Christmas

My sister and her kids are spending the whole week of Christmas and New Year with us! I am so excited to see the kids and my sister for the entire week!! It was so hard to find time to decorate the house and put up the lights this year. We didn't finish putting up the lights until mid-December and the tree up a week before Christmas. Hey, I am just proud we got it done. I even somehow managed to find ornaments for the kids

We decide to let the kids open their presents on Christmas Eve. We orginally plan to let them open it Christmas morning but my parents wanted to be there so we changed it to Christmas Eve. The kids had a blast opening all their presents. Ky-An wasn't interested in tearing the presents open but was so excited when he received the Little Einsteins rocketship we got him.

Christmas morning Santa Claus came by for a visit but my nieces was scare of him. Ky-An was the only one who would even get close to Santa Claus. We opened stocking stuffers and then got ready to go to my aunt's for a lunch. This is the lunch we got them matching outfits for. My other aunt wanted a family picture so we coordinate all our outfits for the picture. Ky-An had a blast playing with all his cousins at my aunt's house. Poor Ai-Vy was so tired but can't sleep because the kids are being so noisy. She would fall asleep in my arms but as soon as I put her down then she wakes up. I finally just held her so she can get some sleep. She was asleep through the family picture even though it was horrendously noisy. She's a very good little girl.

Ky-An is so in love with my older niece when she was here. Every morning as soon as he wakes up, he'll point upstairs and ask for Big Sister Tam. As soon as he hears her voice when she woke up, he gets so excited. He'll start running in place and giggle. If we are going somewhere and he doesn't see her in the car, he'll whine for her until he sees her.

He's still a good sharer. We had no problem with him when his cousins are here visiting for a week. There was some pulling and pushing with his youngest cousin when he's tired and cranky but nothing serious. Whenever they are playing with something he wants to play with, he just waits patiently at the side until they are done or walk away then swoop over and play with it. This morning his youngest cousin was lying on his chair so he just stood there waiting for her to get up and he happily climb on to reclaim it. He wanted the horse that belong to my older niece but Hieu told her it's his cousin so he handed it to her, even if he's not happy. :)