Tessie found lots of new things to play with at her cousins' house, including her cousins. She enjoyed basketball:
the piano:
and trimming the Christmas tree:
...but the most fun of all was knocking over Adam and John's Lego creations:
But of course the highlight of the visit was opening gifts on Christmas Eve. (Yes, on Christmas Eve. I was raised in an open-gifts-on-Christmas-morning family, Hannah's is a open-gifts-on-Christmas-Eve family. This is probably the greatest challenge in our relationship.)
Last Christmas, Tessie was only 4 1/2 months old, so she didn't really 'get it,' and slept through most of it as well. This year was different. She seems to really like all the decorations, especially the colored lights. 
And of course she loves the gifts. Here she is reading a new book and wearing a new hat:
She's still a bit too young to fully understand the holiday; we haven't yet introduced the concept of Santa Claus, and have not taken her to a mall to visit him. Maybe next year.
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