Dec 22 - We joined Uncle R, Auntie K, G, Nana, Papa & Auntie S at Uncle C & Auntie K's house. We has a lovely dinner and opened a few gifts. The cousin's played happily together. Afterwards we stopped off at the Solstice party. G was still their so she &
Draya had great fun chasing each other around while we grownups visited. Much fun was has by all.
Dec 23 & 24 were spent cleaning the house, doing some last minute grocery shopping, wrapping gifts and prepping food for the 25
th.
Dec 25 - Christmas morning we opened gifts at home.
Draya wasn't particularly thrilled about being woken up at 8am. Once she had some cereal in her we told her that Santa had visited. She ran to the window to look outside. We pointed her towards the living room where she quickly got the hang of opening gifts. Needless to say she made out like a bandit. Mommy & Daddy & Santa were all very generous. Highlights included an
indestructible kids camera, 2 pairs of Cars
jammies, a load of toy food and the movie Finding
Nemo. Then we went to Grandma & Grandpa's for brunch & more gift opening. Highlights from there include a doll's house & a toy helicopter (to go with her Tomas
lego). Then we went to Nana & Papa's for dinner.
Draya took her nap in the car between parties. Gift highlights from the evening include a doctors kit, some wonderful books (Winnie the Pooh goes to the Doctor is the favourite so far), a stuffed
Shrek & Donkey & a princess hat that she calls her 'barbie hat'.
Draya and G were both pretty wound up by the end of the night and Mommy felt a little bit like she had been run over by a Christmas train - but it was still a wonderful day!
Dec 26 - Uncle R came over to set help Mommy & Daddy with some technical things and them Mommy & Daddy's friends M & S came over for the afternoon, dinner & games.
Draya finally got to watch all of Finding
Nemo, and Bambie too.
Dec 27 - We all went to Grandma & Grandpa's for brunch & a visit with Uncle K, Auntie L & W. The cousins has lots of fun playing together.
Draya kept trying to steal W's new truck. She also really liked the dress-up trunck that she received. That night L & A came over for dinner & games.
Dec 28 - Mommy made stew and we all went over to TL & D's for dinner.
Draya adores baby W. I think she's
itchin' for a baby brother or sister but we're not quite ready to give her one... yet.
Dec 29 - L & P & I & G, L & M & B, T & H & J all came over for dinner & a kids gift exchange.
Draya received a wonderful game called
Hullaballo that she & the girls
immediately opened and played in our bedroom. It's all about shapes and colours and pictures and even though it says that it's for ages 4 & up she actually did pretty well at it. She also got 2 great books and a cute ladybug dress-up set. She has been using the skirt from it to play ballerina.
Dec 30 -
Draya got up and insisted on playing Hullabaloo first thing... in the bathroom. We had a quiet day at home because mommy is sick with a cold.
We accidentally left our camera at Nana & Papa's on the 25
th so we're missing photos from all of the days after that. But, Daddy picked it up today so Mommy will download Christmas Day photos soon.
Next up... New Years Eve at Morgan's...
Labels: Christmas, cousin, party, toys, update
The first thing Draya did, after eating breakfast, was unpack her sock.
Finding Nemo! Yay!
Draya read her new Cars book to Pink Baby.
And played happily with Daddy.
Draya was a good girl and ate her lunch at the coffee table
Always helpful, she assisted uncle D when he opened his gifts.
And she really liked her new doll house.
G looked on while Draya opened her Dr's kit from Nana.
Later she checked his heartbeat.
And played with her new Shrek & Donkey (Donkey is underneath her)
Draya REALLY likes baby W!
She had great fun rolling on the floor with I & G.
Then M & the girls watched some Lion King.
Kisses for P!
Draya got tickles from I as she left the party.
