This morning we heard two very excited kids coming down the stairs! The little whispers and gasps of quiet excitement was too sweet!!! I am so glad that M and I were already awake, but just laying in bed waiting for the kids to wake up, so that we could hear them!! Precious!:)
They were so overwhelmed by all the gifts, that C didn't even know where to start!! S started in on her stocking first(this is our first year having stockings as it is the first year we have had a mantle on which to hang them!) and C started in on the wrapped gifts on the fireplace!
It was comical to watch the different personalities as they opened their gifts! S opened all of her, quickly, not taking any out of their packaging and playing with them or analyzing them at all. C wanted each of his gifts out of the box, put together and figured out before moving on! Needless to say, that even though S had quite a few more to open(she got TONS of American Girl outfits that were wrapped separately!), C took a lot longer to finish opening his!
I think S liked her American Girl doll stuff and Elsa outfit stuff the best. C I think liked his ambulance the best - he got a LOT of emergency vehicles of all sorts since he is pretty much obsessed with them right now!
Watching them give us and each other the presents that they had gotten for us was so sweet! They really enjoyed giving just as much getting... well, almost anyway!
After we finished opening all the presents, we ate breakfast(cinnamon rolls, of course!) and then let the kids play with their loot while we cleaned up, did some things around the house and got ourselves ready to have lunch over at Elliott and Lara's house!
We ate a late lunch there, visited with family, let the kids run off some energy and then came home! By this time, S was not feeling well at all and came home and went straight to bed:( Poor girl! I let her sleep for about an hour, but then decided to wake her up and we watched a bit of a movie, opened MORE presents from Grandmamma and Granddaddy, called Gigi and Grandpa, and then brushed teeth(with had been forgotten in all the excitement this morning - bleh!) and put the kids to bed!
It was a long, exciting day and we enjoyed every minute of it!!
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