WASHINGTON — The NICU babies at Children's National Hospital are ready to celebrate their very first Christmas.
To spread joy ahead of the holiday, hospital staff dressed up their littlest patients in festive attire.
And all we can say is, so elfin cute!
Children's National Hospital NICU babies dress up for Christmas
A reminder from the NICU: Our precious babies are on continuous cardio-respiratory monitoring. Parents and caregivers should always follow the AAP safe sleep guidelines: Babies should be on their own sleep surface and under no circumstances should babies at home be placed prone to sleep, or have items such as toys, loose bedding, or blanket rolls in their cribs.
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Santa Claus has started his journey to deliver presents to homes across the globe, but the website for NORAD's Santa Tracker had a bit of trouble keeping up early on.
NORAD is tracking Santa on Christmas Eve into Christmas Day, just like they've done for more than six decades. Shortly after the live updates were supposed to begin at 6 a.m. Eastern, people from all around the world began noticing the map was blank.
The official NORAD Santa Tracker Facebook page explained around 6:30 a.m. Eastern that they were having some website issues. By 7:30 a.m. Eastern, everything had been sorted out and the map was live.
According to NORAD's Santa Tracker, a total of 7,623,693,263 gifts were delivered last year.
While the Santa Tracker website has been online for several weeks, the real show gets underway on the morning of Christmas Eve. Starting at 4 a.m. Eastern on Dec. 24, NORAD began tracking Santa with updates from around the world.