See-tah!

Merry Christmas a couple of weeks late! If you haven't noticed, Halloween updates were a couple of weeks after Halloween, Chloe's birthday was a couple of weeks after her birthday, and so it's natural that Christmas would follow suit. We had a great day and the kids really enjoyed it. Here we have the lineup of all of the Ellingson children located at Ellingson command central Christmas morning: from left to right, Amber, Daniel, Kyle, Seth, Ethan, Kaleb, Chloe, and Linus, who can't stand yet. :-)


Here is Linus enjoying the tag to his toy more than his toy.
Chloe remembered well how to open presents from her birthday a month previous. I think she thought that it was her birthday again, because she kept singing "Happy Day!" and got quite upset when she realized that she couldn't open everyone's presents.

Papa Brown came to visit for the afternoon and we had fun playing ping pong, eating good food, and opening even more gifts!Here is Chloe and Linus enjoying their new table. Linus sits in it very well and he loves to pound his hands on the table. Chloe loves to eat her fruit snacks on it now.
All in all it was a relaxing day, and a very relaxing break. I think we played games pretty much the whole time. Aunt Beth and Uncle Ben came to visit the day after Christmas for a week from California, so it was nice to see them. I even got to take some pictures for an old high school friend, which was so much fun. And now we are all back to the grind...if you can call singing "Kumbaya" with kindergartners and playing "Lou, Lou, Skip to my Lou" "the grind". :-) Next stop, Spring Break! .... Oi!