Christmas

The Christmas holidays have been fabulous! We had Christmas at Nana and Papa H's last Sunday since Angie and Tom drove to Boston for Christmas week. Olivia opened all her gifts and enjoyed them all! Grandpa Q was still in the hospital w/pnemonia that day so we visited him there for awhile. On Christmas Day, we did Santa at home, then had lunch at my aunt's house with Dad's side of the family. Olivia played with Owen (4) the most and just had a jolly ol time with aunt Margie at the piano playing Silent Night! Most of the adults brought gifts to do the chinese gift exchange, lots of fun! As for Santa gifts, Olivia slept in until 7am, then really wasn't fully awake for the opening of gifts...but she saw a sheep stuffed animal and said "baaaa" for the first few minutes :) Santa gave her a princess toddler bed, comforter, Hello kitty sleeping bag for naptime at daycare, crayola items, fingernail polish, hairbows, Little Mermaid Aquadoodle, Bella Princess dance DVD/mat/wand, shoes, Dora and Elmo DVDs, Toddler Bible Songs CD...she was actually TIRED of opening gifts by the end!

Oh yes, I had Bri's gifts and a few of Olivia's unwrapped gifts under our bed before Christmas and a couple of days before Christmas, guess who is looking under there and finds a Wiggles coloring book and brings it out to mommy? Yep, the little angel happened to be on the floor playing and noticed it under the bed!!! So that gift was given early.

Well, after Aunt Margie's on Xmas, we drove to Grandpa Q's house, now home from hospital. His twin came down and we all opened gifts and ate a good ham dinner. Olivia loved the baby doll and carrier from Grandpa...carried it around all night! Then Friday we drove to Ohio to have Xmas with Bri's family until yesterday. It was a nice trip seeing family up there and getting lots more gifts and eating good food! Olivia is a piggy pig sometimes, must be going through another growth spurt! She did really well around everybody though, and just struts around between people like she owns the place :) She got to play with Emma (4?) and Grace (2) again (saw them back in the summer) which she loved! She and Grace headbutted at one point and Grace got a bloody nose :( Overall, a wonderful 4 Christmas' for us all!