On the 23rd of December (or Christmas Eve Eve, as we call it at my house), Chris' parents had a get-together for Christmas. Just a few friends and family. Lots of drinking and eating and oohing and aahing over the child. She was the hit of the party up to and including the very end where we all busted into song and dance to Jingle Bells and she danced her little pants off right along with us. You see, Jingle Bells is her favorite Christmas song because she has an Elmo stocking that sings Jingle Bells. Yay for Elmo (and I suppose you can't *hear* the sarcasm in that statement since you're *reading* this). Here is the singing and dancing fun...Jayna tucked safely away in Nana M's arms at this point in time.
(Please excuse the quality of these photos...they are very minimally edited.)
On Christmas Eve, we had family over to our house. We drank and ate some more and then made gingerbread houses out of graham crackers. I know...then they aren't really gingerbread. But who cares!! We had a blast! And Jayna highly enjoys having people over to our house because she can have all of her stuff and people all in the same place! Here are a few pics from that evening...
Some card playing.
All that Jayna would eat that night was bean dip. Yes. Bean dip. And she LOVED it. Just look at that face!!
Deep into the gingerbread house making.
Four VERY big dorks with their respective houses. Tony (far left and my brother) won for most creative...his gingerbread house was a trailer. It had wheels, a trailer hitch and brake lights on the back.
Jayna playing (showing off) before bed.
Our Christmas tree with the gifts that Santa delivered after Jayna went to bed.
And this is the moment when tragedy strikes. We get up on Christmas morning and go into the living room to open presents. I get my camera and...the battery is pretty much kaput. I...I forgot to charge my camera battery. Oh dear. I do have pics of her unwrapping gifts, but they were taken with my old crappy camera and I haven't uploaded them yet. Here is what I DO have...
Here we are first thing in the morning. Jayna was afraid of the presents. We had to ease her into it.
But then she got going and began to understand that they were for her to look in.
And it was ALL OVER from there. The ripping and tearing and craziness began.
And it was the best day of my entire year. She loved it!!
But why wouldn't she love it?? She got all these cool new toys!!
So, all was good. And tomorrow I'll write about Christmas at both Nanas' houses and then the day after Christmas with my dad's side of the family. I'm only one person, folks. I can only blog so much in one day. Maybe by next week I'll have a 17 month post about Jayna for you!!
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