Christmas Thankyous

I had this grand vision of posting a picture with the girls and a favorite present from the extended family every day so you could see how much they are all enjoying your presents, but since I'm having a hard time even getting out of bed in the morning (and not returning as soon as possible) and also since I am still having a hard time transferring the pictures from our digital camera to the blog, here are some verbal thankyous to tide you over until I get more ambitious and organized. (And these are just the ones I can think of right now, so if I forget anyone, the girls still loved your presents, just chalk it up to the fact that I'm also half brain-dead when I'm pregnant.)

First of all, Kaylynn, the girls absolutely loved the capes. Nothing happens nowadays without a Super (insert the name) to accompany the running girl in a cape. It's almost like their long lost Linus blankets. For a while they wanted to take them everywhere we went. Good work!!

Second the girls all loved the beautiful dresses that Grandpa and Grandma sent. They love fancy schmancy anything and are way excited to wear them to Missy's wedding.

Emma also especially liked the workbooks that Grandma and Grandpa sent with the pencils. She LOVES them. She keeps them in her bed at night to make sure that she gets her work time in and she is quickly getting better at writing. On Christmas morning, after all the presents were opened and we were waiting for breakfast, the first thing Emma did was to sit down at their table and begin copying down the alphabet in one of the book's activities.

Ruth liked everyone else's presents and her own. She especially enjoyed Lily's pull puzzle animal thing that Grandma and Grandpa sent. She takes apart and puts it back together at least once each day and loves to pull it. She knows it is Lily's but tries to avoid letting Lily know she is playing with it.

Kate loves the Webkins charms and both wears the necklace proudly and loves to play the computer game. Missy has her all hooked up and in the know about using the game.

The girls also really loved the clothes that Amy sent. Everything fit well and they love them (although Mary's undying favorite is the tank tops (underclothes) that Amy sent sometime last year). She would wear them night and day and does although we've insisted that she wear something over them, Mary is always one to push the envelope, if we let her just wear them, soon she would be wearing no clothes at all.

I loved the giftcard I received from Missy and the cute notecards from Amy--Hand-made, good work Amy!!

All the girls loved the necklaces from Adam. They wear them to church and love to look at them
as they hang out of reach to prevent them from being destroyed.

Mary loves her art sets from Grandma and Grandpa. She worked on one of the pictures for a week and still has all the colored pencils in the set stashed so she doesn't lose them so she can work on them later. She's had lots of fun.

Lily loves everything and is just glad when her sisters let her play with anything. Usually they are hiding things from her or running off to hide her toys in their room so they can play with them. Ah, the life of a youngest sister.

Anyway, thanks for everything. The girls had a great Christmas!!