Almost There I Promise

I know....I know. I've done three posts leading up to Christmas and I still haven't even gotten there yet. I promise the next post will be Christmas day.

First, I have to do a short back story on the photo below so you'll understand what happened to Claire's right eyebrow. The night before Christmas Eve, Claire was pushing her bike around the living room when it tipped over, she fell on top of it, and got a huge gash on her eyebrow. This was her first big owie. Sadly, I don't know which thought came to my mind first: is she okay or great, now all of her Christmas pictures are going to be ruined. :) Isn't that terrible of me?! We cleaned up the blood and decided to put a band aid on it and go to bed. I still am second guessing our decision and think that we maybe should have gotten stitches, but it's too late now. Thankfully, the pictures weren't actually ruined. The next night was the family nativity and our little sheep was just as cute as can be. Claire walked around the room dancing to the hymns with her hand on her chin and when baby Jesus entered the scene, she ran over to unswaddle him so she could hold the doll.



Claire, and the rest of her nieces and nephews, did a wonderful job in the nativity. I was definitely a proud Mommy. Afterwards, everyone gathered around my Dad as we all looked up on the Internet where Santa was at the moment. If I remember correctly, Santa was flying over Peru. The kids got so excited and thought he was just a few minutes away and wanted to get into bed, but first they had to open up their Christmas Eve gift. To our amazement, Claire was very excited about opening her present. Her cousin, Connor, showed her what to do with the paper and she loved every second of it. When she finally opened up her first gift and saw the pajamas with a dog on them, she almost couldn't contain herself. She was so happy! This was going to be a fun Christmas.