Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Caitlin's First Christmas

Caitlin's first Christmas was a lot of fun. We went down south to visit our families. First on the agenda was to take Caitlin and my nephew William to the Broward Mall to see Santa. We arrived at the mall relatively early in the morning on Saturday and there was already a line. Luckily it was not a long wait and the kids were well-behaved. (In a related observation, it is remarkable how many kids are afraid of Santa. Who knew?) Once we arrived at the front of the line, we were able to get pictures of both William and Caitlin with Santa.


Sunday was Caitlin's baptism. She was baptized at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in North Miami. The service was very intimate and quite wonderful. After the service the family gathered at my Mom's house. Caitlin and William had some more time to get together and we all enjoyed each others' company for a great afternoon.


Monday was Christmas Eve and time for a get-together at my Sister's place with my side of the family. This was exciting not only for the fact that it was more family time, but because Caitlin got to open her first Christmas present. It was a present from my sister. It was four outfits and an elephant toy which can clip on her baby seat. CaitlinCaitlin's present from Aunt Carla was still a little bit too young to open presents by herself but she enjoyed the wrapping paper as she does all things crinkly.

Christmas day was spent with Kathy's family. Caitlin received many more presents and had a very good time with her Grammy and Papa. Her Great-Aunt Bee visited also.

Unfortunately we had to head back north the day after Christmas but the short time we had was a lot of fun. We had lots of quality time with our family and plenty of time enjoying Caitlin.

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