Christmas

Christmas morning we had to wake the boys up to get things going.  I was a little surprised, I was expecting Timmy to try to get us up pretty early, but he was really worn out.  We were as excited as he was coming down the stairs, but I have to say that his reaction to the pile of gifts and his Bumblebee Power Wheels was pure happiness, without a hint of surprise.  He knew he was getting Bumblebee, the surprise would have been if it wasn't there apparently!  He climbed right in and said, "I want Tyler to sit too!" and asked me to buckle them both up.  He stepped on the gas in three short bursts, laughing and beaming, before Tyler started crying and I got him out!  Timmy was perfectly willing to get out as well and see what his other gifts were.

Opening presents was truly a joy this year, Timmy was happy to pass presents out and to help Tyler open his gifts, but if he wasn't actively doing something, he was asking, "There are more presents for me?"  After almost every gift he opened he would say, "It's just what I wanted!" even if it was something I was pretty sure he hadn't known existed until he opened it, it was so cute.  He got very excited to see us open the gifts he had picked out for us as well.  When we finished with the gifts he asked, "I wonder if Santa ate his cookie?" and he went to check.  He seemed more surprised at the bite missing from the cookie then he did from his Bumblebee!

Our next stop was Elena and Al's for a delicious breakfast and more gifts.  I was genuinely surprised by my present from them, a pair of blue lamps for our living room, and I had to laugh because the week before Christmas Tim had started talking about redecorating our living room and getting some more color in there, and we had tried to find a rug we both liked, but failed.  I found it amusing that Tim's desire for new decor ended up being my presents (and it turned out to be from both his parents, as his dad got me new curtains!) but I absolutely love how our living room looks now, so they were great gifts!

We brought Bumblebee with us and Brayden brought his new jeep over too.  They had a blast driving around on the yard and pipestem.  Steering took a little practice for Timmy, there were a few narrow misses of the yard decorations and he actually hit Aunt Becky's car tire!  He loved every minute of it though.

We spent most of the afternoon at Tim and Susan's and got to visit with Tim's Grandma, Uncle, Aunt, and Cousins as well.  We also had a delicious dinner there, though I'm pretty sure Timmy didn't eat anything but cake the entire day.

Aunt Becky came home with us and we all alternated between stretches of barely moving and lots of activity as we opened toys for Timmy one at a time and put out our new curtains and lamps.  Next year Santa needs to bring one package of every type of battery known to man.  Poor Timmy was tortured for days by toys I wouldn't let him open because we didn't have batteries for!  Timmy also tried on almost every piece of clothing he got.  For this picture he is wearing Becky's gift, the Radford Sweatshirt, on top of his Redskins Jersey from Grandad, Basketball Jersey from Santa, and Spiderman shirt from Santa.  We had to plead with him to show us his Spiderman shirt to get him out of all the layers!

And before bed I couldn't resist trying Timmy's first Christmas outfit on Tyler, here is this years Santa Baby!  Merry First Christmas, handsome boy!