after nap… Christmas #3

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