Flu or no flu, Christmas was almost here. Luckily, I am a planner and had pretty much everything done except our log cabin pretzel house...oh well. We did finish our traditional cookie icing!
Amelia would only decorate the cookies she was leaving for Santa so had to call in Dad for some help.
This is probably why we are all sick.
Amelia usually opens 2 gifts on Christmas Eve...games and pjs. Since I was sick and forgot to wrap the games together and I found the cutest pillowcase for Christmasy dreaming, she got to open 4. Might do that next year as it worked out great, her opening throughout the day and playing games.
It was time to take a bath, put on our new princess jammies and put out Santa's treats!
Amelia made a note to avoid confusion. It took her 2 hours to fall asleep.
Then sometime in the wee hours...
Santa came....
Amelia awoke at 4 am. Dad made coffee.
After perusing the goods, she emptied Santa's stocking first.
Then the stocking from Mom and Dad (yep you heard that right...it's our tradition).
She had already spied one gift Santa left for her unwrapped.
She said this was her favorite gift...
Even though she only talked about a Hatchamil for the past 3 months.
Time to take a little break and check to see Santa drank his chocolate milk and try to read Santa's fancy handwriting.
Have some breakfast with our new best friend...
and watch our hatchamil hatch.
Back to presents.
So many wonderful gifts.
But getting up at 4am means you make a teepee with the gymnastics mat Mom and Dad gave you and hop in your cozy sleeping bag Santa brought you...and take a nap.
Merry Christmas.
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