An early Christmas Eve

I have to work on Christmas Day, so we decided to celebrate Christmas Eve one day early. I didn't want to miss the excitement on Hadley's face when she came up stairs in the morning to see what Santa brought her. It's so much fun this year because we've been talking to her about Santa for the last month and reading lots of books and she's old enough to "believe"!

Hadley and I baked chocolate chip and white macadamia nut cookies for Santa. We also left him a glass of Pepsi. It looks like he liked it and shared with his reindeer too. Check out the crumbs!

When we were trying to get Hadley to go to bed, she went over and sat in the chair instead of heading downstairs.  We asked her what she was doing and she said, "I want to see him."  We told her that she couldn't see Santa tonight and she had to go to bed.  She then said, "I already saw him?" (meaning at the mall)  We told her "Yes you did already see him, but he's so busy on Christmas Eve that he meets the kids early to get their wish lists.  He's very busy because he has to deliver all of the toys to all the kids in the world."  She agreed and downstairs we headed for bed.  She was out like a light!