Be prepaaaared!
(Did you just sing that like the song from Lion King? That's what I was going for.)
Be prepared for a gazillion Christmas morning pictures. This is the only warning I will give.
We had a wonderful Christmas day. As usual, we had to wake Sissy up to open presents. Baby slept in a bit since we went to bed late, so that was a nice break from her usual pre-dawn routine. Santa carefully filled our stockings and piled gifts under the tree. Then he was kind enough to snap a photo before scurrying back up the chimney.
The old boy was very generous this year. Baby received necklaces and fruit snacks in her stocking. She had those eaten before we were done opening gifts. There was also a Koosh ball, a water bottle, bath toys, and 2 books: "Uni the Unicorn" and "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb". We read the latter over and over again.
Sissy was the proud new owner of the video game Cuphead, TriForce earrings, The One ring, every color of Posca marker, Weird but True book and her annual gift of the National Geographic Almanac, Ferrofluid, a swim coat, a pen that looks like Harry Potter's wand, a Movie Cats calendar, and loads and loads of candy. Her favorite gift of all was Zelda controllers for the Nintendo Switch. Mrs. Claus almost didn't purchase those. It was an impulse buy and I talked myself out of it 4 times before I did it. Thank goodness for Santa and his ability to see the future and know that Sissy would adore them.
Sissy drew us a picture of an outline of a family photo. I loved it.
Mykey received a DNA test kit, a new Cirkul water bottle, and the entire Shadow book series. Sissy painstakingly designed and 3D printed a case to hold all the books. Hours and hours went into that project. It was amazing in the end.
Booney received new wooden spatulas and a bracelet. But no one took any photos because Booney is obviously unimportant. (I kid, I kid. I know I'm not unimportant. I'm just unnoticed)
We spent the balance of the day continuing our work on an impossible puzzle of the map of the Zelda world. It was Sissy's birthday gift from cousins and it was the worst puzzle of all time. Everything was the same color. Between the frustration of not being able to find connecting pieces, and Baby knocking things off the table every 2 minutes, we gave up.
Very unsatisfying.
But don't worry, Baby had plenty of satisfaction having us read "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb" 10,563,987 times.
As the afternoon rolled forth, I made a real Christmas dinner, complete with Honey Baked ham and butter rolls. (She never does that!) When I asked Sissy to sit up nicely and smile, I received this:
And that sums it up.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!