Christmas Eve and Day

An eventful couple of days can go by, and picture opportunities can be easily missed. I missed about 98% of those opportunities, so here are a couple from the past few days.

You know, dressing a kid up for special occassions is somewhat pointless. Wren stayed in this outfit for maybe the first quarter of the day, and then she ate a meal. Enough said.

But the toque always kills me, it's just so cute!

We spent a cozy Christmas Eve at my parent's house. So many goodies, it was nice to just hang out and basically watch Wrennie play. What else does a group of adults do when a child is in the room?

Aunty and Wrennie play with Abby Cadabby and the magic wand. Now Wrennie has her two most favourite dolls, Abby and Elmo!

This year I put together a photo book of Wren's first year for both of our parents. I made it on our computer with the iPhoto program, and it turned out amazing. My parents were beside themselves...in happiness! I was going to put up a photo of Kenton's parents opening their book, but Kyle got in the picture and he was only wearing a nightgown...no one needs to see that! ha!

Christmas 2010 family photo. I can't even find a family photo from last year to give you the comparison.

Wrennie also received a baby dolly. All she really wanted to do was bite it's toes. Maybe we will have to reintroduce the dolly at a later time...

Then we spent Christmas Day at Nana and Papa's. We brought Wren's little chair to sit in and enjoy opening presents by the fireplace.

In this picture, Nana is holding an Elmo tree ornament that talks and has music. Wren is playing with her blocks that she got from her uncles. They may be in her top 3 of favourite gifts, as she loves to knock down towers made from them.

 Nana and Papa also bought her a sled for going on winter walks. Fun!

Sadly I did not get any more pictures from that day...maybe someone else did and they want to send them to me?
After spending the morning at Kenton's parents, we went to his aunt and uncles in St. Albert where the rest of Kenton's relatives were for games and food. A few of us girls even took Wren for her first sled ride down by the lake, which she seemed to enjoy although it was hard to tell as her expression did not change throughout the ride. The lake is also part of a dog park, and Wren is terrified of dogs...like...convulses and cries. I am not exaggerating! So every so often when a dog came bounding near us, we had to move on pretty quick!

All in all, we had a great couple of days, and now Wrennie is played out. She actually has the flu...but hey, now all the festivities are done and we can all bum around home :)

Until next Christmas...