Christmas Day....

Well, this is the second post of the two I promised for Christmas. It was as special, actually more special than I could have imagined. We woke up around 7:30 and hurried around to get everything set up so we could capture Jetta coming out to see her gifts from Santa Claus. When she first came, she wasn't very happy, as I sat her down and told her to go see her daddy (with his new Cubs hat on her head), she got upset and cried. So, we stopped the camera for a minute and then she was fine. So, back to the plan of recording it was.

She came around the edge of the couch and saw her new quad with Frosty the Snowman on it. She walked over, eyes wide open and proceeded to pull Frosty off the quad and took her spot. She crawled up on it and pushed the button and was very surprised when it took off. She seemed to enjoy it. Then it was time to open all the other many gifts she had under the tree. We helped her open the corners of each package and then let her rip off the paper, many of the gifts were met with a "wow" and wide eyes, others with a big smile. She loved everything and we loved watching her open her gifts. As we neared the end of the huge pile that she had to open, we kept a couple aside so we could call Grandma and Grandpa Peters on Skype and let them enjoy watching her open a few of her gifts from them.

She loved them, one was a patio set with "Mouse" aka Mickey Mouse on it and she just kept saying "Mouse". She is talking so much. Then after she opened her last gift, she just decided she would climb all over the box. She seems to enjoy climbing on boxes these days vs actually playing with the gifts. After we Skyped Grandma and Grandpa, it was time to start cooking for the day. We had our friends Dora, Jason and Zach over to have Christmas dinner with us. It was nice to spend the day with friends.

They also brought Jetta gift, a Ni-hao Kai-lan trike, which talks in both Chinese and English. She loves it, but she's just a tad bit to short to reach the peddles. However, she still loves to climb on it and listen to all its sounds. Last night we played with her and pushed her back and forth and she absolutely loved it. After filling our bellies full of great food, we played a few games and then called it a day. Jetta was so tired, she fell asleep in my arms at the table.

I think she really enjoyed her first Christmas and I know we surely did. We had a great time watching her enjoy Santa Claus, all her presents and believe or not, we actually got some snow on Christmas morning. So, the day was perfect. As of right now I'm not gonna include any video as it is all on the camcorder, but do plan to try to figure that out, but will put some pics of her opening her many gifts. Thanks to everyone who got her something, we really appreciate you thinking of her on her first holiday with us.