Merry Christmas!

Our plan came together perfectly for Christmas morning and today was everything we'd hope it would be for Miss Eloise.  With my mom's and Mike's help, we put Eloise to bed last night and transformed this house into an entirely new playland for the Monkey.  It started with putting away all of her existing toys.  Then Mike put together her VERY cool train table, then a fire truck, then we set up her new table and chairs complete with puzzles and an oversized Dora. Last, we brought down all of the presents and ta-da.....Santa visited 2517 Bay Street and we were ready to go!

Eloise is still a bit too young to understand Santa although she quickly picked on saying "ho ho ho" when we said his name.  (must have been the 3 failed attempts to see the big guy:) But either way, I knew if we completely changed her play area, she'd flip out with excitement. And that's exactly what we all experienced early this morning. My mom and her new dog Lady spent the night and together with Mike and me and Sweet Pea, we all shared in a wonderful 2nd Christmas with Eloise.  Here are a bunch of pics.

After Santa arrived!

Some of Santa's elves.

And....this morning! She ran to the train table (and spent most of the day there) so we know it was/is a BIG hit.

Also, Eloise has a new BFF.


They even kiss and hug:)


Last year I insisted on having a "Monkey and me" pic in front of the tree. So I thought we'd keep the tradition going. Here's how we started out...


Give her Mimi and although not happy, she was a little better. Lol! Merry Christmas, everyone!!