Baby's first Christmas

Christmas this year was fantastic.  Absolutely fantastic.  I don't think it could have been any better, actually.  Let's see if I can sum up some of the events of the past few days...

First, Riley had her very first taste of solid food other than rice cereal.  We gave her some delicious sweet potatoes, and at first she wasn't so sure...

Despite the face, after a few bites she LOVED it.  Like, couldn't shovel it in her mouth fast enough.  Yum.  Since then we've also tried bananas, which she also likes, but not as much as sweet potatoes.

Moving on to SANTA and Christmas Eve.   Meet Santa (aka my dad).  He made a special appearance just for little Riley Bug.   

We took bets on whether or not she would cry.  I thought she would, Mark thought she wouldn't.  He was right.  She was quite intrigued by his beard, so I think that helped!

Overall, huge success!  She was pretty tired after such a long day, so we got into bed and before we knew it it was Riley's first Christmas!!!  We had a little surprise in store for everyone.  Check out this Christmas fairy...

Mark picked that out all by himself haha.  It's meant for 2-4 year olds.  But we put it on her anyway, and it was a hit.  And apparently it was delicious!

Then we moved on to opening presents, which basically looked like a lot of this for Riley...

And after a brief outfit change, some more of this...

Riley got LOTS of cool presents (as did Mark and I), pictures to follow shortly!  For now, I leave you with this...