"Our" Christmas

We celebrated Christmas Eve/Christmas day a whole week early, since we are going to be visiting my parents on the actual day, and it's too hard to haul gifts back and forth on an airplane. So, Kate & I wrote a letter to Santa and asked him if he could come to our house early with the gifts. Luckily, he complied (we are still going to do stocking gifts at my parents', though, and I'm sure Nana and Grandpa will pick up a few things for Kate to open on Xmas day. ;)) So, before we went to bed Friday night, we took a last look at the tree, with just our gifts from each other under it, but when we woke up Saturday morning, Kate saw this:




Her "big" gift from Santa


I think she liked it :)




Enjoying our Christmas breakfast of quiche lorriane




With her large Lego (read: toddler-safe) zoo set. She loves it and has been playing with it non-stop


She can almost say the word "purple" now, and it's always followed by "Nana!" since I always say purple is my mom's favorite color


She's saying "orange", which is why her mouth looks funny


Kate and Daddy playing with her Lego zoo


What a good tower!


Such a happy girl! Notice how the doll has been relegated to the floor so the stroller can hold Legos.


Loving her lego set!


In one of her new outfits; it says "Daddy's girl."


"Can the baby come too?"

So the stroller and doll were from Santa, and then from us she got: two outfits, the Lego set, three books (I Love Cats; Duck & Goose, a Book of Opposites; and Mama Cat Has Three Kittens), the washable toddler paints and a large-piece puzzle with a princess/castle theme. She seems very happy with it all, so I think Christmas was a success this year :)