Merry Christmas Day!

Santa came! 

The dollhouse was clearly a hit, and I'm not sure Cora was very into Santa and presents until she saw the doll house around the corner.

Once again, Santa brought a babystroller this year. It was the #1 thing Cora asked for; she was concerned that Santa brought her one last year, but didn't bring Quinny one, and Quinny needed her very own stroller.

Quinny agreed and was SO happy.

This was a big year for dress-up clothes.

And, Santa brought the girls a VERY popular high chair. 

There was too much fun, and too much wrapping paper, and too many hugs to get many pics. A great morning - I know that we only have a limited number of years of magical Christmas mornings. 

Here might be the best place to say this. 

I don't know what we did, or how we did it, but I was so pleased this year that Cora was WAY more excited about the Little Baby Jesus than she was Santa. I'm not even sure she cared much about Santa until the doll house arrived, but we had a lot of questions about Jesus, Jesus's mommy, etc. Maybe it's the Little People nativity that always comes out at Christmas, or the Little People nativity calendar that Grandma M. mailed her, or the pics from Grandma M and Mary Rutledge with great pics of the baby Jesus and the manger... but we were constantly fielding serious Jesus convos. We still are. We're still singing "The LIttle Lord Jesus" song (on repeat) every night before bed (as Cora says, It's still a little bit Christmas), and she announced the other day that she wanted to ride on a horse with Mary just like the Little Lord Jesus (we think she saw a statue when we were having dinner at a friend's house). 

I'm not bragging - I don't feel like we tried too hard to make her this pious. Currently the child is Jesus obsessed.