Christmas, 2014

It was not a huge family Christmas, but it was a Christmas with a three-year-old. P's parting words to us, Christmas night, were "I love my presents, I love Christmas, I love my family." Top that!

Decorating Christmas cookies

Special attention to the letter P (not shown...
making the gingerbread house)

Traditional Christmas Eve meat/seafood fondue (the cheese
fondue course was lunch, earlier; the chocolate course on
Christmas night)

Helping Grandma unwrap a Christmas eve present

Christmas morning...P examines the chemistry
set from Poppy (paternal grandpa), as Mama
looks on, demonstrating use of safety glasses;
what does a chemistry set for three-year-olds do,
you ask...have you ever seen raisins rise and
fall in a solution of carbonated water?

With her first American Girl doll (christened
Sarah) and matching Snow White night-gowns

Daddy with specially-selected vintage tie

A Frozen night-gown

Mama looks on to the unwrapping of a culinary present

Grandpa unwraps something (probably a gadget
for the camper)

As the morning winds down, with Sarah, in
matching night-gowns