Santa Came!

"Santa came! Santa came!"

This was Gloria's first Christmas morning and she had a lot of fun. She noticed the presents under the tree right away and was ready to start opening them.

"My first present of the morning. I wonder what it is."

"It's a shape sorter!"

Gloria was able to open all of her presents with minimal help from me and Rob. Of course after each gift she wanted to play with what she had, so that gave me and Rob the opportunity to open our gifts.

"Another present! This one makes noise."

"Maracas!"

"Shake shake shake!"

I gave Rob some olive oil, an umbrella, and I put all of his Bliss 66 cds in frames so that he can hang them up and have them on display.

Rockstar!

"That's cool Daddy!"

Santa brought Gloria two books, a shape sorter, maracas, a tambourine, a drum, and three whiffle-type balls.

"Will you read to me please?"

After about half of her presents were open, Gloria was getting a little fussy so we took a break for breakfast and to change her out of her pajamas. Once she had some food in her tummy, she was ready to go again!

"Merry Christmas!"

What a curly head!
It's really only this curly after a bath or sleeping.

Rob gave me all sorts of gifts, including two seasons of Home Improvement on DVD, a photo printer, and something that has to be installed in my car so I can play my iPod through the stereo.

"A hand blender! We've been wanting one!"

"Christmas was fun Mommy!"

Our first Christmas morning as a family of 3!