Christmas

Merry Christmas from our chaos to yours!

Christmas has come and gone and it flew by with a flash. Presents galore and sweet treats ta-boot  We started out by waking at 7:30am at Grandma and Grandpa Starnes house and opened gifts. Natalie was a hoot. She helped with opening her many, many, too many gifts, however, that only lasted a while. Aunt Whit had a special gift, a rocking horse, to surprise Natalie with. Let's just say she was surprised.

This cute horse doesn't look scary, does it?

She is still too scared of the cute horse and prefers that it stays in the corner and does not "clippidy-clop-clippidy-clop." She was showered with fun toys, educational toys, cute pj's and more. Her special gift from Santa (Grandparents) was a walker/rider toy. Lots of bells and whistles. Lots. Here is her giving it a test ride.

First test ride

 Bouncing back and forth between all of us she scooted to help "eat" all wrapping paper shreds.

Look what I found! Candy!

Minnie wagon with lots of goodies

Shake, rattle and roll

I think she likes it!

Does this train set come with ribbon? Then YES, I love it.

You signed my book? How thoughtful.

Mom is a bag lady

Everybody needs a tag

Grandpa/Grandma's pretty tree

Can I eat the tree Aunt Whit?

Shortly after we finished, it was clear she was wiped out, we headed into Roseburg to see Aunt Kimmie, Uncle Allen, cousin Brinley and Grandma (Tutu.)

More presents were there. Shocking. Santa found their house too. We opened slowly at first, but wore the little ones out. They finally took a snooze. During their awake time, they became good buddies. First it was Brinley that was so into Natalie. Natalie would crawl away with Brinley right behind her. Later, Natalie realized she was cool stuff. They began playing together. So cute! 

New toys? Naaah, we will play with all the old ones first.

The last and final gift was a doozy. There was a little assembly required, but the Dad's were able to complete the task rather quickly. Here it is!

Tutu was doing some major cheering! She wanted both to win the race of course. 

Brinley was making sure Natalie was good. Yep. Couldn't be happier.

Cool and calm as always, as she leans for a tight corner coming up.

Cutie pa-tootie

I love my new car Tutu!

Toot Toot!

Natalie is starting to stand alone and take some steps. As soon as she realizes she is nearly walking without support, she carefully drops to the ground and scoots away. There is a chance, she will soon walk. Not sure we are ready for it, but we will be ready to do some serious chasing soon.
Natalie also received a cool gift that the adults also enjoyed. Her very first business. A Sweet Shop. Grandpa and Grandma gave her this business to help start her college fund.

Aunt Whit was boring her. Maybe if she flopped on her back, she would stop. 

Dad took the first shift in the sweet shop to iron out the kinks.

Writing out her business plan on the wall.

"No Dad, more PINK!"

Such a good supervisor already.

I think Nat was going to attack Tutu any moment.

Grandparents are the best

Uncle Allen, Cousin Brinley and Aunt Kimmie looking great as always

Aunt Whit took a shift in it as well.

Christmas Eve with Aunt Kim, Brinley, Natalie and Mom

Is that a bushy beard with Nat and Mom? Yes. It very much is.

What a doll!

Nat attach

Thank you family and friends for such a wonderful first holiday with Natalie. We look forward to all the more magic throughout the year and many more Christmas' to follow. Cheer and Happy New Year.