Since we were going to Dallas to celebrate Christmas with
Michael’s family, we had an early Christmas with Grandma, Papa, Nanny, Uncle
Patrick, Great Aunt Ellen, and Aunt Kasey stopped by. It was a quiet celebration but very fun.
Grandma, Papa, and Aunt Ellen arrived early and soaked up a
little time watching Gabby excitedly run around impatiently waiting to open
gifts. They ate gumbo while we waited
for Nanny and Uncle Patrick to arrive. Nanny
and Uncle Patrick drove from Shreveport and directly to our house that day to
have Christmas. As soon as everyone
arrived, we unloaded all of the gifts flooding the living room and then,
without giving Nanny and Uncle Patrick a moment to breathe, began opening
Christmas gifts. We laughed and opened
gifts for about an hour….well Gabby opened gifts that long, we all enjoyed
watching. Gabby racked up getting money
for her college fund, a personalized Doc McIlroy doctor’s lab coat, doc
McStuffin’s toys, a really cool ball you throw and changes colors, a magnetic
puzzle board where you try to copy designs, a bike, a new doll, a stuffed
unicorn, games, and the list goes on and on.
Gabby gave everyone a calendar with her hand print art made throughout
the year. Michael wired in an auxiliary
plug in my car, and I gave him a Texans phone case and cologne.
The best gift of all was watching Nanny’s
expression as she pulled a stuffed fox out of her stocking. I don’t know what Uncle Patrick was thinking
but when Gabby took one look at it and realized it was real, she freaked out,
but eventually warmed up to the strange gift, hid it, and made us all find it
to scare us. It was adorable. Once all of the gifts were unwrapped and
another round of gumbo was eaten, Gabby began taking her toys few by few to her
room by putting them in the basket of her bicycle and brought them all to her
room. Then we were all forbidden to
enter her room while she did surgery on her toys. It was a relaxing and very fun Christmas.
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