Another Dose of Christmas!

Today was a much better day for us than yesterday. It's too bad that yesterday was officially Christmas because Andrina had a fever yesterday and was cranky all day. My poor baby woke up crying on Christmas day and I felt so bad for her. Because she wasa not feeling good, it took us literally all day long yesterday to get Andrina to open her presents. Today was much better, her fever is gone and she is back to her happy little self. So here's more pictures of her playing with more Christmas presents from this morning...

I got her a toy shopping cart because she loves to push things!

I apparantly made a good choice!

Andrina is pointing to the doll and verbally telling me that it's Ernie
On her new pink pony ride-on

Playing with her new mega-blocks. She has spent a lot of time playing with these blocks. I knew she'd really like them when I bought them!

And from tonight at Doreen's for our Christmas get-together:

Andrina and Grandpa

Opening more presents!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2008

Here's some pictures from our Christmas today. They are mainly of Andrina with her gifts:

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Happy 1st Christmas Andrina!

The three of us enjoyed a very quiet Christmas at home this year, celebrating not only Christmas but Andrina's first Christmas. To start the day off, I made pumpkin spice pancakes and scrambled eggs. Very yummy! Then Andrina got to open her presents from Tom and I and to finish off the day, we made Christmas dinner: ham, green bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, and Hawaiian sweet rolls. Very, very yummy! Andrina needed to nap throughout the day and she played with her new toys, old toys, and was basically held and cuddled all day long (wait a minute, that's exactly like any other day...). We also got a little over an hour total of video throughout the day. I was getting anxious to start videoing earlier in the day and Andrina was down for her first nap of the day so I started the video of the dogs getting their new toys for Christmas. Towards the end of the day, Tom and I watched some holiday movies, namely A Muppet Christmas Carol, my personal favorite Christmas movie which I must have on every year. Andrina got to watch some of it while sitting on my lap. Although it was mainly on as a background as she was so cute cooing and babbling so the three of us were talking to each other as opposed to watching the movie. Here's some pictures:

With Daddy while opening presents

Playing with a new tiger toy from Auntie Reenie

Tummy time with new toys from Mommy and Daddy

From a few weeks ago, Andrina helping to pick out ornaments for the tree.

Andrina's ornaments and a family one for this year.

Playtime during dinner for baby.

Mommy and Baby on Christmas

Daddy and Baby while making dinner.

Christmas treats for Teenie...

...and Mina...

Lucy got the ham bone outside after dinner. There's no picture of that though... but trust me, she LOVED it!

...and new toys for the dogs too.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Happy 1st Christmas Andrina!

You were the best part of the day!

"I Think The Tree Needs More Lights"

Said Tom when we finally got all the lights up on it tonight. I don't know, I think it's got enough lights on it already? What do you guys think? By the way, all that glow in the picture, that's all emanating from the Christmas tree lights, nothing else!