ScrumpyDaddy

Posted by Rachel

Merry Christmas! Abby woke up at around 6am and joined us in bed until about 6:30. She got up and went down stairs to see if Santa had come. He had! She said that he had eaten the cookies she left him, drank the milk, and the reindeer ate the carrot. Zach heard the noise and got up.

We all headed downstairs. Dave got the coffee started and Abby began to look at the presents. She was reading all the names on them and played Santa handing out the presents. She needed a little help understanding the to and from part of the tag in order to know who it should be given to. She was very excited to start opening gifts and didn’t want to wait. I just love the excitement, though a little patience would have been nice. We wanted to put Christmas music on and didn’t get to before she started opening gifts.

Zach on the other hand could have cared less about opening gifts. We kept trying during the whole present opening time to get him to rip and pull the paper off the gifts, but Abby ended up doing most of it for him. He liked the paper after it was off the gift, but didn’t really help get it off. At his 2nd birthday or next Christmas I am sure he will be just like his sister ripping the paper off and immediately wanting the toy opened.

After gift opening we had a wonderful breakfast of cinnamon rolls and sausage links. Yum!

After breakfast Abby tried her new WII game and controller. It was great they make kid size WII controllers that come in pink or green. We of course got pink for Abby. The controller is slightly smaller and fits perfectly in her hand. Check her out playing Nickelodeon Fit. I would recommend this to any parent. It is wonderful and really gets them moving while watching some of their favorite characters. It has the Backyardigans, Dora, Diego, and one that we didn’t know Kai-lan.

We headed over to my inlaw’s house around 10:45. Dave’s sister and brother-in-law were already there (they stay there when visiting – live in Raleigh, NC). My father-in-law was out picking up Dave’s Grandmother. She moved back to the Pittsburgh area last spring. It is great having her in town. We were waiting on Dave’s brother and his family to come over when we got call from him around 11:30 saying they weren’t coming over. Unfortunately his brothers son was up all night getting sick so they weren’t coming over. Bummer! It is always hard to get sick, but especially around the holidays. Hopefully we will see them again soon when everyone is healthy.

We ended up having a very nice day. Zach did much better in the afternoon actually opening his gifts. They got some wonderful gifts like a little people zoo and fire truck. Abby got a pink Barbie BW Beetle. Not too much, which was nice considering how crowded our playroom already is. I am going to put away some of the baby stuff that Zach doesn’t really play with anymore. He likes to play with whatever Abby is playing with, which at times causes quite the problems.

We left the in-law’s house around 4:30pm to come home and play some more with our new toys. Dave’s brother and his family were heading over there and we didn’t want to take the chance of our kids getting whatever they had, especially since we are heading to Rochester for New Years to be with my family.

We spent the rest of the night playing with toys and then Dave and I enjoyed watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” together after the munchkins were in bed. We had a great Christmas together!