blankets and game systems and sat in their beanbag chairs up in the new playroom overlooking the Christmas tree down in the living room. Brian told them that those chairs are only comfy for sitting in not really sleeping in but the kids were determined to stakeout Santa. By about 11PM Trent came down the hallway and announced that we were right and he was going to sleep in his own bed, but not before setting his alarm clock for 5:30AM! Madisen was kind of upset because she didn't want to be alone in the loft by herself so she came in our room to watch "Polar Express" and fi
nally went to bed after that.Boy, did 5:30AM come quick! I'm not sure why Trent set his alarm clock because I heard him running in the hallway back from downstairs to turn it off. He had already gone downstairs to investigate all the presents. I could hear him waking up Madisen and giving her details of his findings. They then dug into their stockings and rushed in to tell us everything they got.
Santa was good to them as always. Trent had asked Santa for an acoustic guitar and/or a turtle (YES, a LIVE turtle). I did ask him if he would be upset if Santa didn't bring the turtle (Mommy wasn't too keen on the idea!) and he said as long as Santa brought him one of his wishes he would be happy. Madisen had asked Santa for the Polar Express DVD and arts and crafts stuff. She realized after seeing Santa she should have asked for a DS, like her brother's. Luckily Santa heard her wishes and she got a DS of her very own, and a PINK one no less!
The kids loved being able to play their DS' together now and patiently waited for everyone to show up at the house so they could open their other presents.
Here's Trent with one of his gifts from Grandma B, a ESPN baseball game. THANKS Grandma B I'm having lots of fun playing it!I will post more pictures of Christmas.
