Lucy's Moms, Amy D. and Hilary invited us over for Xmas Eve dinner. As always, Kate was excited to see Lucy.
Lucy is always game for a photo. As is Kate, who's voguing in the background.
Kate brought along her new Cinderella "action" figures.
Hilary's birthday was a couple of weeks earlier, so we also brought her gifts -- two books and a head-bobbing, hip-wiggling, solar-powered monkey from Japan. Chris knew she'd love it, and he was right.
Hilary read aloud, "Library Lion," a book Nana gave to Lucy for Christmas. 
Mom and jolly Kate.
Kate and Lucy are both in a "lipstick" phase, and had fun sniffing each other's scented lip balm. Kate's was blueberry-grape, Lucy's was vanilla.
They played the game "sleep-over" and "camping out" in between bouts of sniffing, singing, and jumping.
Matching green blankets were necessary for this game.
The girls liked changing the locale of their sleep-overs.
The pretty Christmas Eve dinner table. The china was Amy's parents' wedding china.
Roast beef, mashed yams with ginger, Yorkshire Pudding (see photo below), and string beans with shallots, mushrooms, and tomatoes (this dish courtesy of the Kang-Weyants)! Everything was incredible.
Kate loved the roast beef so much, she ate enough for three ("More gogi!").
The beautiful Yorkshire pudding. It was my first time having it. Un-anglo as I am, I thought it was going to be pudding like rice pudding.
After the pumpkin pie dessert, Hilary and Amy brought out "Christmas crackers." Which I thought were crackers that you ate...for Christmas. Inside the cardboard tubes that we "cracked" open were paper crowns, silly riddles (at which Kate laugh heartily, even the ones she didn't get), and toys. It was wonderful. We were all as excited as Kate and Lucy to discover what was inside. And I thought paper crowns were only found in movies like "About A Boy" or at Burger King. I've clearly lived a ghettoized life.
Merry Xmas Eve! Thank you, Chef Amy D!
Time for a post-prandial dance!
Chris decided to shake up all the food inside Kate and Lucy's bellies by flipping them upside-down.
After the pumpkin pie dessert, Hilary and Amy brought out "Christmas crackers." Which I thought were crackers that you ate...for Christmas. Inside the cardboard tubes that we "cracked" open were paper crowns, silly riddles (at which Kate laugh heartily, even the ones she didn't get), and toys. It was wonderful. We were all as excited as Kate and Lucy to discover what was inside. And I thought paper crowns were only found in movies like "About A Boy" or at Burger King. I've clearly lived a ghettoized life.
Merry Xmas Eve! Thank you, Chef Amy D!
Time for a post-prandial dance!
Chris decided to shake up all the food inside Kate and Lucy's bellies by flipping them upside-down.
Thankfully, nobody vomited. 
Lucy and Kate then flipped their skirts over their heads for fun. Kate said, "I'm Mary, and I have a baby in my belly," and sang "Mary had a baby, yes Lord..."
We headed to The Grove to see the "snow" magically fall at exactly 8 o'clock from the movie theater roof.
Kate was thrilled.
"Fake snow! Fake snow, hooray!" My throat started to close and I developed a hacking cough. Probably not a good sign.
Chris took this shot of the girls gazing at Santa plugged into his Xmas iPhone.
Kate and Lucy checked Santa's mailbox to see if there were letters inside.
We all went home sated and happy. It was a lovely Xmas Eve.
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