As you've read from previous posts, Hallie has been incredibly skeptical of Santa Claus this year, so Cam and I had to work extra hard to make it believable. We let her get Santa's cake and milk ready on our Santa plate before going to bed and said goodnight. Hallie was so excited to open presents so on Christmas morning, Cam and I awoke at 3:00am to little feet running into our room asking, "Is it time to open presents yet!?" We were more annoyed than anything, but it was cute how excited she was. We made her go back to sleep and at 7:00 she couldn't wait anymore so we got everyone up to go downstairs and see what Santa brought... here's the girls waiting patiently on the stairs in their cute Christmas pj's that they opened on Christmas Eve.
To Hallie's surprise, she got exactly what she asked Santa for: a dollhouse; with furniture, a Mommy, a big sister and a toddler... but NO DADDY!?!!?
Yes, this is where Santa has been FIRED this year because on Christmas Eve, Santa remembered the he forgot to buy the Daddy for the dollhouse!!!!!! Not yet being worried, Santa hurried off to the store to buy the Daddy. Three stores later, Santa stood in the toy isle at Meijer, realizing that all the Daddy's have sold out, except one African-American Daddy... do you think Hallie will notice?" Santa wondered. In tears and disappointment, Santa promised to do better next year and started plotting what Mommy was going to tell Hallie on Christmas morning when the Daddy isn't there. So... back to Christmas morning....Hallie noticed quickly that there was no Daddy to her dollhouse, so she asked where he was? I quickly told her that Daddy is working, the Young Men's president and he's studying for his Master's Degree, just like our Daddy. I cringed waiting for the whole "Santa isn't real" speech from her, but all she said, was "Oh, okay!" and finished playing. PHEW!! I guess Santa got away scotch free this time.Grandma and Grandpa magically knew that Hallie was getting a dollhouse so they gave her the minivan to go with it. And Sydnee got her very own grocery cart from Grandma and Grandpa Drake. Thank you!
Sydnee got a Leapfrog doggy named Violet who sings her favorite songs to her, says her name and talks to her! She LOVED her!
Sydnee also got her first baby doll... can you tell how she felt about her? So precious! We all had a great Christmas. Cam got the one gift he wanted: a blu-ray DVD player for our HD TV (it's a guy thing!), and I got what I wanted: a digital scrapbooking program and a huge clock with our last names on it from my parents. My Mom actually took the clock apart and added our names to it herself... isn't she good!?
Grandma and Grandpa Voge gave the girls matching dresses which Hallie is so excited to wear to church this week. Thank you!
The girls lately have been really into dogs, so they both got numerous dogs including matching dogs from Aunt Stacey.
We had a great Christmas! Thanks Mom and Dad and Stacey for coming to us this year!!
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