Christmas Morning

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Lily came to Mommy and Daddy's room at 5:45 on Christmas morning! She had been dreaming of Santa during the night, and she said he had come into her bedroom to see if she was sleeping, but she wasn't sleeping, so he didn't leave any presents! Hahaha! Poor girl really thought Santa had flown his sleigh away from our house because she didn't go right to sleep at bedtime on Christmas Eve. She really took it to heart when we told her Santa wouldn't come if she was still awake! So she was obviously upset when she was explaining all this to us early on Christmas morning... The funniest part of all was that in order to get to our bedroom, she had to come downstairs and walk right through the living room where all the stockings were stuffed and Santa had left presents!!! She was clearly still a little drowsy when she came to our room, so we told her to go back out to the living room and see if Santa left any presents. She went to look and came back shortly, still saying that he hadn't left anything! After a few more hugs and slowly waking up a little more, we sent her back out there to look again, and THEN she noticed what Santa had left for us! It was so funny!

Dylan was not awake yet, so we decided to let Lily open her stocking. She found some fun things like a princess projector flashlight (the picture below is of Lily having the crown image from the flashlight shown above her head, but the flash from the camera made it so you can't see the crown shadow. Pretty cute though!) and hair clippies, Silly Bandz, a toothbrush, and even some new ice packs for her lunch bag for school. There was also a princess cell phone toy that had a hidden compartment of lip gloss! Santa chose a gingerbread house ornament for Lily this year because she loves to look at homes decorated with Christmas lights to make the houses look like gingerbread houses, and also because she had so much fun decorating her own gingerbread house with Daddy. Lily enjoyed opening each little thing inside the stocking, taking her time playing with everything. When she was finished opening them, we ate cinnamon rolls for breakfast and Dylan woke up.  When he opened his stocking he found his Little Drummer Boy ornament and some matchbox cars.

Dylan was a little groggy first thing in the morning too! Next Dylan and Lily opened their smaller wrapped gifts from Santa; they each received a new movie! Dylan got the Fox and the Hound, and Lily got Beauty and the Beast (which is precisely what she had asked Santa for - "a Belle movie.")

The  kids helped Daddy open a gift from Santa.

Dylan absolutely loves Rexie!  When Rexie roars, Dylan roars right back at him, with an equally meek little roar.  It's very cute.

After opening some of the presents from each other and from family, it was time to open the larger presents from Santa!

He brought Lily a set of golf clubs! Lily has been asking for awhile to go golfing with Daddy.

And Santa brought Dylan a basketball hoop!

Mommy and Daddy gave Lily some ballerina clothes for her new dance class that she'll be starting in January, so she decided to show us how to do ballet.

And Daddy and Mommy gave Dylan an Andre Johnson Texans t-shirt! We thought he would like that, since he knows how to say "football."

We had a Christmas morning scavenger hunt!  Here is Lily with her first clue, which led her to the train table.

The clue she found on the train table led her to her "Uncle Mike Book" (the princess storybook that Uncle Mike gave her when we visited him in Mississippi).

And the third clue led Lily to the bathtub, where she found the telescope she received from her cousin Ashlie!

Dylan also had a very quick scavenger hunt, where we asked him to show us where his shoes are.  His present was in the same drawer as his shoes, inside the bench by the door.  He didn't really catch on to the excitement on finding a present in a hidden spot, but it was fun for Lily to see that Dylan got to have a scavenger hunt too.  After the kids found their presents, Daddy had a quick scavenger hunt to find his last present too - a new golf club!  So he and Lily are all set for a date on the golf course as soon as it's warm enough.  After the scavenger hunts, we had leftover ham balls and green bean casserole for lunch... Dylan was so tuckered out, he fell asleep at his tray!