December 27th, 2011 by sara

Christmas Day

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.

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And he brought a bouncy horse for Nora, and it is so funny to watch her get going really fast on it.

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Jonah wanted to dig into his stocking first and loved finding more little treats from Santa – “a candy cane!! a street sweeper!!”

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Nora dug right into her pile of gifts.

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ooohhh… trains on a placemat!

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And the kids were really cute, showing their gifts to each other.

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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) :)

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She also cracked us up when she opened this gift and said, “A box of cupcakes… what a great idea!!”

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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.

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Then Nora wanted to try out the bedding for herself.

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And dragged the bed into her room to practice taking a nap with her babies.

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Jonah was pleased with his own pair of fleecy, mom-made baseball pants. He wants me to make some for Sean, too.

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Then Jonah discovered another box from Santa that had even more train cars and tracks. What fun!

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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.

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Mmmm… candy canes…

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Merry Christmas to all our family and friends!

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One Response to “Christmas Day”
  1. Grandad/Gran says

    Clearly, Nora and Jonah had a happy Christjmas morning. They are truly blessed.

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