Mia's First Christmas!

Mia was ready and excited on Christmas morning!

Mia's gift from Santa! I've been wanting to get Mia a musical table for some time, and was thrilled when I got it for $19 at Target(regularly $45). Gotta love the savings!!

 

She loves it! It's a perfect height so she can pull herself up on it! It says the ABC's and numbers and teaches other things. It can even do it all in Spanish, too!

Christmas morning with the Cusacks at Yaya & Papa's house!

Mia gets her very own stocking for Yaya & Papa's house!

Uncle Cole put a lottery ticket in her stocking. I was hoping she'd win some money for college, but unfortunately, she didn't!

The annual "kid & stocking" picture!

Mia made a frame for both of her uncles.

Opening her first gift.

Sometimes I get so caught up in taking pictures of Mia, that I  forget to take pictures of the rest of our family!

New dress shirt to sport at a Titan home game!

Mia got a cute "flower power" outfit from Yaya & Papa!

Great-Grandma opening her framed picture of the 4 generations from Mia!

Mia made a photo book for Yaya & Papa(and Daddy and Sittee). They turned out awesome and they all loved them!

"Santa Mia" helping Auntie pass out the presents!

Auntie Kelly got Mia these boots and hat and a cute dress to go with them for when she gets a little older.

Opening one of her 6 ornaments. Maco and I get each other an ornament each year, so we added Mia to the tradition this year and got her three. Yaya gets ornaments for all of us each year, and Mia got two. Sittee got Mia an ornament also, but it's lost in her house right now. :) Including the 2 or 3 ornaments Mia got last year, she now has a great start to her ornament collection!

We also got two special ornaments for Josiah. Yaya & Papa gave us one that says "Angel".  We also were sent one from the Trisomy 18 foundation that says "In Loving Memory of Josiah Anthony". They are very sweet!

Uncle Cole and Quinn have very......let's say....."original" ways of wrapping presents! Usually, they'll have Katie or Kelly wrap their presents for them on the morning on Christmas. But not this year!

This year, Quinn asked for the gift bag after a present was opened  and then ran to the other room, put his gift in it and brought it back out to be opened. :) Cole on the other hand actually wrapped his gifts ahead of time(Amazing!), but he put a special touch on the wrapping by using duct tape. Above, you can see the beautiful card that he duct taped to the front of the box. Inside the box, Kelly had to unravel a lot of tissue paper, paper towels, and duct tape to unveil her gift card. Wonder what they'll come up with next year!

After breakfast and gifts at Yaya & Papa's house, we headed over to Sittee's for brunch and gifts. Mia has a musical table to play with at Sittee's, too.

I brought Mia's cute Christmas outfit that Yaya & Papa gave her, but I left it at their house. So, she got to wear her pajamas all day!

Great-Aunt Alice and Mia

Cousins Gabby & Sophia playing with Mia.

Mia's first truck from Great-Auntie Eileen and Cousin Michaela!

They even created wrapping paper for the gifts. Thank you for thinking of Mia, Eileen & Michaela!

 

Sittee had Nita make a wonderful fleece blanket and hat for Mia!

Cousin Susan got this cute dress and tights for Mia to wear this coming year!

Sittee loved her book that Mia made her!

Mia's stocking at Sittee's house!

Mia's first action figure!

 

Sittee got Mia her first basketball hoop! We also got her a mini Union basketball.  We're starting early!

Baby's First Christmas ornament!

I found this ornament that I'd purchased at last year's day after Christmas sale. It's from this S'mores collection and we have a few of the ornaments. I was surprised that I bought it because it's a princess ballerina, and you may or may not know that I'm not really into the whole princess thing. I guess one princess thing isn't going to hurt!

Maco and I finally get to open our gifts to each other at about 10pm Christmas night. This seems to be the usual.

Mia loved playing with Daddy and her b-ball hoop the day after Christmas!

She loves her musical table, too. Although, she wants to eat it for some reason!

We feel very blessed to have been able to spend Christmas with our family, and hope you had a wonderful day with yours! We pray that God will bless you this coming year!

Happy New Year from the Hamiltons!!