Christmas Day!

Ben 10!
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Oh, this was an exciting morning. All Jake had been asking for was "Ben 10" toys. So, he was pretty excited when he opened "Rath". Jake is REALLY into toys and he certainly wasn't disappointed on Christmas morning.

The top item on Megan's list was the "Olivia House". She had seen it on a commercial and figured she could work it into her Polly Pocket set-up. I'll have to do a separate post on Polly Pocket. Anyway, here's her big surprise on Christmas morning:



Santa also brought her "Just Dance 2" for Wii. I'd like to mention that I'm the current undefeated champion. But I digress......

The kids played with their toys for the morning and then I cooked up a "fancy" spaghetti and meatball dinner and brought it to Grandma Helen's house, where my dad, Ruth, Brian, Damien and Ada also joined us. The cousins had a great time playing together. They all ate dinner (Christmas Pizza for the kids & Brian :-), had dessert and then we got to open a few more presents. Here's a Great-Grandma photo (I took about 5 of these, but couldn't get all 4 kids looking my way):



And, here's the Grandpa photo:



After they opened presents, Jake went into the bedroom, got his coat, put it on, came out to where the rest of us were sitting and said good-bye to everyone. Subtle, huh? That kid was ready to get home and play with his new toys.