Christmas Fun

We all had a wonderful Christmas. Cailin and I went up to Burleson the Saturday before Christmas and stayed until New Year's Day. Daddy came up Christmas Eve. It was great to get to spend enough time to see all of our family and friends. Since she is the only grandchild at this point, Cailin of course made a killing with all her new toys. Her Uncle Brad got her a huge stuffed horse which she loves to snuggle with. We got to spend time with surrogate grandparents Scott and Brenda (Maggie's parents). Cailin is such a lucky girl to have so many people to love her so much.

She is such a snuggly little girl. She will snuggle with all of her beloved stuffed animals. Grandma Debbie got her a Winnie the Pooh bear that she held on to for about 2 straight days. Anything that is super soft will get a snuggle from Cailin including any dogs or cats willing to hold still long enough to let her. Of course Mama and Daddy get snuggles all the time and Grandma does too.

She got some great toys this year. Toys that make noise and vibrate...

...and books galore! She LOVES looking at books, especially those that play music. She will spend a lot of time looking at her books and practicing turning the pages and if it plays music, she'll do a little dance, it's too cute. She's going to be such a little genius!

She wants Grandma to read her the new book that she got from Brenda.

As was expected, the unwrapping of the gifts was one of the best parts of Christmas. I mean what's not to love about tissue paper and paper with glitter.

We also had a chance to get together with all of the Hackett family. Cailin was mostly amazed by her cousin Arden, who is 2 1/2 and probably the coolest kid ever in Cailin's mind. She followed her up and down the stairs about a million times (which was not so fun for Mama's back). As we were leaving, her and Arden gave each other hugs and kisses goodbye. We were all melting at the massive level of cuteness. I think Cailin wanted to keep giving her hugs all night long if we would have let her. I can't wait to see these two in the years to come playing together. With all the new baby cousins on the way, they'll be the two big girls!

Cailin got a talking Elmo doll that she loved. It's talks, dances and tells stories. She got clothes, of course, a Cabbage Patch doll and lots more then she even knows what to do with but it all means that she had a great Christmas.

She loved playing with Grandma's Christmas cards. She especially liked the ones with snowmen or Santa Claus on them. She would pick them up and put them on the table, then knock them off again only to put them back on the table again. Taking things on and off a table seemed to be a new challenge, whether it was cards or magazines or shoes, it all was fun to her.

Her fanscination with animals is never ending (definitely my child). She had to continually check on the dogs in the backyard, I guess to make sure they were still there and laugh at them when they are playing with each other.

We hated to go home but Christmas break is almost over. It's fantastic to get two weeks off to spend with my sweet girl and my family, even Daddy got to take a week off! We've had a great year and are looking forward to many more great Christmas's to come.