Holiday Pictures

Here are some more pictures from our visit to see Santa, for some reason I couldn't upload them on Monday. These are actually in the correct order. Even though we traumatized Harper on Santa's lap, she cheered right up when she saw the massive gifts. She must have retained some memory of opening her birthday presents because she was suitably excited with her holiday packages.



































It's next to impossible to know which pictures and stories to include from our Christmas travels and celebrations. We are finally just about recovered and back on track after a whirl wind of three cities, 71 relatives, over 20 hours of car travel, and many many pounds of Christmas cookies and wrapping paper.

Christmas Eve, at my grandmother's house, we arrived early and put Harper down for a nap when there were about ten people there. When she woke up, there were 31 people there. It took her about an hour to get over the shock (and by "get over the shock" I mean stop screaming, and by "about an hour" I mean nearly 60 minutes of baby shrieking at its loudest). Later, after she'd opened gifts, helped everyone else open gifts, and been fed several cookies and some birthday cake by her grandpa, she entered a kind of Christmas mania. She was laughing hysterically as my cousins piled wrapping paper on her.

















I also think a reindeer costume might be in order for next year.

















More photos to come!