More Christmas!

After a fun-filled early Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Gropp's the week before Christmas, Adele had so much fun playing with her new doll house that she almost forgot to be excited for the "real" Christmas. A doll house had been on her "Santa" list, and since Grandma and Grandpa fulfilled that wish, she was almost at a loss as to what Santa might bring her. She needed dolls for the dollhouse, but when Memaw and Bapa arrived on Thursday, they brought her some dolls.

Thankfully, I saved a copy of the letter she wrote to Santa. She had asked for a teddy bear, a doll house and a club house for the back yard-this summer we were lucky enough to "borrow" our neighbor's while she was away, but we gave it back this fall. Every night Adele thanks God for her clubhouse "that I gave back to Bailey". It's pretty cute. Despite all of this, right up to Christmas Eve, Adele wasn't quite sure what she thought Santa might bring her.

She went to bed on Christmas Eve without any fussing. She WAS up at 4:00 AM but just wanted to snuggle in Mommy and Daddy's bed (didn't even ask if Santa had been here yet-so I quickly shuffled her into our bed and told her to listen for Santa to keep her quiet!) She was up with Anna at 6, and by 6:30 everyone was up and on their way downstairs. Daddy had the video camera ready:



She took one look into the piano room and had to sit down. (She was also squeezing my finger so hard I thought it would fall off!)


Right there, in the middle of the piano room was her VERY OWN CLUBHOUSE (well...the tag said to Adele AND Anna...but Adele thinks Anna needs to get bigger first...)

Happy Girls in footie jammies:

Anna kept holding out for some new teeth for Christmas, but since then her teething has backed off a little bit. She got a Noah's Ark Little People set from Memaw an Bapa and is thrilled to have a toy all of her own (Adele still sometimes takes away Anna's toys because they're "hers"...we're working on it!)