We must have been good--Santa came to our house!

Opening the Santa presents. Oh if I had half the excitement and energy of these 2!!

Emerald set up the "nursery" for her babies during dinner.

The baby doll set that will hopefully help "train" the kids how to treat Lobster.

Pop Pop loving on his new grandson.

The kids with Skip's Uncle Allen and Janet. We were so excited they could join us for dinner.

Uncle Jeff still loves to wrestle with the "big" kids, which they adore. It will be a few months before he can do that with Josiah.

Aunt Heidi is such a great mommy! We love seeing them in this new role!

My sweet nephew, on his first Christmas! He's so tiny!! How can you forget so fast--they grow up way too fast??

Uncle Jeff loving on his boy.

Emerald opening her babies that she requested from Santa. She has already named them like 20 different names.

Calvin was pretty excited to see Elmo!

"Race cars" Calvin got pretty excited to see his gift, too.

Santa ate his cookies and drank all his milk. He even had time to leave a sweet note.

Our loaded Christmas tree. We had even more presents come later with Jeff & Heidi and Aunt Laura shipped more. Yikes!! We feel so blessed.

Santa came and ate all our cookies! He even left us presents. What a fun Christmas morning it was when the kids showed us all their full-fledged excitement of the season while opening Santa's presents. Santa brought Emerald a baby doll set and twin babies. He brought Calvin a large Elmo and a race car set. Both kids also got a pretty cool dance-cam that connects to the tv and they sing/dance as they watch themselves on tv. It was funny to watch Calvin pushing around the babies in the stroller and Emerald all about the race cars. They were still pretty excited that they'd been "good enough" to get the presents they requested. Later that morning we had Aunt Heidi, Uncle Jeff, Josiah, Nana, Pop Pop, and Skip's Uncle Allen and Janet over to the house for a big meal and more gift opening. It was Josiah's first trip to our house, and his first Christmas, which was a pretty exciting day for the little guy! We loved spending it with him!! That night, as the kids were falling asleep, Emerald asked for her new babies. I brought them up, along with their pack-and-play, b/c how do you deny the Santa gifts?? She finally fell asleep, about and hour and a half later. Wish I'd have gotten a picture of it--she was asleep on her floor, pillows down, blanket removed from the bed, beside the baby bed, with Mango inside, covered up, and the horsey looking in on him to watch over him as he slept. No matter what new toys we get, nothing ever replaces Mango or Bo-Bo. Calvin also took his new Elmo to bed (his request) and Elmo was to the side, Bo-Bo clutched tightly to his chest. Why don't I ever take pictures of those sweet moments, too?

Among the many wonderful gifts we received, we are too spoiled, all of us, Emerald got a new digital (kid) camera. She put on about 69 pictures in the first 20 minutes. They were all making fun of the situation, describing her to be just like me. I guess I'm trying to teach her early to be a budding photographer. I can't wait to see her pics and see if they are any good. It's better than her playing with my new camera!