I slept horrible Christmas Eve. I don't know if was excitement for the next day or what, but I probably got a total of 4 hours of sleep.
I got up at 6 am to start making this breakfast casserole for B. It took a little time to prepare since I'm slow at prepping and another 30 minutes or so to bake. I'm such a good wife, ha!
Just before 7 am I heard Vivian doing her morning jibber jabber on the monitor. I got B up so we could get her out of the crib together.
She loves handing be all her babies before getting out of her crib. So stinking cute!!
We wished her a Merry Christmas and told her that Santa came that night and left her lots of gifts.
B and I got into the living room before Vivian to capture her face with the camcorder and camera. She knew something was up! Her little face lite up!
Two books were left unwrapped next to her stocking. She went straight for the books. Obviously.
Then she went for the stocking and pulled out each item one at a time and placed each one on her table. This process took a little time since Santa had that stocking stuffed.
^^bath bubbles^^
^^piggy paint ^^
After getting everything out of her stocking, she moved it from the table to her highchair. Strange little booger.
^^ car seat ^^
Then she wanted to read us her book.
Then it was time to open some presents.
^^ Her favorite out of the bunch, Elmo who actually hugs ^^ She was a happy camper when she saw him. Loved hugging him and kissing him.
^^Smocks and finger paint paper and tray^^
^^Washable markers, crayons and floor pad^^
Even Santa came to see Mr. Brody.
After opening Vivian's gifts, I made my Mom's little bread. Pure sugar, but so incredibly good. Still love it to this day and so did Vivian. She kept going "mmmm" after each bite :) This will be part of our Christmas morning tradition.
Little Bread recipe
For your EGG MIXTURE (whisk 4 eggs...1 tbs of cinnamon...1 tsp milk in a shallow bowl...stir before each bread dip). Make sure to use WHITE BREAD, not whole wheat bread.
For your POWDERED SUGAR MIXTURE ( 1 cup powdered sugar...2 tbs cinnamon...mix well)
FRYING BREAD (turn oven eye on low-medium heat...add 1 and 1/2 tbs of butter to each 2 slices of bread...make sure the bread is wet enough so the sugar mixture will stick...may have to rub more butter on them)
After your bread is done frying, coat bread with the powdered sugar mixture until well coated. Cut the bread into four squares, hence why they are called little bread. I usually add a little more powdered sugar mixture after cutting when on my plate for a little extra sugar.
This recipe makes about 6 slices of bread.
After breakfast, B and I opened our gifts. I got B a
Kindle Fire HDX 7 which was upgraded to the 64 GB, a cover case and a couple of boxer shorts.
He also got a gift card and shirt from his parents.
He got me lots of goodies. A Keurig, a carousel holder, muffin and brownie pan from Anthropologie and a candle from Anthropologie.
My Mom got us a year membership to the aquarium and a couple of pair of leggings from J.Crew. B's Mom got me the most comfortable pair of maternity pj's from A Pea In A Pod.
We had a FANTASTIC Christmas!!
^^18.5 weeks pregnant^^
After opening our gifts, Vivian was back to playing with her toys and trying on a couple of things.
And painted our piggies :)
Next Christmas will be even more special having Vivian and our little boy or girl. The Good Lord has truly blessed my little family!!!
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