Merry Christmas!

Our Christmas season began with Thanksgiving this year. We spent the day after thanksgiving picking out our Christmas tree and decorating it. The weeks that followed we baked cookies and more cookies and ate cookies and more cookies:) We also prepared the girls for the excitement by reading stories about Santa and baby Jesus and by singing lots of Christmas songs. By the time Christmas arrived Caylee was telling everyone that "Santa Claus lands on my roof and comes down the chimney and opens my door" and "he sneaks into my room and sees me when I'm sleeping and I has to be good because he's making a list". She also told daddy that the wind takes her letter to Santa and it flies in the air and makes it to the North Pole. I'm not sure how much Sallie understood about Christmas but she learned how to say Santa and she bobbed her head back and forth and mumbled words when we sang songs.
"Grandpa Holly Gooss" (as Caylee put it) came to spend Christmas with us and the girls loved having him here. Sallie thought he was her own personal jungle gym. She also dragged him by his finger all over the house. I know he enjoyed it:)
Caylee woke up at 5:30 Christmas morning and Grandpa convinced her to lay back down bc it was too early, so we all went back to sleep until Sallie woke up around 7. We were expecting Caylee to be the one that was ready to open presents and look at the toys Santa brought but she instead wouldn't leave daddy's side at first and just looked in amazement. Sallie however went straight for the gifts Santa left and began playing and then when we mentioned that the stockings were full she ran over to grab hers. Caylee finally got into opening gifts and had a great time. Every time Sallie opened a gift that Caylee liked she would tell Sallie "we can share"!
To sum it all up we had a wonderful holiday and loved having our Grandpa with us. Sallie misses her Grandpa and has brought me the computer three times and opened it up and said "banpa" hoping that we will skype him. We hope everyone else had a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year!