December 25th: Christmas Morning and The Seguins

Christmas Day was busy, but pleasant. Thankfully, the kids slept in until about 8:30 am (!). When they got up, we showed them their presents from Santa, and Daddy helped them open their presents from us, too. Andrea, once again, was simply excited because there were more "PRESENTS!" Kevin was excited because Andrea was excited! :)) One item of note: although Andrea loves presents, she's lazy about them. She had to have "Mama/Dada help it?" which usually meant we unwrapped her gifts for her!

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At around 10 am, we packed up the kids and headed over to Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Tony's for their traditional Christmas morning brunch. It's a nice little gathering, because the Hages (Uncle Tony's family) are always there as well. And who doesn't love a good-old-fashioned huge Christmas morning breakfast? :))

Adam, Izzy, and Andrea (the toddler trio) had their own little table!

Christmas cake, Kevin? No? We don't blame you! :))

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In the afternoon, we went to Aunt Claire's house, where most of the Seguins (my mom's family) congregated for the day. (Yes, this is the same Aunt Claire who was at the Markets' on Christmas Eve . . . oh, you all know about me and Rod's weird family connections by now!).

Andrea had an incredible amount of fun there, because there were lots of kids within a few years of age to play with. The finished basement also had a wonderful open lay-out conducive to running and screaming children! :)) I didn't even try to keep tabs on her. Andrea did her best to keep up with the "big kids" (5 to 8- year-olds) until we had to put a stop to it, because she was trying to jump over the couch with them!

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Nice hat, Uncle Chuck! Merry Christmas!

Kevin with Aunt Rosie--my godmother, and baby-lover extraordinaire!