We spent Christmas Eve up at Grandmom and Grandpa's house, where Sabine first discovered her love of cookies. Some of the gift highlights include a new ladybug tent:
and her first train set. This is a particularly special set, Sabine's great-grandfather made it for Grandpa when he was a little boy, and it has now gone through several generations and survived to encourage all sorts of "whooo-whooo"-ing from Sabine.
Another unexpected favorite was mommy's old hobby horse, which hasn't seen this much love in 20+ years!
On Christmas morning, all of Sabine's immediate family gathered at our house, where we had a nice breakfast and another venture into gift opening. Sabine got the hang of pulling the wrapping paper off, but she couldn't be bothered to do it more than once or twice. She wanted to play with whatever it was that she had just unwrapped. So we left a few presents under the tree to open at a future date. We figure this is probably the last Christmas where there will still be unwrapped presents sitting under the tree a week later!
Some of the highlights from that morning include some books that play music (from Aunt Dani):
And a pink dog from Nana Lin.
Doggie barks and "runs" behind Sabine when she pulls the string, so we've heard a lot of squeaky barking this week.
Then we all went over to Sabine's great aunt and uncle's house for Christmas dinner, where we had a wonderful time catching up with all of the extended family. I forgot to bring my camera, but we had a lovely visit, and ate too much good food, as usual. Sabine had a lot of fun, and hopefully we'll remember to bring the camera next year!
Thanks to everyone for the great holiday!
I love her reindeer dress!! Happy New Year to you and your adorable family :)
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