After Christmas Eve mass, we headed to GiGi's to eat dinner and spend the night waiting for Santa Claus. I must admit we didn't last for the entire mass. We arrived 30 minutes early, which was 30 minutes too late to get a seat. By the time mass started Reese was hungry so we headed out shortly after. It's so hard with young ones because if you go early to get a seat, they'll be tired when mass starts, but if you go right when it begins you are standing in the lobby and have to watch on the tele-prompter. Oh well, God knew we had good intentions.
After a delicious meal of Grandma Ruth's beef enchiladas we let the kids open one gift a piece. Well, Reese opened them both as Lane isn't quite big enough yet. ;)
What did they get? Christmas pj's! I think we started a new tradition! I found cute gingerbread woman/man pj's for both of them at Gymboree and The Children's Place. They were so cute!
I just love this picture of Reese by the tree.
And this one of Lane sprawled out on the couch. The baby boy has a belly!
We have not mastered the whole 'Reese holding Lane' picture thing yet, but we'll get it eventually. 
Before bed time, we baked chocolate chip cookies for Santa. Reese insisted we take our cookie dough from home so we could bake them at GiGi's. When we woke up Christmas morning look what we found under the tree! Toys, toys and more toys!
Reese got the Dora Doll House she had asked for. It entertained her the rest of the morning and all day long. She really was not interested in opening anymore gifts after that.
Our stockings were full of goodies too! Reese absolutely loves her new Dora "termos" as she calls it. So much that she wanted to take mac 'n cheese w/broccoli every day in her lunch. One morning I tried to give her pb&j because the mac 'n cheese was on it's fourth day. She insisted on taking the mac, so I had to cook a fresh batch that morning before taking her to school. Luckily, I was still on leave and didn't start back to work until the next day. ;)
The Thomas train set and Cars cars and play mat were a big hit too. She received every car from the movie - they are so neat!
When Lane was not sleeping, he enjoyed the morning in his bouncer. Yes, he likes it now!
About to enjoy bubble bread!
Reese wanted to help everyone open their gifts.
After opening tons of gifts, we headed home to get ready and then went to MaMa Pat's. Lane and Reese were so cute in their Christmas outfits. Reese finally agreed to wear her dress!!!
Santa brought Reese a Moon Dough barn set which she absolutely loved, but it was a huge mess! MaMa Pat didn't mind, but I was thinking 'way to go' Santa! Who knew it would be so messy??? When you see the commercial you think it is like play dough, but it's very powdery.
Reese had a blast! The floor got the brunt of it along with the table cloth.
The crank was broken and with all the mess, I made the toy disappear after Christmas. Reese kept asking where her orange crank, red barn, yellow hay and blue moon dough were. The child has the memory of an elephant. I told her that it was broken and I put it in the trash, but she kept asking about it so I gave in and replaced it. I will wrap it up for her birthday and deal with the mess. It's worth seeing her enjoy it so much. :) Pat said it vacuumed up easily! Let's hope so.
Reese and her Great Aunt/Godmother Sharon played with the Dora Doll House.
A few family pictures at the end of a great day. Can you tell which one is Matt?
Scott, Lauren and Copa. Now you know which one is Scott. ;)
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