Saturday, December 31, 2005
Christmas Part 1
As planned, finally, here are some of the Christmas pictures in numbers greater than one or two at a time. I believe there will be three parts to this, corresponding to having filled and emptied the camera three times that day. Why yes, I do need a bigger memory stick. Heh.
The first one shows most of our cards received. They overflowed to the other doorway, as you will see in the second picture. This includes cards from Sharon, Jennifer, Wayne, Caltechgirl, and Kate. Others on our card list included Rob, Jeff, Chan, Ith, Dean & Rosemary, Kate, Jen, Rob, Frank & Sarah, John, and Joanie. Ian will get a one after he has moved and sent me his new address. I’ll undoubtedly try to add some other blog friends to the list next year. Then if I do this post again next year, I’ll have an excuse for even more gratuitous linkage.
The second picture shows the tree and the loot before Sadie was up and at it. I think we spent four hours with her unwrapping and then playing with stuff before moving on, with the two of us incidentally unwrapping Bo Bice, some cake pans, and some sweatshirts interspersed with Sadie’s spoilage. The third picture shows her Nemo floor pillow, which is so cool. That’s what came in the giant box we didn’t bother to wrap. Her great-grandmother also sent the super deluxe Finding Nemo DVD package.
Here Sadie is emptying her stocking, and then playing with one of the balls that made up the bulk of the contents.
Next she’s opening her butterfly bedtime book, which is totally cool. She agreed. Finally, she’s opening one of three wooden puzzles, which she is crazy about, even though she’s not clear on the concept of putting the pieces back in. She takes them out, then is thrilled of someone puts them back so she can remove them again. We put the hardest one, a train, away for future reference rather than have her lose pieces before she’s ready for it.
More later.