Wonderful Christmastime

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas. We did -- this was the first year that Zosia really got the idea of Christmas, and the last few weeks were full of anticipation and "is it Christmas yet" and "it's so hard to wait! I'm so impatient." When it finally was Christmas, I think she was so relieved it was finally here that she forgot to be moody and as a result spent the entire day (except for the briefest of meltdowns at teeth-brushing time) in a remarkably good mood.

As befits the first granddaughter of eight grandparents, she got a ton of stuff, as did her sister. Whatever your feelings about rampant consumerism (I admit to being both fascinated and a little squicked-out by it) there is no denying how great it is to see one's kid in a state of frantic excitement, running from room to room and toy to toy, eagerly monopolizing her sister's presents as well as her own (big hits: Viewmaster, tiny pony with comb-able hair, bongo drums), all the while with a huge smile on her face. It did a papa proud.

We manged to get the girls to sit together in their matching Christmas dresses just long enough to snap a couple of pictures. Here's one of them:

In their Christmas dresses
Originally uploaded by Ruzich/Johnson

We finished our day with dinner out at a Chinese restaurant -- we thought about a movie but didn't want to press our luck -- and evening fell with Daryl wearing her moisturizing gloves & booties and paging through the Complete Sandman collection while I rocked my way through Guitar Hero III for the Wii. We collapsed into bed exhausted but fully suffused with the Christmas spirit, ready to move on to New Year's, 2008, and everything it has in store for our little family.