Are Those Christmas Jammies?

Our family is currently at the phase where the kids are okay with being dressed alike. In fact, they think it's pretty awesome when we can wrangle matching clothes for all of them. Hence, the Christmas pajamas tradition.

Umm... yeah. We are at a good matching stage, but not a good picture-taking stage.
Anyway, they turned out pretty well this year, if I do say so myself.

Christmas this year was nice. We braved the snowy roads to travel to Utah to be with family, so we got a lot of Grandma and extended family time. We also somehow managed to get together with all of my sisters and got this awesome picture (minus Elinor's nose-picking).

For gifts, we've been doing "something you want, something you need, something to wear, and something to read" for the last couple of years and it's been working really well. I like that it curbs my tendency to go overboard and also steers our gift-giving thinking in such a great direction. My favorite thing this year by far was the books the kids got. Emily got The Seven Silly Eaters, which has been a family favorite for years. Caleb got Creepy Carrots, which none of us had read before, but was an instant hit. And it's totally his style. Elinor got Llama Llama Red Pajama and loved it right away. All of these books have such great illustrations and are so much fun to read aloud. Jacob is too much of a baby to count as a person yet.

See? He'll probably get a book next year though.