Christmas 2015

Starting right after Thanksgiving we got out our Elf on the Shelf, which Mila has now named Lucy.  At first she really wasn't into the whole thing, but as Robert started to be the one to move Lucy around Mila got much more into it (apparently Mom is boring...who would've ever thought to have Lucy poop chocolate? Dad, that's who.).  The whole "Lucy is watching, you better be good" thing never worked, maybe that will come as she gets older.  She also had another chocolate advent calendar that Allison got her that she absolutely loved (and it helped her eat her dinner!); it seems this will be a tradition we have every year as well.

Mila and I made cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve and placed them out with a glass of milk before she went to bed.  Robert drank part of the milk and ate the cookie, a little too nicely so I think crumbled crumbs everywhere and we went to bed.  On Christmas morning we woke up to Mila excitedly rushing into our room.  We wandered out to the kitchen, past the half eaten cookie and milk and into the living room where Mila was so sad that Santa hadn't come!!

After a minute she saw the doll she had asked Santa for in front of the tree and was SO excited.  From there she couldn't wait to open presents and was actually more excited about opening the presents than she was about what was in them.

The girls ended up with a lot of cool things: a new slide, a pedal-less bike, a picnic table, books, hats/mittens, developmental toys, playdoh, crazy sand and so much more.  Just when they thought we were done we showed Mila that Santa had also filled their stockings and the excitement started all over again.

After all the presents were opened Mila asked what we were going to do next (approximately 15min from when we first started!) and we didn't have an answer for her, other than "play with your toys!"  She was so caught up in the excitement of opening she wanted to keep the momentum going.  We had a lazy day at home and that evening we boarded a plan to Kansas to meet William Davis Brown.