Christmas 2010

Jayda at 14 months, just doesn't understand how excited she should be that Santa is coming. It's Christmas eve and she is just ho-humming around, not anxious, not nervous, not caring if she has been naughty or nice even!



I explain to her that we have to put out cookies & milk for Santa...and she tries to eat the cookies herself!











We follow our normal night routine and she goes to bed without any fanfare.



Christmas day arrives and Jayda actually wakes up a bit earlier than normal, maybe she heard the reindeer on the roof. Mommy gets her ready to go down and see the Christmas tree.











But first we have to double check the cookies to see if Santa actually came. Yep, someone took a bite out of one of them!











The news that Santa has come begins to set in, she wants to go downstairs...NOW!











But much like I had to as a child, she has to wait, and wait and wait on "the stairs"






Finally the time has come and she is unleashed, crawling around the corner like a mad woman she sees the mother-lode








Now the opening and play can begin...











This phone she would carry for the next 3 days occasionally holding it to her ear and talking into it.











She liked her snowsuit but wasn't a big fan of the mittens, she wanted nothing to do with the mittens...











Hey a baby doll! I love Christmas!











3 Xmas videos:

December 2010

This will probably be the last Christmas that Jayda will have where she will have no idea who this guy is



To say that she was a bit un-nerved by this old man holding her would be a massive understatement. She didn't like it one bit. She just stared at him for quite awhile before opening the water works. Luckily, we got this priceless picture of the situation before she attempted to wiggle free of her situation.

In the weeks before Christmas we tried to watch her for clues as to what she would enjoy playing with in the coming months. However, all we found was that she really likes playing with an old pacifier that daddy bought her that she didn't even like when she was using a pacifier(she's been 'pacifier-free' for months now). Maybe she'd like vampire-based toys?





She did however enjoy setting up the xmas tree and making a mess in all the cords and lights.









Here are a couple more pics before Christmas





Up next Christmas!