Christmas 2012

Christmas was so much fun this year! At daycare Kelsi learned about the baby Jesus. Every time she saw a nativity she was sure to point out the "baby Jesus". So sweet! At the beginning of December we took her to see Santa at Bass Pro Shops. She did not want anything to do with Santa or anything that was fake in the North Pole there like snowmen or elves. She did however love "riding" all of the fourwheelers in the store. We also took her to Calloway Gardens to see Fantasy in Lights. She loved it! We went on a week night, and we were the only car riding through so we stopped so she could see all the lights. We were even able to get out and take pictures. She also got to stick her head out the sunroof with her Daddy, which she loved. Her favorite part of the lights was the jack-in-the- box. She kept saying "again". She also enjoyed helping Grandaddy drive through the lights since we were the only ones in the line. Another part of Calloway that she enjoyed was the gingerbread man cookies.

We celebrated Christmas at Grannie Susie's, Grannie Juanita's, Grannie and Grandaddy's, and Nanny Carolyn's. We also had our "annual girls' Christmas Party". And we exchanged presents with Braxton. We are very blessed to have so many family and friends in our lives during Christmas and year round. As a result of all the festivities Kelsi has enough babies to start her own daycare! This also includes 2 doll strollers, high chair, swing, and baby bed.

It was so much fun doing Santa with Kelsi this year. On Christmas Eve she was very concerned about leaving the milk and cookies for Santa, which we did .We also read "The Night Before Christmas" and watched "Shrek the Halls". "Shrek" has become one of Kelsi's favorite movies in addition to "Tangled" (which she lovingly refers to as Punzel). On Christmas morning the first thing Kelsi wanted to check on was the milk. We showed her it and most of the cookies were gone. She picked up the remainder of a cookie and started eating it on the way to the tree to check out all of her presents.

The presents were wrapped and Kelsi was sure to get every bit of wrapping paper off of each present before checking it out.  She also became very good at unwrapping presents. She loved all the presents, and in between she would say "Hmmm, I pick." After she opened all of her presents we showed her her "big" gift from Santa this year- her kitchen  Her reaction was priceless! There was a lot of "wows!" as she discovered the cupcakes and hotdog and cups, etc. She loves to put something in the microwave or oven and say "Cook. Wait (with arms crossed)" then 5 seconds later "Ready! Eat!".

                                       

She was also very excited when she discovered Donkey and Shrek in one of the boxes. This was a Christmas that we are sure to remember. It was the first one where Kelsi started to understand what was going on, and we had a blast!