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This is what you call a Pinterest fail! Or maybe it's just a mom fail! Several friends of mine pointed out that this looks like Santa was hopping across the floor instead of walking. Haha. Good thing I only have a two year old and I have some time to improve my skills! :) An older child would've also noticed that the carrots weren't bitten, but rather cut, but again, I got away with it this year! Fox was a little disappointed though that Santa didn't eat all of the cookies! When Fox FINALLY woke up at 9:20am, he was super excited to open his stocking.  Last year, we totally forgot to get him stocking gifts, and all of his gifts were too big to fit in there, so we improvised with things we already had at home (not that it mattered for a 19 month old), which is probably why we went a little overboard this year and bought way too many stocking gifts, not realizing how tiny his stocking was! After we opened stockings, Katie's family came ove...

I can't believe Christmas is over! I feel like I just decorated and now it's already time to pack everything away until next year. This season flew by faster than usual! We had a wonderful Christmas Weekend! Christmas Eve we spent at Katie's mom's house, just like last year.  She aways has one gift for Fox to open at the beginning of the night, and I'd say this year's present was a huge success! Playing in his "cave"! Notice the photo bomb! Writing a letter to Santa! My favorite moment from that night was when Grandpa showed up. Fox wasn't expecting him there and when he saw him he got the biggest smile on his face and yelled across the room: "Grandpa! Grandpa! Grandpa!" He was so excited, it seriously melted everyone's heart. He just loves his grandpa so much! Another photo bomb! I pulled up the Santa tracker on Rene's laptop and Fox thought it w...