Santa Claus Came to Town

Christmas was a lot of fun this year. This was the first year that I'd say that Sophia was really into Santa, so we enjoyed putting out cookies, milk and reindeer snacks. She was excited to get goodies in her stocking (it's amazing that she isn't hounding us to eat the chocolate) and get that "blue camera" that she requested. Our family and friends were SO generous and gave her so many wonderful gifts. Sophia is seriously spoiled, and there is no doubt about it. Luckily she still doesn't expect it and is a gracious gift receiver. She loves all of her toys and clothes and asks me to remind her all the time of who gave her a particular toy and tells me that we need to send a thank you because it is so nice. (We are still working on those.)

There are just too many pictures from the holiday to post here, so they are in our online photo album (just click on the flashing photos up in the corner of the page to go there). Franco was home and we visited with lots of family in a just a few days. Sophia came down with a cold, so she was a little uncomfortable, but she recovered pretty quickly and (miraculously) I was spared of this one.