I totally forgot to mention the best present ever that Thomas got - a wooden train set from his grandparents! He was soon excited. He started yelling about how it was like the one at school and trying to push the train along pieces of track - which is about all they have at school, so it made sense to him.
After we all went to bed, Matt apparently spent some time putting together the train tracks in the recommended pattern. I think we'll end up buying more pieces to make him a monster track. It's pretty impressive all of the fun combinations you can buy online. A little overwhelming actually...
Matt also put the wheels on the elephant, so Thomas was pushing Henry all around the living room. (He even does a good job following the "stay on the carpet" rule). Of course when I tried to get a photo of him being the cutest big brother ever, he tried to play it all cool. Ha!
Henry helped me set up for the family Christmas photo made possible by my new super fancy tripod Matt bought me for Christmas. It's super awesome - it folds down really small, is super light and has a fancy schmancy carrying case. It goes well with the awesome camera bag Heather bought me for Christmas! And of course, I didn't get photos of either of them... "/
Yay for cute family photos in our Christmas pajamas! If you look hard, you can see that Thomas is holding the decoy remote to help with the photo taking. Luckily I convinced him he didn't need to hold it right in front of his face this time! Unlike last year, the dogs missed out having pajamas this time. I thought they wouldn't care, but that might be why we have a random dog butt on the side of the photo - thanks Eliza!
Haha - we had some trouble getting everyone to cooperate with the photo...!
All my boys. Is it sappy to say they are my best presents? I know - it is. Don't care! Love all three of them! :)
Finally stocking time! That was always last in my family, so we did it last this morning. And apparently Matt thinks gifts from Santa shouldn't be unwrapped. I think we always had "Santa" gifts in our stockings. So I could have save a lot of wrapping tie if he had mentioned that sooner. I didn't think Santa would even come up this year, but Thomas mentioned him before we did. Thanks day care... ;)
Figuring the boys would be inundated with presents, I decided to go practical with the stockings. They got stuff like snacks, new bottles or utensils and small hot wheels. Thomas was more excited about his silverware than almost everything else. So easy to please at this age!
One of my favorite toys the kids got was a six pack of inflatable dinosaurs from Matt's brother and family. But man, having to blow up dinosaurs on Christmas morning is pretty good payback from sending their boys harmonicas last year. Though I am *sure* that wasn't their intent... Ha!
After breakfast, we finally got a chance to Skype with Matt's parents. Thomas was pretty happy showing off all of his new gifts to them - he even did some dancing around to the music playing on his new CD player. And it gave me a chance to play with my new tripod and get a photo of all of us! :)
Merry Christmas everyone - hope you all had as great of a day as we did!