We started Christmas Eve morning at the movie theater, watching Sing with the kids. Later we geared up in Christmas clothes and headed to celebrate round one with Cas' family.
The cousins pre-present craziness -
A megaphone - just what we needed, something to make our house louder 😉
Both kids received piggy banks. Collin is a bit obsessed with filling his, asking for every coin he sees lying around the house -
His first virtual reality toy!
Maya with one of her two new baby dolls. This morning she had to bring one to school, and as if it doesn't take enough time to normally load her in the car, and she also needed to put her doll in a car seat complete with buckle and give instructions on the doll's bottle. Luckily for her, watching Maya carry around and pretend with her babies gives us enough joy to offset the patience needed when we rarely take a trip without a doll in hand.
Christmas Eve night we headed back to our home for dinner and birthday cake to celebrate Great Grandma Betty's 90th birthday on the correct day.
Happy birthday, dear grandma!
And one of the highlights of the evening - Uncle Alex spent the night with us! Maya listened as he read her the custom book with her name in it -
Then they did some upside down reading before bed -
The kids slept until 7am - which I thought was pretty late considering I was one that would wake up at 3am on Christmas morning - to see what Santa brought for them.
The morning was full of smiles and tears. Tears because initially Maya thought Santa had brought her nothing, even though she had a house to color and inside, Frozen dolls and a jewelry kit. Collin was happy about some very inexpensive emoji keychains, but disappointed that though the box said "mega requeza," the specific Pokemon cards he was after were not inside. Poor Santa, false advertising on the box!
Post presents, post egg & cinnamon roll breakfast, Uncle Alex went on a run - in our 100% humidity, 85-degree Texas morning! Collin wanted to run with him, so the three of us went down the street and back - maybe 1/2 mile at most - and then Collin and I came home to recover while Alex continued jogging 5 miles before we all went to church.
Post church, Maya switched from whatever cute Christmas outfit I had laid out to a Rapunzel dress that was one of her new gifts -
We ate lunch, the kids ran around the house, and we tried to carry on conversations amidst their Christmas excitement. Some posed pictures with my mom's family-
We had a very merry Christmas!
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