The Love of our grandchildren ages 6 & 3 calling me on my cell at 7 a.m.
telling me what they got from
The family will be coming so share Christmas tomorrow 
Merry Christmas Everybody!!!!!!!
Oh my. I heard a voice I'd never heard this morning from my niece. The family does most of it's unwrapping at mom's on Christmas Eve. But my sis and brother in law save back just a few things for their own Christmas on Christmas morning.
Parker has for the last three or four months decided she wanted her own cell phone. "But five year olds are too little for their own cell phone."
"Ok" has always been the slightly deflated response. Last night she even bet me 10 dollars that since she's been so good she'd actually get one (then asked if I had ten dollars to give her to pay up with if she lost). A cell phone to take with her on sleep overs to a friends house would have been the highlight of her Christmas.
Last night wading through a pile larger than she is she was so good. Would get excited about some new thing and even started giving in to the idea that there wasn't going to be a cell phone. Would say "I don't need a cell phone, I'm happy with just my family, and this (whatever this was at the moment) is great."
So everything got opened last night. It all got hauled to their house and she was sound asleep for the ride home. Totally spent. Apparently didn't wake up until about 8:00 this morning as my phone ring here at 8:03 to hear the happiest bubbliest most angelic voice I've ever heard in my life. "Uncle Donnie, I did get a cell phone I did get a cell phone. Did you see my number? It's pink it's pink it's pink! I don't have to pay ten dollars. I got a cell phone I got a cell phone (and feet can be heard hitting the floor as she's hopping up and down)."
Santa had left her a note to call him about something. The number to call was her new phone's numbers. So the phone went off somewhere close to where she was standing. And a five year old's smile lit the world from there.