Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Eve, 2010 - Lily hitches a ride on Auntie Jill.

Which was awesome for everybody...until Lily decided she wasn't finished yet. It took a team of us to manually extract her.

Christmas morning, 2010 - Grampa Jim gets in some morning exercise. Lily helps.

Apparently we should have gotten a bigger tree :) The other option, of course, is fewer presents. Nah...we'll go for the bigger tree next year.

Dressed? Check! Eeyore? Check! Lily's ready for the gift opening to begin.

First she crawls into the middle of the pile.....

...surveys the landscape for awhile....

...goofs around with Santa for a bit (we don't think she was fooled by the hat, daddy)...

...and then gets a lesson from Auntie Jill on how to rip wrapping paper off of presents.

She becomes quite adept at this, and makes her way around the room helping other people open their presents too.

She decides to go exploring again, and finds a few with her name on them, and goes in for a closer look...

...she decides to open the biggest one first. That'll fly this year, Lily, but next year you have do open them in the order in which *Santa* gives them to you!

You work up quite a thirst opening gifts, so Lily chills out for a bit with some milk. And Eeyore. And Nana. And a bib. Oh, and a hair bow. We'll see how long it lasts on her head.

Lily takes some tea from Nana. Who doesn't love tea and cupcakes from a little pink and purple tea set?

Much of the big waffle brunch ends up in Lily's hair, so a change of clothes is in order. Lily stops halfway through her costume change to check her voicemail on her Elmo cell phone.

Boxing Day, 2010 - Auntie Jill and her little helper :)

Nana and Grampa Jim take Lily swimming in the pool in our building.

Lily demonstrates the double arm pump. She's been watching Jersey Shore.

"Whoa! It's very wavy in here!"

Family dinner!!!! Lily's favourite is the turkey and yam. She even eats a few cranberries from the sauce. So far she hasn't met much food she doesn't like.

Lily tries out her new bike from Nana and Grampa. It may be awhile before she's old enough, big enough and coordinated enough to ride it, but we don't think that's going to stop Lily from trying :)

See??

We are so looking forward to seeing what adventures Lily takes us on in 2011.

Happy New Year, Everyone!!

xoxox

Tannis, Dylan & Lily