First Christmas

Christmas Eve, Little Bird had a typical day of crawling and playing and eating and pulling herself up and sleeping, while Caleb worked from home. Camberly also had a busy day of work at the hospital dealing with all the "emergency surgeries."

That evening we headed over to the Sheltons for an appetizer dinner, which is one of the traditions that they have developed. Thank you for all the delicious food. This was followed by the traditional Nativity portrayal, complete with a tiger, camels, wise guys, and baby LB. Quite entertaining.

The kids did a great job gathering around Ryan as he read the Polar Express. (I think Little Bird mainly wanted to try to get the book to eat it but the others were very attentive.)

After staying up until 3am "finishing" the quilted Christmas stockings, crazy Camberly was glad for the slow start on Christmas morning. 

The tradition of wrapping the gifts in bags with ribbons was great this year because Little Bird loves ribbon. 

And it prevented a lot of what is in the following pictures. LB ripping wrapping paper off and immediately trying to stick it in her mouth. If we weren't quick enough to stop her, this would then be followed with the struggle to get it out of her mouth. She can clench her jaws together surprisingly hard.

Little Bird ended up with lots of fun new toys to play with and now Sadie and Sylvester have many more temptations to try to get.

We enjoyed the nice relaxing day at home with nothing to accomplish and taking with far away family 

on the ipad. 

Merry Christmas!!