yup. finally getting to christmas. maybe i'll blog our disney trip before we go back there again.
santa uses adorable polar bear wrapping paper and has very nice handwriting. he took a bite out of each cookie and drank most of his milk. the reindeer chomped their carrots. the carrots had to have green (per quentin.)
the baby gate kept the horde of dogs away and also slowed the kids' assault on the gift piles. cousin strategery below.
identifying their gifts
c'mon, mom. we're ready to open them.
cousin party
plus beagle
santa brought caroline the xylophone she explicitly requested.
and he hit it out of the park with Q's color changer monster trucks. (they change color when dunked in warm and cold water. Q learned about them on youtube, but they do not have them in any store. ebay for the win. and a cringe-worthy blow to the paypal account.)
santa also found a "belle in her blue dress" - another very specific pickle request
stupid (mommy! you said a bad word!) blogger loaded these sideways and i don't have the patience to figure out why. santa also got Q some super cool star wars fighter guys.
the carnage continues
oh wow. santa also scored a really good lightning deal for a cinderella castle play set on amazon.
and star wars angry birds. if they just incorporate monster jam into the mix, Q would never have any cause to play with anything else ever.
immediate fun with color changing monster trucks. hot. cold. hot. cold hot. cold. look mommy, digger is green. now he's purple. now he's green. now he's purple...
despite getting three awesome gifts from the big guy, caroline could not take her eye off the giant my little pony her cousin wrenny got.
hey that's me!
and more color changing. it. just. doesn't. get. old.
futile attempt to get nice photos. who am i kidding? my children to not cooperate.
the gift tag on Q's shirt says, "to grandma, from quentin"
baby cousin logan is ready to get on with the show
giant stockings, bigger than kids
part one of present opening. because we are cruel people who do not start opening presents until like noon. and then we stop, mid chaos, when lunch is ready.
pickle stopped to read each book she got
omg! princess sofia! disney store sent it to me by accident and told me to keep it. then, demand was so high people were buying them on ebay for more than $100. if only i had known...
she also donned her super girl princess cape
Q's school had a fundraiser where the kids could go shopping for crap, i mean gifts, while their parents were in parent/teacher conferences. quentin hand-selected gifts for each of us. daddy received a desk set - a pen, a calculator, and a keychain. daddy's favorite gift. i got a *beautiful* necklace. frampa, who never dresses up, got a fine necktie.
more chaos
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