We were supposed to go to WV to visit the families but Winter Storm Draco had other plans. Instead, the three of us spent nearly 5 entire days cooped up in the house together. Let's just say Evan was quite excited to go to daycare this morning.
Since we didn't travel, it was business as usual until Monday. On Monday, we got to Skype with Aunt Annie in Afghanistan. Evan's interest lasted about 2 minutes but at least I got to talk to her for a while.
We tried to get some shots of Evan and Laika by the tree on Christmas Eve... but this is all we ended up with:
I'm pretty sure he was just about to climb on top of her. That's definitely his "watch this" face.
On the night before Christmas, I was not in my 'kerchief, nor was David in his cap but I took some pictures that made that poem impossible to get out of my head.
Our stockings were hung by the not-chimney with care. This picture is the story of a growing toddler. Last year the stockings were hung on the shelf. As you can see, they've moved up and out of toddler reach. The bottom cabinets are taped closed (we're classy like that) and the bottom shelves have turned into kid shelves. The top shelves are cluttered full of things that used to be on the bottom and now it's almost not a safe spot anymore! I'm starting to think we should just bite the bullet and turn our entire house into a playroom. It's starting to feel that way, at least.
Evan didn't know Christmas morning from any other morning except that it was Tuesday and why was he not going to daycare...again?! We facetimed with Grandma Janet and Papaw Mike while he opened a few gifts, then we facetimed with Grandma Barbi and Grandpa Ed while he opened a few more.
He opened some books and the gift opening was over. All he wanted to do was read the books. So, he was left with two presents under the tree for after his nap.
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| One tiny piece of paper at a time. |
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| And he insisted on taking each one to the garbage. |
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| He likes the cars. |
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| The unwrapping was going well until the books... |
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| Then it was just reading time. |
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| I was able to convince him to take Lars' gift to him since he was too lazy to join us in the living room. |
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| We played with farm animals and a train track while David made breakfast-lunch (not to be confused with brunch). |
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| My Boys |
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| Me and E |
We had our traditional Christmas Breakfast as lunch because Evan needs to eat pretty quickly after he gets up and Christmas Breakfast takes a while. Biscuits and gravy for lunch is never a bad thing.
We weren't about to have a big Christmas dinner for just the three of us but it seemed depressing and lonely to not do something so we had a small version of Christmas dinner.
As an extra bonus, we got a white day-after-Christmas. Evan semi-enjoyed his first snow adventure. As long as he was standing, it was all good. He did not want to sit down in the snow though.
As a bonus, Evan will get to celebrate Christmas two more times. Once, when Grandma Barbi and Grandpa Ed visit next weekend and again when we celebrate during Annie's Welcome-Back-Michaela's-Birthday-Labor-Day-Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas-New-Years party in February. Best Christmas gift ever = Aunt Annie back home safe and sound! :)
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