Christmas

Christmas this year was a lot of fun! Our best gift this year was having Zooey here. :) I was a little worried about how she was going to do on Christmas, because on Christmas Eve day/night, she was pretty fussy and even woke in the night, because she still had her cold. :( Poor baby! But...I held onto the hope that since the worst of my cold was gone in about 3 days, maybe hers would be, too, and it was. Praise God!

Zooey and I started our day like usual, feed, play and chat together then she was down for her nap. Ryan had to work, so I got some breakfast ready for him, and we watched Elf together until it was time for Zooey to wake up. She obviously had no clue what was going on, but I was SO excited! We put all her presents out on the floor for her and put her on her Boppy, so we could all enjoy the excitement together.

Moto obviously thought all the presents were for him...no such luck, Moto.

While I was getting everything together, Ryan was watching TV, and Zooey decided the show was pretty interesting, too.

That is, until the fun began:

She doesn't look too sure about this, does she? Well, once we began opening everything and showing her all the fun stuff she got, she got a little more excited.

After we did this stuff, we went to Sarah & Rey's house for a wonderful Christmas dinner and had a lot of fun with the family. Zooey wasn't up much, but she's such a good girl - she napped really well in the pack n' play at their house. Everyone was so generous to her, and we got some really awesome stuff for her! Everyone was pretty tuckered out at the end of the day, so we headed home and had a nice night's sleep.

Of course, even better than having sweet little Zooey here is the knowledge that we were celebrating our Lord Jesus' birth. Since I've started going to BSF, I've found myself reflecting on the words of the old hymns rather than, ahem, kind of just singing them to get through them. I've found the hymns are so rich with words of praise for our Lord, and since Christmas songs are hymns, I really focused on the words in the Christmas Eve service at church this year and was blessed by that. In the words of one blogger, "(Zooey) may've changed our lives, but Jesus changed the world." Perfectly said. May God bless you and keep you in 2010.