Anyway, Christmas was wonderful. Chloe still didn't completely get the whole Santa thing. But, she amazes me with her attempts to make sense of things. Not sure if I told this story... When we would talk to Chloe about seeing Santa, she would say, "I be a fairy." I think she decided that if that guy was going to dress in that crazy red costume, then she was going to wear her "Fwaaaaiwy wif tights!" SO, I kind of had to plant in her head that she was going to ask for a baby. Then, Santa came to visit on Christmas Eve and gave out a few little things. The next morning before we went out of the bedroom I said, "Do you want to see if Santa brought your baby?" She said, "No, Santa go home already." Because he did indeed go home. It's just so fun to get to see her make sense of the world. I'm sure the boys did this same thing but they were less interested in talking about every little thing, so I didn't get this little window into their thinking in quite the same way.
The boys were so excited about the wii and Jake has barely left the basement. Wyatt like to play with a variety of toys andlike the wii, but isn't quite as glued to it. I haven't limited time at all because Justin and I have beenworking like crazy getting organized around here. We are pretty much done. I'll post some pictures soon. I thought I had saved all the pictures of our house before we sold it and now I can't locate them! We did so much work to that house and it will really be a shame if I lost al the pictures of Justin's hard work.
We had multiple celebrations with numerous sides of the families and drove hundreds of miles in 4 short days. It is sometimes exhausting to travel, but it was so worth it. We all had a great time.
Here are pics from The get together at Grandma Lori's (Justin's Mom's mom)
Here's a few from Christmas morning at Justin's dad's
Here are a couple from my Grandma's on Christmas day but most were too fuzzy:
More Pictures Coming soon...
I need to have someone look at my camera. Chloe and Wyatt had their faces painted. 
You'll notice the sad look on Wyatt's face. 
He's not really sad, just trying not to smile, as you can see in this one. The thing in his cheek is a reindeer.
These cousins have the most fun together.
On our way home the next morning:
Chloe has become obsessed with Julie, the new historical American Girl doll. She's the girl of the 70's. 
They have gameboys that they loan out to brothers who have been forced to go with their sisters, so the boys were pretty happy.
One is a tiny little tape recorder Wyatt looked at it and said, "Hey, she has an Ipod." Hehe. I love that she's the girl of the 70's. 
The boys were such little gentlemen. They have just grown up so much.
We were trying to describe to Wyatt what it would have been like to bring him there when he was two. Finally, we said, "You, know, like if we brought Joey." He smiled and understood.
Wyatt, Chloe and I all fell asleep in the car on the way home and Julie is sleeping next to Chloe as we speak.
I have never had such a huge feeling of relief as I did walking out of that court room. We saw Chloe that morning. It was the day they gave us all the milestones they had tracked in her 17 months. They really did an amazing job of marking all her milestones. We feel so fortunate to know when she crawled and walked and everything else, just like we do for the boys. So many kids know nothing about their life before adoption except what they remember. Here's Chloe that morning.
And here's a video clip story time with Chloe. She's wearing her beloved Jojo jammies passed down to her by one-size-bigger-cousin, Joey
What a day!
