Christmas 2011

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas was great, as always! Everyone always says how special it is to see Christmas through the eyes of a child and this was the first year that we really got to experience it! While Brady was less than thrilled about sitting on Santa's lap this year, he was very excited about the idea of Santa bringing him presents and Santa did exactly that. First, let me back up a little bit and introduce "Jingle Bells." "Jingle Bells" is our resident Elf on the Shelf, who was introduced on Thanksgiving Day when we were in Easton. Brady LOVES "Jingle Bells" and every day would look for him throughout the house. He was so excited whenever he found him. He was old every day that "Jingle Bells" was watching for Brady to be a good boy or a bad boy and either way would report back every night to Santa in the North Pole. Brady was always telling "Jingle Bells" that he wanted a train table!! Did I mention that Brady LOVES "Jingle Bells." Even after Christmas Brady would ask where J.B. was and we told him that he would have to wait until Thanksgiving to see him again. He was a little sad.

The night before Christmas, Brady helped us put out milk and cookies (and beer) for Santa and carrots for Rudolph!

Santa and Rudolph devoured the cookies, milk, carrots and beer, too!

Christmas morning we woke up and Brady was still asleep, probably one of the last years that he will sleep later than we did! Chris ran downstairs and made coffee and we turned on the Christmas tree lights.  When Brady woke up he kept saying "presents, I open presents? Today?"

We all went downstairs where the house smelled like freshly brewed coffee and cinnamon and pomegranate from the candle that we had burning and the tree was aglow and sat down with our Little Man and our Sugar Baby. Brady didn't know what to open first! He would open a toy and then ask us to open it and we told him we were going to wait to open it until after we were all finished. He enjoyed opening his sister's presents too!

At the finale of Brady's gift opening, we went over to the fireplace-where there was a note from Santa to Brady:

We headed downstairs to Brady's final present and low and behold there was Brady's favorite thing!

A TRAIN TABLE!! :)

I hope that everyone had a MERRY CHRISTMAS!