We had the Wilcox family Christmas (all 6 of us) as we usually do at our house on Christmas Eve. We prepared all of our edible favorites and watched as Ava and Reese opened 187 presents. Ended the evening with Santa prep - the girls were so excited for what might show up the next morning! Gave detailed instructions to Ava - "Stay in your room until 7:00. Come straight to Mom & Dad's room. Don't wake up your sister. Don't go downstairs." Repeated. And repeated again.
Ava's first visit to our room was at 12:01 am.
After ushering her back into bed, she did actually stay there until 7:00 am. And was in our room 3 seconds later. Reese heard the commotion and came in too. Scot and I weren't yet quite at the same level of hysteria, so I suggested some cartoons while we gave ourselves some transition time. The girls seemed to forget about Santa pretty quickly once a Dora Christmas show came on. About 20 minutes later I was ready to get up and start making monkey bread. I asked if they were ready to go downstairs. Nope, they just wanted to keep watching cartoons. Seriously...
Eventually we were all around the tree surveying the goods that came overnight.
A few weeks prior, Santa actually came to New Horizon!
At that exchange, Ava asked for an ipod. Reese asked for underwear.
Check, check. Well, Santa actually got Ava a non-Apple mp3 player but she doesn't know Santa sometimes considers price and practicality over ambitious wishes. (This would be kind of like the Target "American Girl" dolls she has). Reese did in fact get 6 pairs of underwear, which she was delighted to see. In an earlier letter to Santa, Ava also asked for Charm School Barbie (aka "Barbie that balloons out") and Reese asked for a Dora toy. These things also miraculously appeared under the tree. Stocking stuffers & a few games rounded out the loot. Santa delivered!
The rest of the morning and day was actually pretty low key as Ava and Reese checked out all of their new stuff - they stayed really busy. And after bedtime, we got to see a fun Packers win. What a wonderful day!
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