G's 2009 Christmas Presents

Due to the arrival of Baby T, we've had to forgo the traditional open-all-your-gifts-on-Christmas-Day tradition for something more akin to "12 Days of Christmas." On Christmas Day, her paternal grandparents gave her a little drum toy:

Plus a music box playing "Swan Lake":

We got her a gift from the baby, so G could have a baby of her own to hold. G named it "Baby U-bu." Note the doll's Asian hair color! G has been feeding her milk with a spare sippy cup. The funny thing is that G has tried to feed Baby T with that same sippy cup.

A few days later G woke up in her Christmas pajamas to find a new toy kitchen set, complete with stove, oven, and what she calls the "fridge." She loves it, but it took staying up many hours to put together.

She then got a Penguin backpack from Grandma and Grandpa Chan. She always wants me to put it on her; we think she can start carrying her own stuff. :)

Next, G got a Winnie the Pooh lights-and-sound airplane, which she loved, but much to our chagrin and dismay -- it's similar to her other already-very-noisy airplane. However, unlike the other one, this one doesn't make yucky clackety noises and also has a shape sorter, so at least it's educational.

This next one is a wooden clock-themed shape sorter, which G loves and has been playing non-stop today. Not only can she find and put all the shapes down correctly by herself, but she has been stacking the blocks - as high as 9 - something I haven't seen her do with her many other blocks.

Of course, we think that the best Christmas present she got is her little brother. :)

G's First Christmas!

Besides giving us an early gift of self-feeding, G also gave us the gift of sleep Christmas morning. For the past few weeks, G has been waking up at least once during the night... every night. We've commented that it feels like we have a newborn all over again. Anyways, this morning, G let us sleep until around 8, then went back to sleep after nursing (her usual routine for the middle of the night feeding as well as the early morning feeding) and didn't wake up again until 11:30! What a nice treat for us!

Anyways, so G loved ripping open the paper wrapping. We actually knew that from an earlier holiday party where, after all the other bigger kids opened their presents and ran off to play with their new stuff, G was left there in the room mostly by herself, and had a great time playing with some torn wrapping paper, and an opened toy package (made up of a cardboard backing and a molded plastic front that was half torn from the backing). 

Yay! A new 49ers outfit for next season! And with Singletary as their coach, a new era dawns!

Sigh, G insisted that we buy this for Daddy. And this was in addition to an A's book, to go along with the Giant's book G already had.

G's first bass guitar. It's stuffed, not electric, but she can still learn some cool riffs.

G got lots of cool toys and books, but her favorite thing was this paper tag that she pulled off the first present. She didn't let go of it the entire morning!

Here we are at our friends' house for Christmas dinner. Our Santa hat family portrait.

G's self-feeding skills are amazing! Here she is picking up some egg to go with her cracker, how clever! Yum, tastes good together!