Christmas

Our Christmas Eve was quiet, which was nice, considering our busy schedule for the next 3-4 days after. The only place we went on Christmas Eve was church. Daddy came along and Ryan was upset that the childrens program was closed. He did not want to come into the auditorium with us, but finally agreed. For the most part he was good. He talked almost the whole time, narrating what was happening, but it was to be expected with so many children inside. He left twice with Daddy - once because the music was too loud (he can be quite sensitve about sound) and once to use the washroom. Afterwards, there were lots of crafts set up for the kids so we stayed and Ryan made a snowman made of timbits (he got to ice them with white frosting and put all kinds of treats such as pretzels, gum drops, licorice, and sprinkles on it to make eyes, arms, buttons, etc....). He did not want to eat his snowman, but wanted to make another one instead. At home after a nice dinner we had Ryan open about 5 of his gifts. We left out cookies and milk for Santa and some carrots for the reindeer. Ryan kept asking if Santa was here yet and I had to keep telling him Santa would not come until he was asleep. He slept till about 8:30-9am but when he woke up he was so excited to go down to see if Santa was here. We had a great time opening all his Santa gifts in his stocking and then had breakfast and opened all his gifts from us.

We left for Angus just after noon and spent the day at my sisters. We had a big turkey lunch and opened all the gifts for the kids. This year there was no gift exchange for the adults, except for some handmade ones, such as a handprint snowman ornament Ryan and I made for my parents. On boxing day we went to Hamilton to visit Daddys parents. Some of Ryans favorite gifts this year were an air hockey table, a chuggington train set, alphabet fishing game, hungry hungry hippos game, a toy saxophone, a set of planets (which we were going to hang, but he wants them as toys), a handy manny tool set, a fur-real dog, a wubbzy toy that makes sounds when you move his tail, and a word builder magnetic toy for the fridge.