The Adventures of Sugarmommy and The Little Beauties: Santa

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Christmas Morning

We experienced our first year of "very early wake-up" on Christmas morning.

5:15 a.m.

It was still dark out. Matt and I were startled awake by shrills from upstairs.

Matt's response was "they need to back back to bed for a while." While, remembering back to the many years my brother and I woke my parents before daylight, I responded with, "it's Christmas, they are excited, let's let them open presents!"

The beauties and I outranked Daddy, and the gift opening was on!

Farrah was very excited about her giraffe socks.

Jocelyn of course sporting penguins.

Silvie in her cheetahs.

Chloe smiling in her giraffes.

Silvie took so much time and caution opening each of her gifts. She savored ever moment. Studying, admiring and loving her presents.

Santa brought each of the Beauties new ice skates! The triplets cannot wait to skate like their big sissy.

Farrah with her Farrah Fawcett barbie.

The Kaya doll....oh how badly she wanted this doll.

Chloe and Silvie showing off the gifts they picked out for each other.

Chloe and Farrah showing off their gifts for each other.

Chloe wanting to pose with Jocey, she wasn't in the the camera...

Daddy's holiday tie...it sings Jingle Bells.

The Beauties picked it out for him at the Dollar Store. Priceless.

After the gifts were open...somehow, Daddy talked them into going back to bed before we headed out to Grammy and Poppy's. They actually slept for almost 2 hours. I was amazed...and thankful for the nap.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Warm lights...warmer hearts

The tree trimming was an amazing success. No broken ornaments, and only a few "cat fights" about whose ornament was whose and who was hanging which ones on the tree. I think the key words "a few" are the success here. The Beauties had a great time. They each are very into "mine" and "yours" right now. It was so cute to watch each of them pick one branch and try to hang as many of "their" ornaments on it as possible. Matt and I kept trying to teach them to spread them out, put them all over the tree, not just on one branch. They liked their way much better.

Daddy took turns lifting each one of them to the higher part of the tree. They thought this was wonderful. It was so sweet to see them pick out an ornament and wait in line for their turn with Daddy.

Chloe was in her glory to be able to place the star on top of the tree. Her face beamed as Daddy lifted her up. She fussed over the perfection of the placement for several minutes, before being satisfied with how it looked.

So proud of their masterpiece.

Jocelyn showing her favorite ornament...a penguin.

Posing and blowing kisses.

The tree has been up for three days now. Each day, the ornaments are rearranged several times. We have lost only two thus far. Here's to hoping the number will stay small, as they are crushed when one is broken.
We keep telling them to look with their eyes not their hands...again, they like their way better.

We visited Santa today. Farrah climbed right up into his lap, I was shocked! Silvie was fine just sitting next to him. Although Jocelyn frowned and would not talk to him, she gave him a big hug. It was amazing to watch and listen to their interaction with him. He told them to be sure and be kind to each other. To share and not fight. He told them about putting their toys away when they were finished playing and also to put their dirty clothing in the hamper...it was like he really did have a direct view into our home. (wink) The girls listened so intently with eyes wide as he spoke of the exact things that took place at our house. They were amazed that he really did know.
I so excited for the holidays this year. It makes my heart warm to think about our family and teaching our beauties the meaning of Christmas.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Santa is watching you

Matt and I took the Beauties to see Santa. We were very interested in how the triplets would react to the man in the red suit. We had been at the mall early last week and when we walked past him, they all put their heads down in their hands and would not even look in his direction. Whenever Santa was mentioned, it was met quickly with an "I no like him. I no like Santa." After some convincing on my part, Matt's part, and Gramma Pam's part, we finally got them to say, "I like him. He's nice." So of course we had to give it a try. We went to the first mall, and wouldn't you know it...Santa is only there on weekends. So then we loaded back up and drove to the other mall. Luckily he was working at that mall instead. Wink. We walked up and got into line. It was bring your pet night, so there were plenty of K9 critters to keep them occupied while waiting. As we wrapped around the line, Silvie was getting nervous and started the "I no like him" again. It was our turn, Chloe walked right up and sat down on Santa's lap. This was really the first year she was not gun shy. The triplets were not going anywhere near that jolly dude. We decided a family photos with Santa to be the only option. Farrah cried a lot. She would not even look at the camera. But Daddy got her to look up just enough to see her face in the photo. After the snapshot was taken, Santa and Chloe talked about what she wanted. She told him Moxie girls and Barbies (of course) and Santa told her he was going to bring her some teeth. She thought that was pretty funny. Then it was Silvie's turn. She looked up at him and you could just see the nervousness build in her. But she told him what she wanted. "A pink box. With a cherry." He also told her Farrah wanted one too. Jocelyn took her turn although she was much more reserved than Sil. She told Santa she wanted a "Purple box. With a cherry." Santa said he would do his best. I was so impressed! Three out of four talked to him. That has to be a record. Silvie is still walking around talking about Santa. She also now says he is nice and that she likes him, Jocelyn agrees. Farrah on the other hand, still does not like him. Chloe just can't wait until Christmas!