We had a surprise visit from Santa (Uncle Matt) which neither kid was very thrilled about. Owen was not feeling very well through the visit so he slept quite a bit, mainly just during the day though!
Christmas Eve we went to Chruch and left Owen home with mom since he seemed to be feeling worse. Maggie and Amanda dressed alike which thrilled Maggie.
She adores amanda and has had so much fun with her dancing, singing, and amanda taught her how to shake presents adn guess what is in them, so that is a favorite thing to do of hers. When we got home he had a fever of 104 so I was dreading that this was going to be a exhausting Christmas. My friend Karri's husband is a PA and was kind enough to let us come over on Christmas eve and he gave him a good check and told us he probably just had a virus.
By that evening he was feeling a bit better so we visited mama and papa and then went to the annual christmas eve party at Jim and Patti K's house. This is my very favorite night of the whole year, and always has been. Ever since I was little I looked so forward to the Christmas eve party, even as much as Christmas day. I was so glad we got to be there this year and my kids got to enjoy it also. We had a blast seeing everyone and Maggie had fun with family, she especially found a friend in my cousin Liv.
We didn't get to bed until pretty late that night so the kids slept in until about 8:30 and then we got up to begin Christmas. I must say I did cut back this year, despite what Joe and everyone else thinks.....but I will say my kids got more than their share yet again.
They had fun opening presents and Owen got a dump truck from Grandad (jahjah) that actually held his attention for awhile! We had Christmas dinner at Pat's and Magggie was thrilled that she got to spend the day with ralph, izzy, and lucy. (the dogs) Unfortunatly for her, our trip got cut short since the dogs don't do my allergies so well. Our biggest news of this Chrismtas season though is what a big girl maggie has proven herself to be. She has blown us all away with her latest achievment. We have been talking all month about how we are going to leave her pappy (pacifier) for Santa to give to the baby reindeer and all along she has said that is great. She adored her pappy though so I didn't know how well it would go when that dreaded first night without it came. Christmas eve night we sat out santa's milk and cookies and than she laid her pappys our with a note telling him who they were for. She then went to bed and didn't mention them once!! The next day when we left for pat's she found 2 pappys in the car that we had forgotten, I thought for sure this would ruin it but she told me that santa must have dropped them and she held them all the way to pat's house, went inside and said she was going to give them to the baby puppies! (ralph and izzy) She didn't even try to get once last suck in and since then she hasn't asked for them or even mentioned them once. I am so proud of her but still can't really believe it was that easy. Hopefully Owen will ditch his bottle with the same ease!
I hope you all had a great christmas as well and I will try my best to blog more! Here are some more pictures from Christmas eve for you to enjoy!
