Christmas morning 2009

This day started way too early, but thank goodness it only comes around once a year. Connor got up to go to the bathroom at 4:30am to realize that Santa left the opened wrapper to his granola bar on the dining room table. Connor come back the hallway letting us know that Santas been here so we had to get up and see what was left under the tree. I have so many Christmas pictures and they can all be seen on my dropshot account, but I'll post my favorite expressions of Christmas morning.

First off, they are looking through to see which ones were theirs, but Santa made it real easy on the kids this year - all the maroon ones were Connor's and the gold ones were Maleah's.



Connor's behavior has been pretty poor for the last few months and he has been warned that he needed to improve or he'd get NOTHING, and if it did improve he MIGHT get clothes at best. Well somewhere deep down in, Santa felt the need to bring him gifts despite all the temper tantrums, defiance and meanness toward his sister. Maybe it was the apology letter sitting with the granola bar that changed Santa's mind. ;-)



After opening two boxes of clothes, Connor realized in the bottom of the jeans box was a Lego platform and from there the toys began.





And of course, Connor got to open the family gift. He seems to think it was for him, but really it was for the whole family.



Some of Maleah's expressions are priceless.




Maleah always likes getting new clothes, I guess just not on Christmas morning where it takes place of toys. This makes me laugh.




We had a wonderful Christmas and we are so blessed to have these 2 wonderful children to experience the excitment of Christmas. I hope this wasn't our last magical Christmas where Connor still believes in Santa. I'm hoping for at least a couple more years of believing. We can hope for that!