Merry Christmas everyone! We hope everyone had a safe and happy day! We had a great Christmas. Christmas Eve we went to dinner at Nana Bev and Grampa Bob's house with Sarah and Dan. We had a great time and enjoyed hanging out with everyone. Caitlin was dressed up in her Christmas dress and looked so cute. Every time she got a gift that needed to be opened, she would bring the gift to Grampa Bob to open. Needless to say, he had his hands full trying to get everything unboxed! For dinner she didn't seem too interested in eating anything besides Ruffles potato chips but we all enjoyed dinner and ate too much!
Christmas morning everyone came over bright and early to see Caitlin open her presents. I think she's still too young to understand what was going on but she continued her pattern from the night before of bringing everything Toni and I unwrapped for her over to Grampa Bob to be unboxed. :) By the end, Toni and I were opening her presents from Santa while she played with stuff that was already opened. :) She seems to be enjoying all of her toys so far and seems almost as if she's not sure which one to play with first. She got a lot of nice things from family and Santa but so far she seems to play with each one for a little while before moving on to the next one. :) For lunch, Toni and Dan made a great feast which we all once again ate too much of. :) This year I even tried making homemade egg nog which came out pretty good, albeit a bit thick for my taste. Lunch was great and after everyone left Toni, Caitlin and I sat down to watch one of my gifts from Aunt Sarah and Uncle Dan - It's a Wonderful Life on Blu-ray (one of my all time favorites). Overall, it was a great Christmas that I will never forget. :)
This week Caitlin also started really trying to help us when we were doing things. At Wal-Mart she helped us unload groceries from the cart to put them on the register. Toni would hand her something and she would walk around the cart to hand it to me and then return to Toni for another item. Then she started pushing the cart to help me as well. When we got home she helped us unbag everything and would bring me stuff from Toni while I was in the pantry so it could be put away. She's been trying to help by pulling laundry out of the dryer and sweeping the kitchen. It's so cute to watch her. :) Her help did lead to an embarrassing moment today at Target though.. We were looking at the Christmas stuff on clearance and Caitlin picked up a big tube full of 40 Christmas ball ornaments to hand to me and when she did, the bottom of the container fell off and 40 plastic Christmas ball ornaments rolled all over the aisle! Luckily several people stopped to help us! :)
This week should be pretty slow. Toni and Caitlin will be home Thursday and Friday and I am off Friday. It's a skeleton crew week at my job so hopefully it will be boring and uneventful. My next post I'll dedicate to looking back over 2009 and looking ahead to the changes coming in 2010. Whatever your plans are for New Year's Eve, we'd like to wish you a Happy New Year and hope you have a safe and happy year ahead!
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