Christmastime Is Here

I'm a little late in posting this but I'm still trying to get back into the swing of things. This year all my Christmas traditions did not go as they normally do, but it was still a great Christmas. My stepbrother came over to spend the night with us and my mom sent him and my stepdad to their bedrooms for the night while me and her got everything ready for Christmas day. My mom finished cleaning the house up as well as start cooking all the food. We stayed up until close to 3 a.m. and then my mom took a quick (i mean like maybe 10-15 min.) nap on the couch and then I laid down for a little bit too. Maddy was having some bad dreams or something because she kept waking up crying saying "Mama" which is highly unusual for her. I went in there and she was sitting up in her bed and she wanted me to pick her up. I was able to get her back down, but she cried again around 5:40 a.m. and I decided to go ahead and go to bed then and sleep in her bed. We woke up around 7:40 a.m. and she seemed pretty rested. When I came out to finish getting everything ready for her to come out, her dad was here. There was no carrying her to her Christmas this year...she went flying into the living room just as she does every other morning.

This is what Maddy woke up to :)

Maddy was so cute when she decorated her cookies for santa. Instead of putting the decorations on the cookie, she wanted to sort them out on the plate. She enjoyed eating the decorations and thought santa would prefer to just eat them as well

This was the picture of her running into the living room. When I was changing her diaper I asked her if she wanted to go see if santa ate his cookies and milk and as you can see she went straight to the plate. We left santa several cookies and he only left one. We also noticed he must have dipped his cookie in the milk cause there were crumbs in the milk.

Before diving into the presents she had to sit back and take it all in

It didn't take long before she was up and playing. There was a big difference in this Christmas verses last Christmas. Last Christmas she was really shy and didn't want to get out of my lap. This Christmas she was not shy at all and started playing pretty much right away. Amazing what a year's difference can bring.

At Maddy's school they wear smock's to keep clean when painting. Santa thought she would enjoy wearing a smock at home and brought these really neat paints that only show up on the special paper. She really enjoyed painting at home and would ask to wear her smock before she did so...she's so smart!

She also really enjoyed playing with her kitchen. I'm hoping she has fun with it for a while:)

After playing the toys santa brought it was time to start opening the other presents.

She opened roughly two presents before she started saying no to presents. Her exact words were, "Nooooo....no presents"

This purple house is really neat. It's "The Little People" and Maddy absolutely loves it! She will make them walk up the steps, tell me they have to go potty, and that they are night night. She is really starting to use her imagination and it is really neat seeing it come out

After I realized she was just done with presents I decided it was time to do stockings.

She discovered there was lots of chocolate in there, but santa also left her a note...here is what it said:

She cracked me up because she would just push the petal down without steering and it was like she expected it to just ride her around lol. I didn't expect her to have the concept of the car by any means...it just looked funny to watch. She also had to have her chocolate with her at all times. She would start and stop her car. She really enjoyed playing in her car and it is murder trying to get her out of it.

After finally getting her inside we decided to try to open a few more presents...

After Maddy was done with her presents and stocking it was mommy's turn to open her present

When I first opened it I wasn't sure if it was a dvd player or blu-ray. I was quickly trying to skim through and ended up just asking lol. I was completely surprised! I had no idea these things could hook up through the internet and play pandora and netflix and blockbuster and even facebook onn your tv! I also got a scrapbook storage tote. I have been trying to get one for a while now but they are so expensive and I wouldn't pay full price for it. My mom got a really good deal on this one and I am so very thankful she did because I absolutely love it! My other gift is she preordered the movie Courageous for me and it was the blu-ray/dvd combo. I have been anxiously awaiting this movie to come out on dvd since I couldn't go see it in theater's. In case you want to know it comes out on January 17th. I have learned a lot through their movie Facing the Giants and Fireproof and I'm sure I will learn something new through Courageous. Last but not least my mom got me a bottle of my favorite scent of lotion from bath and body works...sweet pea. I'm not one to just put lotion on throughout the day but i have been doing so multiple times throughout the day with it. My family does a chinese Christmas. What that is is instead of buying gifts for people we each buy a $20 gift and wrap it up. We still buy gifts for children but anybody 18 and up either does the chinese Christmas or they get nothing lol. Once everybody gets wherever Christmas is being held..this year it was our house...we eat and then count how many people are participating and make sure we have enough gifts to play. We then draw numbers and that is the order we go. Number 1 has it kinda bad because they are the first to go and don't have the option of stealing anything. The rest of the numbers can either pick a new present or steal from someone who has already opened a gift. When an item has been stolen three times it can no longer be stolen again. The rest of the pictures are of my family eating and playing and possibly some video I took on my phone of Maddy opening presents: