One of these years I'm going to take a picture of Christmas Eve. Christmas day is a lot of fun with the presents and going to visit friends and family and stuff, but Christmas Eve in our house is really what needs to be remembered in these blog books. But because it's one of those sacred things, it's not something I think of taking pictures of. Next year though, next year...
In the meantime, we will share our Christmas day pictures!
Our present-opening actually started back in November. Mike's parents send all the grandchildren an ornament every year for Christmas so that when they leave home they will have a whole bunch for their own trees.
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| Here's Finnegan opening his very first Christmas ornament! |
You can see Madie is very excited with hers--even if you can't see what it is. It's a simple plaque with a cute lobster on it holding a sign that says, "Maine." It's cute--and indestructible--and those are two good things. Finn's is a little rocking horse. Madie's first is also a rocking horse, so when she saw his she screamed in excitement, "HE HAS A ROCKIN' HORSE JUST LIKE ME!!!"
Then we celebrated Thanksgiving, then Mike's birthday, then Alexa came (no pictures, sorry, her fault, not mine), then we got a turkey from Mike's work so we had Thanksgiving le Deuxieme, then we had the Christmas program at church, then Christmas Eve basketball on Monday, then we had Christmas Eve night and voila! Here we are Christmas morning!
It's really cute--maybe everyone did this other than my family--on Christmas Eve "Santa" wrote a letter back to Miss Madeleine so she could read it on Christmas morning. Mike says he got a letter from Santa in his stocking every Christmas morning as a kid. (This was one of many instances that helped to convince Alexa and I of our deprived childhoods.)
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| Reading Santa's letter. He even drew her a picture! |
Santa answered Madie's letter to a T. I don't know if you can see it in the next two pictures but she got pretty much an entire box of candy canes!
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| Holding her candy canes. |
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| Santa also gave Madie some awesome Barbie BandAids so she can play phlebotomist even more! Oh yay. |
Finn got a neon green pillow pet! We're not entirely sure what animal it is, but it doesn't matter all that much since even if we all knew, Finn would not.
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| He is so excited he's drooling. |
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| Madie opens a pair of sparkly pink Mary Janes. Ooooo! Aaaaa! |
Another Watkins tradition is matchy pajamas, to be opened the night before Christmas--sorry Karen. DIdn't happen. I actually didn't know we had them until the night before Christmas when Mike put them under the tree and said that's what they were. Oh well.
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| Finn models the front... |
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| and the back. |
This year's jams are pretty cute, but I have one BIG complaint:
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Where's my trapdoor?
Merry Christmas! We'll see you in 2013!
2 comments:
I love your traditions, especially the ornament one. Such a good idea. I may have to steal the tradition and start it in my own family!
Finn's PJs are SO CUTE!
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