Christmas Day

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So this post is a little late, but I have been obsessed with spending my free time reading the Twilight Series. And since I am waiting for the last two books to arrive from Amazon.com--I guess I better get caught up. Another thing that has been occupying my time--loads and loads of dishes. Our dishwasher broke down three weeks ago and I have been washing dishes by hand since! No fun. Turns out the pump was busted in it, and it's brand new! The part is now here and they should be coming to install it tomorrow, and my books are supposed to be here tomorrow, so....hopefully a good day!

JR and I woke up on Christmas morning to the sound of Eli playing in his crib. He likes to turn on his fishy aquarium, that he got last Christmas, and listen to the music for a while. Thankfully he had a good night, which means I had a good night. JR and I quickly got ready and went to go get him together. We had put his presents out the night before, so I was really anxious to see his reaction to everything. He went straight to the train table and started playing with that. JR got the video camera ready while I snapped a few pictures. I still wish now looking back I had taken some more, but we do have about 40 minutes on video so I think that is enough. I also made some coffee really quick since I knew it might take awhile for Eli to open his presents.

He started opening up the presents, all he really needed from us was to tear it a little and he did pretty good the rest of the way. Of course he wanted to play with the toys as soon as he saw them. We tried to encourage him to open all the presents first. By the end, he'd gotten bored with opening them, so we did the rest. He got:

Plenty of books
Fisher Price Little People Barnyard with Animals (he loves this one)
Little Tykes Cozy Coupe
Step 2 Train Table
Vtech Bouncin' Turtle
Bath Toys
Crayola Tadoodles Paints
A stuffed piggy
Sit-n-spin
Leap frog fridge magnets
A musical turtle that plays 40 songs
Some CD's
Some gift cards

The following items he also got for Christmas but he is scared of them, so they have been put away for the time being:

Tickle Me Elmo Hands
A little cat that laughs and rolls around on the floor
A soft barnyard with 4 soft farm animals that make sounds
Dancing Santa

After opening up the presents and cleaning up I started making breakfast. JR enjoyed regular pancakes while Eli and I had blueberry pancakes. While I cleaned up, daddy and Eli started playing with toys. Eli got tired pretty quickly with all the excitement. I started getting the turkey prepared while Eli took his nap. We decided to go play in the snow once Eli woke up from his nap. I didn't have a specific snowsuit for him, so I just had to dress him as warmly as I could. It was still so cold outside even though we were bundled up. We probably only stayed outside for 15 minutes. Eli wasn't really sure what to think of the snow. He fell a few times walking around, probably from walking in the snow and from how bundled up he was!

After coming in from the snow, it was getting time to make the sides for dinner. Since I didn't have a dishwasher, I tried to make things a little easier and just bought pre-prepared items like already made mashed potatoes, frozen corn, etc. Really the only thing I had to make was the stuffing and that only took a few minutes. I put some rolls in the oven, but those were easy too. We had quite a feast. Eli only had some rolls, gravy, and mashed potatoes. I filled his plate with everything and I guess that might have been a little overwhelming for him. I also baked a pumpkin pie (frozen and in a box) but it was pretty good.

It was a great Christmas. We missed our family of course, but I guess we are our family now and have to make new traditions. I'm already looking forward to next Christmas!