The Final Countdown

Lately at night we get asked "Is it Christmas eve?" Then in the morning we hear, "It's very very daytime!" (well, we hear that every morning) or "It's Christmas!" What a fun thing! We've got a couple countdowns in our house, but it is a difficult concept to learn.
We are headed to Grandma's for Christmas. The kids are very excited about that, too.

We tried (rather unsuccessfully) to get a good a holiday pic:

R waited while M had a wardrobe change:
We tried bribing them to sit still for a minute AND smile:

But it didn't work:

Ray, this is probably the best pic of that SUPER cute dress/shoes. I'll keep trying though. I DO wish this one wasn't blurry...

ETA: We did get a rather cute one. I'll just post it later this week.