The kids really enjoyed Christmas this year. On the carpet, Santa left Jonah a train that runs by itself on the tracks. It was the first thing Jonah noticed, and he was thrilled. That train has hardly stopped chugging for two days now.
And he brought a bouncy horse for Nora, and it is so funny to watch her get going really fast on it.
Jonah wanted to dig into his stocking first and loved finding more little treats from Santa – “a candy cane!! a street sweeper!!”
Nora dug right into her pile of gifts.
ooohhh… trains on a placemat!
And the kids were really cute, showing their gifts to each other.
I asked Nora if she wanted to give Jonah his present from her and she brought it over and said, “Jonah! It’s a Thomas present!!” (before he opened it) :)
She also cracked us up when she opened this gift and said, “A box of cupcakes… what a great idea!!”
I made a doll bed for Nora for Christmas (with a little help from Jonah – he drew the original plan and he was pretty excited to try some real sawing and hammering). So we made the bed frame and then I also sewed up a mattress, sheet, quilt, and pillow. I was super proud of how it turned out, so it was great to see how much Nora loved it, too.
Then Nora wanted to try out the bedding for herself.
And dragged the bed into her room to practice taking a nap with her babies.
Jonah was pleased with his own pair of fleecy, mom-made baseball pants. He wants me to make some for Sean, too.
Then Jonah discovered another box from Santa that had even more train cars and tracks. What fun!
And Nora was very happy with her set of cookware (and her shopping cart which I don’t have a good picture of yet), so now she can wake up her sleeping babies, put them in a cart, go shopping for food, come home and cook it, feed the babies, and put them down for a nap. Very cute.
Mmmm… candy canes…
Merry Christmas to all our family and friends!