We hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We had fun with
Aine's first Christmas. It was a
big change for us to now have
Aine and to have Santa visit our home. It took her a little while to warm up to the whole Christmas morning.
As you can probably tell from these pictures, she was pretty sleepy when we first started. But she was so excited to find new and exciting gifts under each wrapping. So much that she couldn't care less about the rest of the gifts under the tree. She just wanted to play with the ones she had discovered. Who can blame her? I started to hide the unwrapped gifts behind my back so we could move onto the next one, but she was too smart for that. Oh well.
By the time she figured out that there were fun things to find if she would unwrap the gifts she was down to her last few. She got a lot of books for Christmas and I'm happy to say that they are her favorites. She will play with a toy for a couple of minutes and get bored of them, but a book she can flip through again and again. She just never gets tired of them and I couldn't be more thrilled.
This unwrapping was my favorite! We started it for her and it was enough that she could look in to see what was inside. She didn't care about unwrapping it anymore than that. She could get the toy to talk and sing right as it was. We had to finish it for her.
Heehee!
Every year growing up one of my family's Christmas traditions was to go to Grandma Durfee's for waffles topped with strawberrys and whipped cream. This year was the first that Spencer and I were able to go together.
It was fun to see Warren and Anna and their family this year.
Aine soaked up all the attention she could get from the cousins.