Merry Christmas! Like kids everywhere, Lucie woke up at the crack of dawn Christmas morning. She must have been excited for her first Christmas! I know we were!
We spent the morning at home and opened presents and ate breakfast. I made crab cake benedicts, that turned out just OK.
Lucie has a LOT of presents to open at our house, thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Theobald and hew aunts and uncles on that side.
Lucie really got into the actual opening of the presents. Though, I can't say she didn't like the box and wrapping as much as the toy itself. oh well...
Trav helped Lucie open her stocking, which is my favorite gift to open. My family does awesome stockings. We get two; one from my mom and one from Betsy! This year, I made Lucie's stocking. I barely finished before Christmas. I stayed up really late the weekend before Christmas cross stitching and watching sappy, but awesome Christmas movies. But I got it done (with some help from my sister) and it looks great. Just don't tell Lucie I filled it with her existing toys. I think she knows, judging by this picture:
After breakfast, we went up to Napa. Even though our church didn't have a service on Christmas day, Lucie wore her fancy Christmas dress anyway. All the cousins did. It's more fun like that.
We had a lot of fun and excitement. Lucie's first experience with crackers (the English Christmas toy/noise maker tradition) was a little tearful, but nothing that couldn't be fixed. and of course, we tried (somewhat successfully) to get a picture of the cousins in their nice dresses and all looking at the camera. i think mirabelle's getting better at holding lucie instead of strangling her. what do you think?
Lucie got a little baby in her stocking from my mom after we noticed she loved the baby Jesus at my parent's church.
After dinner we changed into comfy, but still holiday themed clothes and played with our new toys.
It was a wonderful Christmas for the whole family!
