Our Christmas!

(sorry for the awkward formatting. I'm still learning how to use Blogger and can't seem to add pictures correctly. No matter what layout I choose, the picture automatically goes to the top of the page...)

I ended up having to wake WS up to set Remi's playhouse up! I had a ton of presents to wrap. I thought about wrapping them ahead of time but I'm always worried that Noah will find them. Plus, I'm doing lots of returning and switching out especially if items I've already purchased go on sale! And I have a tendency to forget what I bought since I'm always hiding them in different parts of the house. I'm super paranoid about ruining the whole Santa myth with Noah so I have to make sure to use special wrapping paper he's never seen and get rid of any trace of it!


Here is the tree with all the presents underneath. The green paper is what Santa used for his gifts. The white paper in the back are the presents from mom and dad. Noah wrote his Christmas list a few weeks ago and Santa tried his hardest to get what he could. It was a list of about 10? things. He got about 8 of those and some additional toys from Santa. He asked for: 2 different Nerf guns, 2 different bakugan (Santa TRIED to find the exact 2 he wanted but who can tell those things apart? They ended up not being the right ones but Noah didn't mind), 1 webkinz, legos, k'nex and a happy sac. I had no idea what a happy sac was. He tried to explain to me. It seems as though they used to sell them at the school store and it seems like some combination of a hackey sack/stress ball. This is what he REALLY wanted but Santa couldn't find it!


Cookies for Santa!

Luckily, Noah slept in until about 9am (which is late for him). We came and woke us up telling us Santa had come, that he had taken the card he made for him, eaten 2 cookies and he could actually see a footprint in the carpet! (I think it was from Wonsuk's slippers). We started opening presents right away. We were excited for Remi to open her's too but she didn't quite "get" the unwrapping yet. She didn't like the tearing sound of the paper! WS ended up opening her gifts for her but she was happy once the wrapping paper was off!

Remi is a trip. She put half of the zhu zhu hamster ball on her head with Noah's glasses from his Nerf Dart Tag set. She wasn't even like, "Look at my funny outfit hahahaha." She would just play, stop, put on hamster ball and glasses, then keep playing." We were chuckling at her all day.

Oh, and she kept on putting that Zhu Zhu pet into her play oven -and the pet had to be on. We kept taking it out but she'd get mad at us and put it back in. hahaha.

As you can see, she was finally getting herself off of the couch. Her toes are taped together and she would refuse to walk. The grandparents came over later and lo and behold, once she saw that scooter (from my aunt) she was UP. She made WS ride her around the house and even tried to ride the tricycle from my parents. Sorry there are no pics of my parents. hahaha. We had a pretty low key Christmas this year since my sis and her family weren't here to celebrate with us. When my parents came over, the kids opened their toys from them. Well, actually, from them and bought by me. They get nervous trying to pick toys out for the kids. hahaha

I was able to take a nap since I had been up until about 4am. Then, instead of a regular Christmas dinner we went to a Japanese buffet! I had planned on cooking but the night I was supposed to go shopping we were in the ER with Remi's dislocated toe. I decided then and there I had not the energy nor the interest in shopping for a big meal and cooking. We've postponed our big Christmas meal for when my sis, jason and baby e come later in the week!

So this is the mess that I've been cleaning up for the past 2 days. Not just this pile but finding space for the toys in an already maxed out playroom. Noah and I went through his toys yesterday and purged a TON. We boxed a lot of things up and put them in the attic since Remi might want to play with them later. We threw some away that had missing parts and put a box together to give away.

Told you she loved her hamster ball hat...