Oh my goodness!

Still half-asleep at 6:10, we heard little footsteps coming down the hallway. We told Emma to come knock on our door and say Merry Christmas when she woke up, and then we would open presents. But we left our door open, so she just stood there, and finally I got up. She said, "its light out, the sun came up," because the full moon was so bright. (I had also told her to wait for it to be light.) so we went downstairs and opened presents. I should have taken more pictures than I did today. We got her a little white teddy bear (all she asked for), and a dolly car seat. She has been carrying the teddy bear around in the car seat all day. She calls it her very special bear. She was so much fun...lots of giggles and excited laughter. While opening stockings she kept saying, "oh my goodness, oh my goodness," over and over. Several times whatever she got was just what she always wanted...even if she wasn't sure what it was. (She learned this line from Pooh.) We had biscuits and gravy and monkey bread for breakfast and also skyped with my family, and later Steven's family. For dinner we went to a friend from PWOC/chaplain's house, where we all had fabulous time. On the way home we stopped by station 2 to wish the guys a Merry Christmas and unload the rest of our desserts on them...they obliged. :) It was a very good, long day. Thank you all and Merry Christmas!

We let her open presents from Aunt Emily on Christmas Eve (Noah's ark), and the nativity set we got her to explain the Christmas story. Although we left Joseph at chapel. 

Opening presents

Pepper had a good Christmas, too. 

She didn't even know what it was at this point. 

She had fun bringing us our presents.

A scarf like mommy!

The aftermath. I promise we had cleaned up already once. And it's clean now again, but it looked like a tornado went through.