First, we want to show What Santa gave Mommy and Daddy compared to what he gave us.

Daddy and Mommy's gift – a 32" gi-mun-go movie theater quality televising, which comes complete with the ability to show Shari and Lambchop. Holey Schmoley! Great gift! AND, we're allowed to watch it, too!

Now, compare that to our gifts!

A spring!

A stool unraveling!

A pretend TV!

An irregular ball with eyes!!!

We were quite upset a'fore Daddy and Mommy s'plained the gifts. Do you know how hard it is to look happy about getting a spring for Christmas? 'course, the spring is a Slinky! The stool is a yo-yo! The pretend TV is an Etch-a-sketch! And the irregular ball (which is Dee and Ding's birthday gift)?! Welll, ummm, it' an irregular ball called a koosh ball. Well, since it has a face on it, it's really called a kooshkin!

Mommy and Daddy need to teach us how to play with all these things. Apparently, they really all are toys, so we did get a good Christmas!

The good news is we did exciteded over some of our other gifts immediately.

Mommy caught us trying to make sure our stocking was hung properly! Last year, our stocking was hung on our handrail leading to upstairs. Much easier to reach! (She just laughed and told us that was the reason she moved it. Should mommies be doing such things to little teddies?)

Here's a close up of our new stocking! He's a stuffed doggy that sings an excellent version of "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays!" And, we hope you can understand why we wanted to get to our stocking so quickly! We thought we losteded Phil, our new little brother! Happily, Santa Paws slipped him into the stocking over night. He is our bestest Christmas present ever, of course! (He says that the stocking was quite comfy to sleep in. Now we want to sleep in the stocking, too!)

Here's Phil sitting on another favoritestest Christmas gift – a box of bubble wrap and popping cushions! If you ever wonder why Santa doesn't give you your stuff wrapped up in bubble wrap and popping cushions, it's a'cuz he loves us the mostest! Kehehehehe We like to jump off, really high, from the sofa into this box. It makes great noises, and Mommy is sure we'll need Lysol. Kehehehehehe

(Mommy Note: They're spending a bit of time laughing at their joke, plus making those sounds, causing them to laugh more. This may take a while.)

This is our new, little brother, Phil! He really likes the Santa cap that Santa gave him. We think Mommy might have to make him his own cap, or this one will never leave his head!

Santa and Sandy also gave us a Blu-Ray player, to go with the TV. And, since we’ve never seen an oh-fish-earl blu-ray movie before, they gave us one of the bestest movies ever – Close Encounter of the Third Kind! Phil's never seen it before! (He's never seen most movies before.) We watched it this afternoon. We are mostest impressed how clear our HDTV is, but couldn't tell if Blu-Ray is clearerer.

Dinner was wonderful – turkey, rice stuffing with raisins, baked carrots and raisins, sweet taters and mashed taters, hue-mung-us brussel sprouts, pickled green tomatoes from our garden, and cranberry sauce! AND, the only thing we had to do was pop it in the oven from the freezer! We kept one leftover dinner from Thanksgiving, so the only thing we had to add was the cranberry sauce and pickles, which were made a while ago! We all had a full-fledge holiday, with no work! Good Christmas...ummm, except Mommy didn't lose all the photos. Try not to laugh! Since Mommy made us do this, she gets to s'plain them. (This is so humiliating!)

We found an Real Angel, a Christmas Present, and a Gingerbread Man under our Christmas Tree!

Here's a closer look. Aren't they just so adorable? (I'm hearing, "Mommmmmmmmmmmmmm!") Behind them is the only shot of Santa Paws from this year, along with Axlerod and Pez, who were all staying very still, knowing we have another Gingerbread Man outfit, just in case! I have the cutest stuffed animals in the whole world! Gotta agree when you see these pictures, doncha?