Family Gift-Giving

This evening, the four of us exchanged Christmas gifts. Here's Evelyn with the newest Thomas the Tank Engine DVD movie.
Uncle Eric gave Evelyn a 2011 Thomas calendar. Yep, Evelyn still loves Thomas!

For the past month, Julia has been squeezing into her old, pink Crocs. She has been asking for purple ones for quite awhile, and tonight her wish was granted. She was so excited to have purple Crocs like Evelyn!

All throughout the evening, the girls opened small boxes that contained little dolls, dollhouse accessories and a wooden car for the dolls to drive. As if on cue, after all the presents had been opened, Evelyn said, "I just wish we had a dollhouse for all of this." Well . . .

. . . what should Troy bring up from the basement but a dollhouse! The girls went right to work, filling the rooms with furniture and pretending the dolls were taking a bath, feeding the dog, parking the car in the garage, and so on. A big THANK YOU to both sides of our family for contributing to this gift - the girls love it!