Merry Christmas!

Christmas was wild and a lot of fun. Since we adopted Brynn 6 days after her birthday, she has never had her own birthday party to open presents at but has had two brothers have birthdays since she came home and has gone to several birthday parties and seen the hoopla. It was fun to see her tear into her own packages for the first time, but before she started ripping, she would do a little dance singing "mine, mine, mine" and shaking the present she was handed. She especially loves her new shopping cart, her brother's new work bench, and her new doll (if you ask her its name she will say "baby" - if you ask if her name is "Susie" or "Mei Mei" or "fill in a girl's name" she giggles and says "No" like that is the craziest idea she has ever heard).

Here are a few pictures from some Xmas activities: the first one is posing for the family Xmas card, the next is decorating the tree, posing with the blue-bearded Santa, with her brothers on Christmas Eve, eating at Grandma's and Grandpa's on Christmas Eve, and in the above post, posing with her brothers on Christmas Day (it should be easy to figure out where the TV is; I forgot to turn off the cartoons before I took the picture) and all of us at the lights festival at the Botanical Gardens (a bit fuzzy but a rare photo of us all).