Karly got up about 7:30, bouncing around and super-excited. She and Marco and I came downstairs and got the monkey bread in the oven and made the monkey munch (Karly's requested food). She found Zippie the Elf, who was able to stay one extra day since Karly was very distraught about his pending departure.
Thankfully, when he left the next day, all the Christmas loot seemed to be sufficient to distract her from her sadness about missing him. I let her open a couple of stocking presents. Luckily one that she opened was a little magic kit and that amused her for a bit. We finally let her wake the soundly-sleeping-Nolan up at 9 a.m.
They went through the stockings and got lots of fun things like, gloves, socks, toothbrush, toothpaste and band-aids.
Nolan's tape supply
Smencils!
After stockings we took a break to eat our breakfast - bacon, eggs, and monkey bread, and then it was back to the presents.
Marco got a tool organizer/tote thingy.
Karly picked out a shirt for me.
The kids were very sweet and excited to give each other the presents they had picked out. They both did a great job choosing something that the other really loved.
Karly got a nerf "zombie gun" for Nolan.
Nolan picked this soft kitty travel pillow for Karly.
Nolan is really into the gift wrapping and giving. There were quite a few gifts under the tree of random things, pack of gum, book, picture he made, that he had wrapped up for people, mostly for Karly.
Here is Karly opening a roll of wrapping paper that he wrapped.
The mountain of stuff was kind of getting out of hand, but luckily we were almost done.
For the very last present, Santa came through with the one thing Karly had on her wish list - Wii and Super Mario game.
She was a little excited.
