Christmas Times

I am a lucky girl. I got to go spend Christmas eve with my sister and her family. The highlight was for certain the excitement of the two little ones while opening their presents from Santa on Christmas morning.

This little guy is learning his letters. So he took each present and traced the letters to see if they were in his name or his sisters. Too cute.

A new tractor!

Every now and then I like a blurry photo. It shows a sense of movement and goes a long way to capture the mood of a moment. Very rarely does it have anything to do with a flighty photographer forgetting to set the flash...

They got lost in the excitement, but the new LeapPad tablets that Santa left in their stocking quickly became the focus of play. Amazing how by two or three, these little guys can work their way around computer equipment with almost no help.

See the look on this little guy's face? Pure mischief. He was having a delightful time. And the race track his mom put together was completely disassembled within 5 minutes.

Pretty girl! She got a vanity with makeup, curling irons, and jewelry.

Applying some lip gloss. The scented body spray that came with this was half gone before the end of the day. The good news is it will only last one more day at that rate.

During coloring time, we got to the page with the alphabet. He went over the letters with no less than six different colors.

Christmas is an exhausting day! But it was phenomenal. Wonderful. Memorable.

But the fun didn't stop with just Christmas day. A few days later, Mom and Dad came home from California. So we did Christmas again at Grandma and Grandpa's!!

One of the activities planned for the evening was decorating a gingerbread house. And when you are a little munchkin and get a taste of the yummy frosting grandma makes, it is hard not to lick your fingers after placing each candy on the house.

Really hard.

Really, really hard...

But don't worry, his sister wasn't the only one! The little guy liked licking his fingers clean too.

The holidays don't always go exactly the way we imagine they will. But if you have children, family, and time together, then the rest of the details seem to be unimportant.