christmas day

christmas morning i got up with maddux at 5:30am (and 2:30am) and thought about just laying down in the living room so that i wouldn't miss their christmas morning excitement because i didn't think mason would make it past the tree to come get us.  but then i didn't want to ruin their excitement with coming to tell us that "santa" had been here (madelyn was very concerned that we didn't have a fireplace) so i went back to bed.

they came in our room very calmly around 6:30am to ask if they could just play.  sure.  madelyn then came back with the plate we had put the cookies on and asked me to come help her find them because mason had taken them.  mason had been trying to get them before bed so madelyn just assumed that mason had come out and gotten them later.  daddy suggested that santa ate them but madelyn told us that santa hadn't come yet.  she had walked right past their gifts and full stockings without noticing them!  twice!  i asked her if she was sure and then she went back to check.  she came back and told us that she touched her stocking and there was stuff in it - santa had been here.  there still wasn't a lot of excitement, sort of like if she was telling us about the weather - wait - that would have had more excitement...

i finally got up and went out with them to get the coffee maker going (aka get daddy going).  they got started on their stockings and daddy and i got the coffee, camera, and trash bag.  now the excitement was starting to flow with each new gift.

mason with his wheelies ramp



madelyn modeling her red purse that she can "wear like mommy's purse" (aka across the body like i carry the diaper bag)



christmas in progress

maddux slept through all the gift opening.  mommy and daddy had to open his presents for him since his brother and sister were too busy playing with theirs.  he still made a pretty cute santa.  happy first christmas, maddux!

i have video too but it needs to be edited.  i will add it in a week or so when matt brings back the speakers from wisconsin.

madelyn wanted to play with everything and share nothing, but one quick trip to her room helped take care of that for a while.  she was so excited about everything.  probably her favorite gift was rudolph the red-nosed reindeer lip gloss.  she talks about it constantly, applies it 10 times a day (at least), and keeps it in her purse.  it is also red and shows up all around her lip line.  she saw a weight watchers commercial with jennifer hudson wearing red lipstick and said, "look!  she has rudolph the red-nosed reindeer lip gloss too!"  (side note: madelyn calls rudolph "ruda".  she knows it is wrong but doesn't like to be corrected.  she just says, "but that's what i think he is called".  it is similar to another argument that she always tries to have with me about simba - from the lion king - being the 'white' lion.  the 'white' one is nala and instead of arguing with her i just say, "okay.  if that's what you think.")

somehow i planned meals that kept me in the kitchen all day.  i am not sure how that happened, but i cooked all three meals.  oh well.  it was still a very merry christmas!  love.