simply having a wonderful Christmas time

I knew Natasha would have a lot of fun on Christmas morning, but I didn’t realize how much fun I would have watching her. At first however, she didn’t even notice the large, odd-shaped bulk covered in wrapping paper across the room. She opened a small package that contained plastic food that Velcros together so that it can be “cut” apart. She was so excited with it that she ignored everything else for about 10 minutes.

Eventually, we were able to get her to open other gifts (plastic spoons, forks, knives, cups, plates, utensils and more fake food). Then she finally did notice the large, odd-shaped bulk covered in wrapping paper. It was a toy kitchen (apparently Santa went with a theme this year). It was out of the box and already assembled (Santa must have been at work late into the night at our house). It even had all of the batteries installed (Santa’s helpers should be thanked for having batteries handy...I think Santa forgot to bring enough).

Our families came over for brunch and not only did she open her gifts, but she passed out all of the gifts to everyone else. Later at GG’s, Natasha got some more toys. She was also enjoying helping everyone else open their gifts. She did this again at Nanny’s house. She opened every one of Pop’s gifts for him.

It was pretty magical watching her have so much fun giving. It was also fun watcher her opening stuff. She wasn’t greedy about it, but unlike her birthday, she opened her presents and seemed to understand that they were presents.