xmas

xmas morning big guy actually slept in until 6:45 (yay!) due to xmas eve festivities.  We got up and let big guy open his gifts in hope of a repeat from last year, where big guy played quietly for an hour while hubs and I got to relax.  It sort of worked out!  Aunt M was visiting, so we opened her gifts and she opened ours before she went to take the dog to the dog park.  Following her departure, hubs and I started on our respective piles.  My highlights being a new camera- it's pink!- and a pair of real hunter wellies.  Hubs highlights were a new pair of slippers -from the croc website- and a new wedding ring (he lost his last year at the pool).  Big guy got a new wooden thomas train set (misty island shake shake bridge) and the coolest thing ever- duplo train set!  Both of which he alternately played with for the rest of our xmas vacation.

following present opening, hubs made us a HUGE breakfast- pancakes and bacon.  All of which we all ate too much of, but hubs makes the best pancakes in the world.  After breakfast, we were all playing with our stuff until Grandma J arrived!  Big guy got to open, yes, more presents.  He got puzzles, books, mega blocks train set, and his big present he opened in lancaster (his bike).  big guy at this point was an expert present opener.  he knows to go right for the seams!

After that fun, I put our some snacks.  we had cut up fruit, veggies with dip, cheese and crackers, and I made pepperoni rolls.  We all ate and laughed.  Then went outside to see how the new bike worked on the sidewalk.  Very well actually, we went into the condo complex around the corner's parking lot.  big guy then found a puddle of mud and we were poking/slapping sticks into it for a while.  so long in fact that grandma J and hubs left us to the messiness.  we made it back inside and I ran over to the starbucks, mmm, nothing better than xmas hot chocolate.  hubs put on star wars and big guy passed out (which was our technique the rest of the week. he could barely make it through ten minutes without sleeping. hehe)  but then started coughing and threw up.  sigh.

we finished the night with the polar express and more nebulizing before turning it in!  Xmas was a wonderful day, but we weren't quite done yet!