Christmas

Once again, Santa found our house and we had very happy children Christmas morning:

P3's haul: new Duplo train

P2's haul: Elena of Avalor doll and an Alolan Vulpix plush

P1's haul: Pokemon legos and a Pikipek plush

For the family: Nintendo Switch with Pokemon Let's Go Eevee (as requested by P2), and Smash Brothers:

For Mom and Dad: Legos 

 Finding goodies in their stockings:

Showing P3 his new train:

Opening presents from family: 

The disaster area: 

Enjoying their new toys and candy (P3's favorite part):

We each had a giant egg in our stockings. When you opened them, they were filled with slime and pieces of a dragon/beast. P1 and P2 did not care for the slime at all, but P3 loved playing in it. P1 liked his dragon once all the slime was washed off.

Building Legos:

P1 and P2 each got a Treasure X, which is basically a hard brick of sand that you dig through to find treasure.

We went and visited great-grandma at the care center, and then we went over to my parent's house for more festivities. P1 got more Pokemon legos, and P2 got dolls, "fancy" shoes, and cute clothes. P3 got lots of clothes and these On the Go Water Wow books, where you basically paint with water. Grandpa also gave them a real walkie talkie set, and P3 walked around with that all night.

At the end of the day when the kids were getting ready for bed, P1 told me that the day had been "magical". I guess you can't do better than that!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

We pulled out the hot wheels and track on Christmas Eve. P3 really enjoyed playing with the cars.

We had dinner with my family on Christmas Eve. After dinner we sang some songs, and P1 wanted to act out the Nativity. So we did an impromptu Nativity. P1 wanted to be baby Jesus and he wasn't happy when I made P3 baby Jesus.

We decorated some gingerbread men:

Grandpa got a bunch of little cars that we raced:

Grandpa did the traditional reading of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. When we were getting ready to go home, P1 had a panic attack because he never finished his letter to Santa. So we let the kids write a quick letter to Santa and left it by the cookies we set out for him.