Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas holiday. We spent Christmas Eve at our house with my sister and her family. We ate our traditional Italian dinner with homemade ravioli. We then took part in another tradition of the children opening one gift. Owen and Aliya get to open their gift from Nanny which was awesome clothes.
That night, Owen set out cookies and milk for Santa. As I put him to bed, I told him that Santa can only come to our house if all the children are asleep. He didn't come out once that night. Can we use the Santa trick every night?
The next morning we went downstairs and showed Owen that Santa had eaten the cookies and drank the milk. He was so engrossed in the empty dish that he didn't even go look to see what Santa brought him. We finally got him into the family room where he saw his tools. Aliya received a dollhouse and they both got table, chairs, and play food. They then looked in their stockings.
After breakfast, we opened gifts from family. Every time Owen got a book, he had to stop and read it! And when Aliya got a book, he had to stop and read hers too! After a while Owen got tired of opening presents and just wanted to play.
We had lunch at my sister's and opened a few more presents before we headed home for a much needed nap. It was a very nice Christmas.

Pretty Aliya.


Owen opening his Christmas Eve present.


The family - as a good as it gets.


Which one should I eat?


Owen fixing the dollhouse.


Owen reading a book.


Opening a gift.


Playing with the new toys.


"Send it in Jerome"


Really, another picture?


Here are some more gifts.