Christmas Cheer

This Christmas season with Sam has been a blast. Last Christmas was all sweet and sentimental since it was his "first" Christmas, but this one takes the cake for fun and excitement. Probably more for mommy and daddy, but still.

I think I have come to the conclusion that Christmas, especially in the early years may really be more fun for the parents. I had so much fun shopping and wrapping and anticipating Sam's reaction to receiving his gifts. I was so ridiculously excited. Dave was too. It was really fun. Perhaps we went a bit overboard with the gifiting... I tried to steer away from the plastic and batteries... :)

We have had a very full Christmas holiday. We ended up spending Christmas Eve at home. It turned out to be fairly quiet because I managed to pick up the dreaded bug that Sam had harbored the week before. Grandpa came over, solo because Melissa was also feeling poorly. We ended up getting some Chinese takeout and then called it a night early.

Sam woke up early Christmas morning all excited. I'll chalk that up to kid intuition! Fortunately we all went back to sleep for a bit. My illness was in full force so I had to be somewhat of a bystander whilst nursing a cup of coffee! We had a few unwrapped presents under the tree and those caught the little man's attention first. Eventually we coaxed him into checking out what was UNDER the paper rather than play with the already open gifts! Once he discovered what was under the paper, he was content to check out that toy/book/puzzle. We still have unwrapped gifts at home because we ran out of time! We had a fantastic, relaxing morning at home. It was really nice to have a quiet Christmas morning. After nap, we headed out to Grandpa's for Christmas dinner. It was us and Grandpa and Melissa, her mother and some family friends. We had a blast. It was the best Christmas day in ages. Sam loved getting to play with the young ones there and also loved the MORE gifts he received! The meal was fantastic and Melissa had decorated the house to the nines! Perfect.

Christmas happened again on Friday when we rose ourselves out of a perfect slumber and caught an early flight to Grandma and Grandpa Tim's in Florida. Sam looked at Grandma quizzically at first then gave her a big smile. He, of course, got even more presents after arriving here! Grandma got him a little more plastic than we did! Sam's been having a blast swimming in the pool (at least twice a day) and roaming around the house holding court. The little man is certainly the one calling the shots. Its hysterical. He has taken to the Florida lifestyle quite well and is toddling around in his shorts and sandals with pride! I think we may never go back to the cold...

We'll enjoy another 6 days here then head back home to reality and another Christmas because a delayed box from the Mississippi family apparently just arrived at our doorstep. More presents!! I think we're going to have to put some presents away and rotate the toys. I'm overwhelmed at all of them!

I definitely need to get to posting pics to this blog soon. We have some good ones of the little man this holiday season! Until then...