Christmas was absolutely incredible this year. Even though we got nothing but rain (Brown Christmas, anyone?) we had an absolute blast. The weekend before, we we blessed to have all of our family in town, and the boys got to see all of their cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, parakeets, orangutans, et-cetera, et-cetera.
In addition, Emerson got to go to the Aquarium and his new favorite place, COSI.
He and Henry had a blast ... Emerson is so excited to explore EVERYTHING. He loves to figure out how things work. Henry ran laps around Kidspace while Emerson sat contently examining the plastic bricks. And splashing. And splashing some more.
When it came to Christmas itself, Henry was a little more chill that morning than we thought he'd be. He had been so excited about everything else that we thought he'd explode when he saw the Christmas tree loaded up with presents. He was definitely interested, but not giddy. That is, until he started opening his presents ....
Then it was ON! We all stayed in our jammies until 2:30 PM, skipped out on going over to my parents house (sorry, Grammy and Grandpa) to lounge around some more, then went to a big family Christmas for dinner. After years upon years of trucking around to a bazillion places each Christmas, this was my first to just sit around all day (and we still had to leave for dinner!). Merry Christmas to all!
In addition, Emerson got to go to the Aquarium and his new favorite place, COSI.
He and Henry had a blast ... Emerson is so excited to explore EVERYTHING. He loves to figure out how things work. Henry ran laps around Kidspace while Emerson sat contently examining the plastic bricks. And splashing. And splashing some more.
When it came to Christmas itself, Henry was a little more chill that morning than we thought he'd be. He had been so excited about everything else that we thought he'd explode when he saw the Christmas tree loaded up with presents. He was definitely interested, but not giddy. That is, until he started opening his presents ....
Then it was ON! We all stayed in our jammies until 2:30 PM, skipped out on going over to my parents house (sorry, Grammy and Grandpa) to lounge around some more, then went to a big family Christmas for dinner. After years upon years of trucking around to a bazillion places each Christmas, this was my first to just sit around all day (and we still had to leave for dinner!). Merry Christmas to all!
