Christmas

Christmas Sunday... got the kids in their Christmas outfits. I wanted Abigail to wear red but she wanted to wear a dress that was long enough to drag down the stairs like a princess...so we settled for black and white.

Caleb was on his night float schedule for Christmas, so Christmas Eve was Caleb's fifth of five nights in a row. When daddy woke up on Christmas eve we had our regular Christmas eve dinner, Luke 2 reading and dress up (Abigail was Mary, and Joshua was Joseph, Caleb and I filled in for all the extras :)), we read "Twas the night Before Christmas", opened one present and put the kids to bed. Caleb went to work and I scurried around getting ready for the morning.

 Christmas morning was great. Caleb has worked an overnight shift on Christmas eve all three years of residency. It is not ideal but way better than working Christmas morning.  So he got home from work around 7 am and we were all still asleep! Joshua never sleeps past seven. So we actually had to wake the kids so we could start opening presents and get daddy to bed. 

Abigail got a kitchen for Christmas, and not much else. She has played with it constantly since. She loves making everyone food, and setting up tea parties.

Joshua got a Playmobil jet airplane, which he has not put down since Christmas. He loves it and quickly started accessorizing it with all his old toys.

 After presents and breakfast, Caleb went to sleep for a few hours. Then he woke up and we drove up to Santa Barbara to have Christmas dinner with my family. It was very fun and worth the trip. Poor Caleb was so exhausted, but driven by the Christmas spirit and excitement to participate. We stayed at my parents for a few days while Caleb caught up on a lot of much needed sleep. We got home Friday night had one day at home to unwind, and clean up Christmas before Caleb started his next five overnight shifts. Then I got a bad cold, then the stomach flu, and poof New Years was done without a thought. So it is 2013 and we are looking forward to our next adventure... our first real job and a new town.