Christmas Day

We loved waking up in our home on Christmas Day.  It took Emma a little to catch onto opening gifts, but by the end of the day, she had become an expert, and would even snatch gifts away from others to open them -- oh oh!

We started off our morning reading the Christmas story and finishing our Jesse Tree (I will write a later post on this).  We then opened our stocking gifts.  Due on how expensive these puree-pouches are, and how quickly Emma can go through them, we never buy them.  Therefore, they were an immediate hit as soon as she opened them, and wanted to try one immediately.

Here she is opening her gift from mommy and daddy.  What can this be?????

A groceries cart!  What a great way to push her babies and milk around the house.

We then headed to the Morrises'.  It is Morris tradition to have all the kids sit at the steps right before coming down to open gifts.  I guess this is something that they learned to do while growing up -- anxiously awaiting for their parents to get all of their gifts sorted and ready to greet them downstairs. 

Here is Poppa helping EG open her stocking gifts.

 

After all the gifts were opened, some of Byron's extended family (cousins and aunts) came over for a family brunch.  Emma enjoyed playing with her second cousins, but also being held by her Aunt Re. 

After all the excitement was over, we had the great idea of taking her outside and play.  Of course, she got herself in the mud and made a big mess out of everything.  Good news was she got to take a bath in her Memma's kitchen sink, right next to where she was washing dishes.  Emma enjoyed getting ahold of the plastic cups and drink the dish water -- yuk!