We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It is neat to see how much more excited Kylie gets for things as she gets older and begins to understand things more. She anxiously awaited Jesus' birthday because she wanted to see what 'Happy Birthday Jesus' gifts Santa would bring her. We have really tried, this year in particular, not to focus on Santa but on Jesus and the nativity. We found a nearby church that put on a live production of the nativity and we went to it. We sat in the car and watched as the church member reenacted the nativity in the snow. Kylie was just mesmerized. We have tried to read at least one book about the true reason of the season for bedtime and her preschool has really focused on the birth of Jesus (One good thing about sending her to a religious preschool). For the last week of the Christmas season, Kylie kept asking "Is it Jesus' birthday yet?' but we were able to keep her busy with cookie baking, bell ringing, and present shopping/wrapping.
On Christmas eve, we went bell ringing in the afternoon and then came home for a relaxing evening in front of the fire, just the four of us. We had a yummy dinner, made Santa's cookies, tracked Santa's whereabouts and watched Christmas movies. We tried really hard to make it to midnight mass as that is Michael's favorite; but Kylie feel asleep around ten and there was no waking her when it was time to leave for mass. We'll try again next year. So, Santa came and it was off to bed for the adults!
Christmas morning started a little late since Kylie and Caleb were up so late the night before. We made our Christmas breakfast of cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate (healthy, I know ) and opened up our presents. Caleb had no interest in opening presents. He just wanted to climb on them and eat the wrapping paper. So Kylie opened all the presents this year; including a wii that Santa brought to our whole family... it is our new family addiction (there should be a warning on it). After cleaning up after ourselves and getting ready to go, it was time to head to my father's for Christmas day festivities. Kylie had lots of fun playing with her cousins and got thoroughly spoiled by everyone there with lots of independent play toys (I love the freedom they brought!)
Our busy weekend continued with Mike's family the day after Christmas. We decorated sugar cookies with the kids, had a wonderful meal, shared gifts and spent some wonderful time together. It was great that everyone was able to be there together, it is really hard to find a day when all the guys are off since they work different shifts. It always seems like someone is missing. But not this year :)
We hope that your Christmas was as great as ours, but hopefully a little less crazy ;) As the new year approaches, we hope that everyone has a great 2010 and we are excited to see what it holds for us.
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