finally it's Christmas (on the blog)...

here are some pictures from Christmas eve at grammy & pappy's house. mommy was pretty excited about the red & green outfit i have on (she made this one!) but i did NoT like it. i obliged her for this one evening & agreed to wear it. i really enjoyed visiting with my cousin madison who was in town from missouri. we went to a candlelight service at st mark. the last carol we sang at the service was "silent night." as we sang, people lit their candles until all the candles were lit around a huge circle of people. the minister began the benediction, but i yelled out, "do you want to sing it again?" i did not wait for an answer, but just began my own solo. many people at the service heard me -- i actually think it complimented the benediction nicely. i sang on-pitch & at a very respectful volume. i wish we could have had some pictures of that!

we opened some gifts on christmas eve. you can see how excited i was to get this pirate ship!! i had admired it on various trips to costco!

everyone got a kick out of watching madison & me fight over the light switch. she wanted the lights off & i wanted them on. we were quite civil with each other -- no hitting or even screaming. each of us would just turn the light off/on & the other one would pout a little. pretty funny.

here is our den on Christmas morning before i plowed into all the new toys. my BiG present was the dollhouse. on Christmas day, i played with it for about 14 hours -- no kidding.

i love this dollhouse. i think it is sized for barbies, but i am not really into barbies yet. i played with my loopsies & little people & squinkies. maybe this is the perfect house for them because there is plenty of room for me to move them around.

and i can fit a whole bunch of them in the bed at one time. i enjoyed putting them in the bed & then singing, "there were 10 in the bed and the little one said, roll over, roll over. so they all rolled over & one fell out. there were 9 in the bed..."