Merry Christmas

Christmas this year was so much fun watching it all through the eyes of a one and a half year old. We had a very busy but fun filled few days celebrating with all of the family. As tradition goes we went to the Johnsons for Christmas Eve and had a very special visitor this year...Santa! Unfortunatley Ella was not too impressed and wanted nothing to do with him. If I got within a few feet of him she would scream out in terror so we watched all of her cousins sit on his lap and recieve their Santa gifts from across the room. The older kids loved having Santa come and visit and I think we are going to have to ask him to stop by every year now, maybe Ella will be more of a fan next year!

We spent Christmas morning at our house. Santa left her pink kitchen under the tree and her new play house in her playroom. Ella came down the stairs and looked at one and then the other not sure which one to run and play with first. All morning it was back and forth between the two and it was hard to get her to focus and open any of her other gifts. We had such a nice morning watching Ella and seeing the joy on her face.

After a fun filled morning at home we drove up north to my parents house and had Christmas with my family. Ella loved taking all of the bows and putting them on Boppy but the real fun began when she opened the gift Santa left her at Gammy and Boppy's house...an Elmo doll. The excitement on her face was priceless she could not wait for me to get him out of the box and would not stop kissing him. Needless to say she has barely set him down since...Elmo goes everywhere with us!