Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! 

It has certainly been a different Christmas this year, as it was just the three of us at home for the holidays awaiting our new bundle of joy. Kate has decided to call herself Kate Felix and is denying that her name is Kate Wagner. Thanks to Daddy for getting her to believe her brother's name will be Felix. 

Kate informed me on Christmas Eve morning that she wanted her "own" pie for Christmas and that I needed to make two. She is no doubt a Wagner with how much she loves pie! 

She insisted that all three of us wear our Santa hats while we opened gifts. Looks like it will be a tradition we will need to carry forward. She wasn't into opening gifts much, which we were happy with. Teaching her the true meaning of Christmas paid off for this year at least! We opened one to two gifts every couple of hours and watched her enjoy each gift as we went. First gift up was a trampoline from her Mommy and Daddy. 

 She was quite the helper putting it together. Daddy threw out a bad word while putting it together, and Kate quickly repeated it. We just laughed and had to ignore it, so she wouldn't continue to repeat it. Let's just hope she doesn't go to preschool tomorrow repeating it!

She is so thankful for all of the wonderful gifts everyone sent her. Everything from princess castles to dolls to clothes to horse stables to Dora. Thank you so much for all of the generosity! 

A stocking wouldn't be a stocking without M&Ms! "Naughty" her elf must have told Santa that she was a good girl. He brought her lots of goodies in her stocking. 

Kate and her Daddy love to dance and I love to watch them...It will be one of my favorite memories of Kate as a child. 

Kate was very excited to see Baby Jesus in the manger in the stable at church this morning, as she has been waiting for him for weeks. She is so smart that she noticed father wasn't wearing purple anymore for advent. We brought the gifts up to the alter during Mass, and she was so proud to be helping carry the bread. She kept trying to grab one on the way up. Little stinker! 

This is about as close to Santa as one could get this year. Kate was terrified of him!