Christmas Eve.

Christmas was very "jolly" this year. Christmas Eve was spent at home, where we ate a delicious meal, enjoyed some wine, listened to all the traditional Christmas favorites and even tuned in to watch the continuous Yule Log on the local network tv. Very entertaining. One station was a gas fireplace and on the other was a real wood buring fire. Lovely.

Madeline received a few modest gifts, which was appreciated by her mom and dad (we're running out of drawer space and closet space and she's only 4 months!) Nevertheless, she enjoyed her first Christmas.

"Now what is this toy?......"

"I really like this bow...Sophie, you can open the present if you want...."
"I'm not sure which is my present....this crunchy paper or that other thing?....."

".....or maybe this bow is my present?"

"....well, I like the paper and the bow, you have fun with that other thing."