Christmas

Christmas morning I ran downstairs first to turn the lights on and start water for coffee and warming milk, then back upstairs so we could all come down together. The first thing she ran for was her Snowdrop Deer that I made for her, and while I make her things as much because I enjoy the process of making them as for the end result, I love that my not quite 1.5 year old loves handmade things so much too.

She was excited about everything she opened, but the biggest hits this year were this Horse and Rider from her Nana (which I expected and requested be opened last in case she wouldn’t be into other stuff after it), Owl, Pout Pout Fish, her Narwhal and Daydreamers from Santa, Otter from my brother and Stormy Weather. She also got a big bag of socks with pictures of animals on them and had fun all day moving them from room to room and into and out of various containers. We joke that her favorite game right now is moving commodities.

She loved her stocking and unpacking it. When I was pulling the pictures for this post, she came in and saw the stocking picture and squealed with excitement, pointing and laughing and babbling at the picture. We then went to find the narwhal to play with and that was also very exciting. She likes carrying him around by the tooth and making him swim. She likes to pat and feed the pony, but absolutely will not sit on it for anything so it’s really more a toy for her to grow into.

My family came over in the afternoon and we did more presents and had an early dinner together that my mom kindly brought over and cooked for us – steak, cheesy scalloped potatoes and pomegranate pear salad with raspberry vinaigrette. We then thought we’d play cards, and I remembered that Santa forgot them for the stockings, and husband went out to get some so we could.

We had a really lovely Christmas, and hope that everyone else did too.