Christmas eve after mass, the tree is full of presents.
We did let her open one that had some nice books. Grandma read her one and then she was tired enough to go to bed without too much protest.
|
|
|
|
|
Finally Christmas morning. Oh, the joy of unwrapping presents. Especially since we made her eat breakfast first.
A gingerbread man in the stocking!
Andy gets a present too.
Grandpa Jim tries to get some present-opening tips from Leilani, but he still wasn’t very good at it. Leilani had to help him more than once.
Sonja gets some help too.
So many little presents…
Stamps!!!
Grandma and Grandpa’s tree with several generations of ornaments, but no more presents. Actually, there were some left for David who would arrive later.
The advent calendar was one of Leilani’s favorite things in December, probably because there was a little chocolate each day. She likes chocolate so much that on some days, she tried to ask for another. It was great for teaching her numbers. I think she found every one by herself after we’d show her the digits elsewhere. We brought it to Austin for the 24th, and Leilani wanted to open another chocolate on the 25th. We told her that’s not how it worked, but she insisted on looking in all the little windows again—and she found one! That was her Christmas Miracle.
Among the toys at Grandma’s house are David and Andy’s collection of Smurfs from when they lived in France (where they are called Schtroumpfs). Leilani really enjoyed setting them up on the fireplace. She did leave two in the box though, the hunter and the soldier and declared the box the prison …
