Sometimes it is necessary to break with tradition. Growing up we were never allowed to open any presents on Christmas Eve. We always had to wait until Christmas morning. I remember waking up every couple of hours and looking at the clock anticipating the big opening. We could wake mom and dad up around 6:30...I think. It has been so long ago now. What I do remember is that mom never had all the presents out. So it was torture waiting the extra time it took for her and dad to set everything up. It seemed like at least an extra half a hour to hour. Probably it was closer to ten minutes give or take. Anyway, this year Jonathan, Haven and I would be leaving at 3:30 in the morning to travel to St. Louis for our flight out to Florida. That left Christmas Eve to celebrate our Christmas. Open presents on Christmas Eve, YIKES! It actually worked out really well. It felt more like Christmas Day than Christmas Day did since we were traveling that day.
That day for some reason Haven, who always takes off her hat as soon as she gets in the car, finds a "new" hat and wants to wear it pretty much all day long. She even finds her doll's hat and has me put the dolls hat on so they match.
Jonathan and I thought that we would let Haven open one present at a time and then let her play with it a while and then when she was finished, pull out another present. We of course did not know any better. Haven is now to the age that she just LOVES opening presents. She pretty much went from one to another. She acknowledged the toy played a couple of seconds and then went for another present to open. She has played with her gifts a lot after all the gifts were open.
Haven loves to read, so she got a few books. These pictures are when we were opening one at a time. She actually sat through a couple of the short stories.
Haven loves to sing into microphones. So we found one that looked like a "real" microphone. It plays music and records short clips of your voice. She really enjoys it.
Haven opened up her presents from Jonathan's side of the family while his parents were web chatting with us. What a neat way to share Christmas when we are miles apart. She thought that they should be able to talk into her microphone. She tried Grandma and grandma sang, but we found out that Grandpa doesn't sing or rap :o) Then she put the microphone up to her face on the screen.
It turned out to be a wonderful Christmas Eve Christmas, but I won't break tradition unless it is necessary!
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