It has been quite the year... we decided early to stay at home (Victoria) for Christmas and it has been an easy going day so far. It is 12:34pm and Finn still has two packages to open... Finn was up at 7am.. and wanted to watch "Pablo"... I found a Christmas recording of Backyardiagans and then I set up for the morning.. Zoe didn't' wake up until 8:30.. her light was on in the middle of the night.. she must have woke up and not gone back to sleep for a while. She did have Rapunzel and Flynn (barbie size dolls) in bed to play with, which she opened Christmas Eve afternoon.
Speaking of Christmas Eve.. the day started with Zoe wanting to open a present..We said at Dinner.. she negotiated to after lunch.. but spent every hour asking to open the gift. Opening the last Advent bag didn't help much (but she did like the wind up jumping toy). Finally at 11am we went swimming... then lunch at A&W (Zoe's favorite).. then Finn was asleep by 2 and Zoe opened her gift. Much to say, with her insistence, I did not put any gifts out until after the kids were in bed. I had planned for the kids to open new Toy Story PJs (Jessie for Zoe and Buzz for Finn) at night, but at some point I was upstairs and hear (oh.. look Toy story!!) and feared that Zoe found my present stash.. but really she had just opened Finn's PJs.
but back to this morning.. we Skyped with my mom and dad.. so they watched the festivities... the kids went relatively slow.. I guess the average was slow.. Finn opened one an hour.. Zoe opened everything else. It was a Toy Story theme.. Jessie and Woody dolls, Rex and Buzz. Lots of barbie and princess dolls. Finn received a Rocking Horse from Grandpa and Nana.. and that will be a lasting hit. He loves the cars from Auntie Carrie and Uncle Scott. He has already put new socks on his hands. They received a lot of art supplies, including dry erase/magnetics boards which I think they will really like.
Zoe is a little crushed that her princess dolls look "prettier" than her.. she didn't get enough dress clothes (things were hard to find.. she really wants a dressy ballet outfit.. and I think if it was the same as her Princess dolls, that would thrill her.) I bought her a Chinese silk dress, but she said it was "too slippy".
The best part of this Christmas though is the interaction between Zoe and Finn.. I heard countless times last night and this morning Zoe saying things like "We'll always be friends. We'll play together. We'll sleep together.. Finn lets go sleep " and then they snuggle together.. it was so cute.
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