Ho Ho Ho............. is coming to town

Well, the holiday tradition officially begun on Margaret's side of the family, but I guess one would think so - as big as her family is.

Saturday Dec. 22, we went to Peter's Aunt and Uncle's house for Christmas Dinner. Peter didn't take a long enough nap, so he was not a happy camper. But after awhile, he finally joined in and played with his cousins.

Sunday Dec. 23rd, we went to Peter's Aunt and Uncle's house for Christmas Dinner. Santa appeared and handed out gifts. Peter was happy to see Santa to tell him what he wanted for Christmas, and it's the same things...........Batman!, Superman, and Jet plane, and Anna. Peter wants a toy Jet plane, but he also knows he has to take the jet plane to pick up Anna. Peter had fun playing with his cousins.

Monday Dec. 23rd, Mommy and Daddy had Margaret's family over for Christmas Eve Dinner, and gifts. Peter didn't take a nap today, because we had visitors throughout the day and Peter "didn't want to miss anything". But Peter managed to catch his "2nd wind" and had fun playing with his cousins. This year we continued with the Guatemala Tradition and lit sparklers before opening gifts. In Guatemala at midnight, they light fire works, before opening the gifts. Since fire works are illegal in New York, we decided to just use sparklers instead. Everyone had fun outside lighting the sparklers. The we went inside to open gifts and had ice cream sundaes and root beer floats for dessert. Once everyone left, Peter fell fast to sleep with his Ho Ho pajamas on.

Peter enjoying his Ice Cream!

Everyone outside, lighting sparklers.

Peter being an Elf with his Ho Ho pajamas on.

Another Tradition that Margaret, Pam, and Julie started was two years ago during our first adoption. On Christmas Eve at 6pm (eastern time) we had a toast to make a toast for our children - those who we adopted and those of us who are in "the process" of adopting, and our other children - that complete our families. This year Margaret invited her friends (Martina, Barbara, Pam, Vicki, Laurie, Melissa, Marcie, & Emma) who are also adopting with Edwin this year. This is a tradition that we will continue to each year. Feliz Navidad!