Christmas is in the books!

Christmas is in the books...but I'm not quiet ready to take down the decorations yet, so they'll stay a little longer. We had a great Christmas week. We were in Omaha for Christmas Eve and Christmas day, then we headed home to get ready for the Westerfield Christmas sleepover.  

Maggie commented yesterday that she can't believe Santa knew she wanted a bike for her doll, even though she didn't tell him. Gracie quickly replied "that's because Santa knows everything, just like me and Lillian." So apparently Santa has been welcomed to the 'know it all' club.

This morning Maggie had to visit the hand doctor. Her thumb is still pretty different looking, but he decided it's healing and there is no reason to put her through surgery and pins. The hope is that as she grows it will look less crooked and he thinks she will have all the mobility and use back in it either way. She was thrilled to get a new (purple again) cast, and this time her thumb nail sticks out, so she's pretty sure we should paint it.

Annual Christmas Eve lunch at Danny's. It just wouldn't be Christmas without greasy burgers!

Pretty girls are ready for Christmas Eve.

Waiting to see if Santa came. When I went into the girls room to see if they were awake, Gracie asked me if
Santa come, I told her yes. She was visibly relieved and said she was going to rest a little more before she got up. I guess
as long as he came, she didn't think she needed to rush out of bed.

Santa brought Gracie a school desk and a scooter for her doll.

Santa brought Maggie a new bike (with HAND BREAKS), a bike for her doll and Oakley sunglasses.

Listening to Great-Grandma read the Christmas story at Aunt Joyce's.

Uncle Mike made Maggie her very own button box. She started sorting the big bag of buttons right away. There have
been lots of hard decisions about how to sort them...by size, by color....decisions, decisions :)

Uncle Deem helped Gracie with some new legos.

Saturday morning we woke up to a few new inches of snow, so when the Westerfield's arrived for Christmas we did some extreme sledding :)

 

Yesterday the girls went to the office to judge the annual Christmas ornament contest. Maggie takes great pride in her judging and delivering of the prizes....as you can see, Gracie is a little less committed :)

The girls had a swimming Birthday party to go to last night. We found this waterproof cast cover on Amazon, and since we knew she was getting a new cast today, we decided to give it a go. The cast cover worked great....until we took it off so she could use the restroom and she forgot all about it and jumped right in the pool! ooooppps! She caught it quickly and once she was reassured that it wasn't going to hurt her thumb, it was just going to be a little uncomfortable, she covered it and headed back in the water. Between the hairdryer and the vacuum it was pretty dry by the time she went to bed (but it sure did stink!)

This morning she got a new cast. It had to be purple again so it could match Jude's halter. We had to wait a little longer in the doctors building for it to dry all the way. It's so COLD out today it would have frozen if it was still damp.

We've are blessed to get to spend the holidays with so much great family and friends. I can't believe how fast it all goes. We have another week of Christmas break, so there will be lots of time to play with all our new toys! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!