Merry Christmas!!

Christmas finally came! It was an early one at our house. Actually, 5 minutes after we put Evie to bed on Christmas Eve, she was up asking why the presents weren't under the tree. Santa only comes when you go to sleep, Evie. Annalise was up first this morning, but since she isn't mobile, we left her in bed until Evie got up, about 20 minutes later. After a diaper change and a quick feed, we got down to the business of opening presents.The sun rises really late in Minnesota (8:02 am today) so you can see by the darkened windows we were up before the sun today. Here's Jim and Evie getting the first present out from under the tree.

Evie gave Annalise a toy cel phone. Evie demonstrated the function of each button about 10 thousand times.

Annalise gets the idea of Christmas and gets pretty excited.

Well, Evie was good and kept her hands out of her mouth to warrant the Marble Toy that she really wanted. Here it is in action. She played with it all day and we managed to keep track of all 6 marbles all day. I'm sure in a week or two, we will be missing a couple marbles--mentally and physically.

The best present we got this year!

We have our car packed up and are heading back to Grandma and Grandpa Seibert's house very early in the morning. We may update while we are there if we get time. Have a great Christmas week!