Christmas Morning at Our House

Steve and I were so excited Christmas Eve night to get home and set up our living room for xmas morning! We hadn't put any presents under the tree so it was nice to have them there looking so festive and we set up the video camera on the tripod and got the coffee set up so that we could devote all of our attention to the munchkin. Ethan slept until normal time and didn't remember that it was Christmas when he woke up. When I reminded him he was very interested in seeing if Santa had left him any presents so we came straight downstairs. He was in awe of all the presents that had arrived overnight and didn't know what to do first! We weren't sure what his reaction was going to be but he was very subdued. He went to his stocking first and then opened this gift from our neighbors Alice and Bob. You can tell I still hadn't had much coffee at this point.



Santa brought Ethan a juice box and mini chocolate chip muffins. I think he figured it was the only way we would get the munchkin to eat anything for the morning.



On my trip to Huntsville last month I picked up some Auburn gear for the boys! Steve and Ethan sing the Auburn fight song at bedtime a lot so E has become a big fan.



Ho-hum. Christmas is SO boring...



We saved "The Black Train with the Remote Control" for last and we weren't sure how that was going to go. I thought for sure he'd be looking for it first thing but he didn't even mention it! He was so funny when he opened it. At first he didn't even recognize it! It was a good thing we left it for last because we of course had to set it up right away and it takes up a lot of space.

Ah yes...the remote control.

It was so frustrating to watch him play with this at first! There's a dial that if you turn it to the right it goes forward and to the left it goes backward. It also goes faster the further you turn the knob. He kept turning the knob back and forth, back and forth, really fast and the train was so confused! At one point he said it wasn't working very well so we had to try and show him how to use it. He's got the hang of it now.

I love this look of concentration. It's not easy being the young conductor.

I was trying to get Ethan to sit with the train or lie next to the train and he was doing everything but those things...of course!

Since we had the tripod out, we decided to take a family picture. Guess who wouldn't look...

This is Ethan putting his tools on his new workbench. Steve spent a good part of the morning putting this bad boy together and Ethan is very particular about where his tools go...as you can imagine.

It took us about an hour and a half to open all our gifts. Ethan wanted to open and check out each present he opened so that took a while which was really nice. He really appreciated each gift this year. As did we! It was a cozy Christmas morning at home.