what a wonderful Christmas we had this year! we were in rochester this year because bill was on call. thankfully, our families were willing to travel to rochester to help us celebrate Christ's birth. my parents and siblings came for the weekend and bill's family joined us on christmas day.
after bill was done rounding on christmas eve we opened gifts with my family. when we first brought out all of the gifts charlie was convinced they were for him. after a few minutes of reminding him that he could not open all of these gifts he was so good. he actually enjoyed handing people the gifts more than opening them.
during the day my siblings (dan, tom and suzanne) just rotated playing games on the ipad. it drove me insane, but they enjoyed it. my mom and I prepped food for the various meals. my dad graciously completed all of my tasks I had planned for him…thanks dad!
charlie and suz enjoying a post nap snack.
fam hang out time. suz and dan thinking they are cool as “the core” while my dad was being an electron.
before we opened gifts, we read parts of the Christmas story from Luke 1 & 2 and reenacted out the story for charlie with his little people nativity set. we have done this a few times this christmas season and he loves it. the only problem is when we sing “away in the manger” afterwards I think he thinks he is the reason for the season because everyone is looking at him and singing. hopefully we can change that thought in the coming years.
ornament time….some how danny ended up with 3 doctors ornaments because my mom couldn’t decide.
I got a willow tree mother and child ornament that is precious. we gave charlie a tractor ornament and we couldn’t even get a picture of him with it because he was already driving it on the ground and broke a few of the pieces off. (note to self: if you give a toddler an ornament that looks like a toy without a swap out toy ready be prepared for it to break or for a tantrum to be thrown).
lily dressed up with a bow.
bill and tommy together.
the ladies together. me, my mom and suzanne.
my dad with his new tool.
then the fun really started. tommy gave charlie a new hoodie to mob in (tom and charlie have a special relationship that is really sweet. they play together and charlie will yell out “tommm” really loud when he is around so they can play trains or hang). charlie was so proud of his new hoodie and was parading around. he then started getting up on this box and jumping off (whatever a toddler can do – so basically walking off the box). he loved the attention and we were all dying laughing. he also started doing this weird slow motion clap at the end that bill described as a stevie wonder move. too funny.
mid jump.
here is a video to show the fun he had.
before we went to bed, bill and I realized we were now the parents who had to put out gifts and get things ready for Christmas morning.
bill wrapped charlie’s big gift perfectly. I was exhausted and was asleep on the couch.
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