Christmas Eve

Liesl offered to watch the kids at Granny’s house today, so that Kyle and I could finish up the Christmas shopping without them. So we took the kids and dropped them off at Granny’s to spend the day with Liesl & Granny. We decided to keep Seth with us though, since he can’t tell anyone what we were getting.

The kids had lots of fun during the day. Liesl even helped them make some cookies.

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We went shopping and I was really slow, this being the first time I’ve been away from the house since Seth was born. And of course because I was slow and we didn’t have much shopping done to begin with, we were shopping most of the day.

We got home rather late. Later than I had wanted to be out on Christmas eve. Kyle took the christmas pjs downstairs so I could wrap them while he fed the kids. After dinner we let Adam pass out the presents and let the kids open them.

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After the kids changed into their new pjs, we let them pick out stockings and sent them to bed. 🙂

Seth Meets Some Extended Family

Liesl is in town and wanted to come over, so Granny and Laurel’s family came over as well. Kyle had taken all of the kids to the library so I was home alone with Seth when they arrived. So they got to spend some time just meeting Seth before the rest of the family came back. As always Liesl takes lots of pictures when she comes over. 🙂

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Daniel and Lars got to hold him, but they didn’t look too sure of themselves.

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Laurel enjoyed trying to pump gas bubbles out of him.

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When it was Roine’s turn he put Seth to sleep, because that is Roine’s super power…he puts babies to sleep.

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Then Kyle and the kids came back home.

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Laurel offered to give Lydia a haircut to fix her self cut.

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Liesl got pictures of all of the kids with the Christmas tree as a background:

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Jeremy naturally had to make a funny face for the camera.

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It was a lot of excitement for Seth, but when you’ve been born into a large family, there is always going to be a lot of excitement going on. 🙂