Christmas Morning with Sage

I'm behind on posting Christmas pictures, but it turns out that after feeling crummy all week that I have come down with the flu and an ear infection. It is GROSS too. I'm not in excruciating pain like I was last night thanks to a shot of rocephin, so I thought I'd attempt to start playing catch up with the blog. Even with all the sickness we've suffered in this house, God allowed Christmas day to be picture perfect. It was just beautiful, relaxing...and just nice. We had all of our family here the day before, so we didn't have to be anywhere, which turned out perfectly for more reasons that I'll show later.

Travis told Sage the night before to call him when she woke up. I was so excited FOR her that I was up a little before 6. By 6:30, Travis and I were drifting in and out of sleep when I heard, "Daddy. Daddy." She was awake! I ran to get her. Ha, I was really that excited for her. Then I said, "Come in our room. So, what's up? What are you awake for? Santa? Was he supposed to come last night? I never heard anything. I'm not sure he came here." After torturing her for a few more minutes like that, we made our way downstairs to see if he HAD come. Jaggar was still asleep, but his turn would come later. I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

She's about to make her way around the corner. The ONLY thing she specifically asked for was "Go Go, My Walking Pup," and she was sure that it had to be in there. (I was hoping Santa would take Mayer or Chanel, but no such luck.)And he DID come! Sage asked for "surprises," and I think Santa came through!
The cake and milk were gone. Where Cara was lying was a present to Sage from her. :)
I think Sage was completely overwhelmed. She has been pretty much every year on Christmas morning. It's like too much to process for her. I tell Santa to downsize, but that hasn't happened yet. So out of piles of presents and a brand new train table, she zones in on a pillow pet.
I guess that I can't blame her. It WAS a RUDOLPH pillow pet, which was made for her. She's slept on it every night since then.
There's no way that I could post a picture of every present that she unwrapped, so I just hit the high points. She was thrilled with this hot pink zhu zhu pet that she had wanted for months.
This smile is over a strawberry shortcake remote controlled car. It is pretty fun.

Looking for Go Go in the midst of everything, but no such luck yet. She was thrilled with the BLUE lalaloopsy doll. She saw a picture of her back in the summer and wanted her.
Finally! (She sleeps with her every night now too.)
Then she went for this....Can you guess what it was?
Watch and see.


Finally! She says that Go Go is her favorite gift, and I guess she would be. She's very cute. I think Go Go is the only dog that we need in this house.
She forgot about the gift from Cara that was laying on the table by the empty plate and milk cup.
It's a pocket elf, a magic elf without the magic, to remind Sage of Cara until she visits again. Sage was not so sure about this. Why doesn't she do stuff? haha. She warmed up to the idea more as the day went on....kind of.
This was from us to Sage. We thought that we couldn't go wrong with that. We were correct.

She got Barbies, and believe it or not, that's the first Barbie that she's owned. She really enjoys them too.
Trying out Go Go.
Sage in the midst of all of her loot. She must have been a pretty good girl to get so much stuff. This was one happy girl. The next day, we watched a bit of church online and Luke was the only one singing. She said, "Is anyone else there?" I said, "No." She said, "Well, I'm glad I'm not there because I have too many new toys to play with.