Sara T made a post about Christmas on her blog for memories sake and I thought what a fabulous idea. So, without further ado, a recount of December 24-27.
We were fortunate enough to see the Bible's on the 19th for Christmas, so we didn't have to leave our hometown from Christmas Eve - Sunday. Christmas Eve, my mom made dinner for her side of the family. Brody did the entertaining after dinner. Typically we would attend church, but special church services just don't work out with Brody's schedule right now and with three more days of celebrating ahead, we hated to disrupt his schedule too much. Christmas Day, Brody woke to find Santa had indeed visited our house. Grammy and Grampy were there to witness him open his first Christmas gifts from Santa. He didn't get much because there were still basically three days of Christmas left for him and he just had a birthday!
Brody has a love for chewing on his socks! Only his socks though...I threw one of my clean socks from the laundry basket on the floor the other day and he had no interest in it whatsoever.
We joined Aunt Helen, Unky Dave, Cousin Mike, my grandparents and parents for a lovely Christmas morning breakfast. Brody barely made it through breakfast before he was ready for a siesta though. That Santa business was exciting stuff you know!
We spent the rest of the day at Grammy and Grampy's playing/lounging/napping/cooking for the BIG Yakey Christmas that afternoon/evening. Grampy likes to take Brody into the nursery at their house to play. He can lounge on the bunk beds and Brody can climb all over the bed and bounce! He also thinks it is fun to climb on an off the bed...gets old if you ask me, but it's what the kid likes to do.
Christmas night all the Yakey's celebrated in style. Brody had no interest in his own gifts, but wanted to help Aunt Vickie open hers. Good thing she doesn't mind sharing the duty of unwrapping. Brody stayed up until almost 9:00, which is unheard of for him, but he wouldn't want to chance missing some action somewhere. Grandpa and Grandma Yakey gave both the boys a minature ATV to ride. They have to 'fred flinstone' it to make them go, so a lot of pushing around took place. Brody announced that he was going to be a BIG brother in July. He shocked most everyone...pretty fun to see everyone's reactions!
Cohen was winding down for the day and found a comfy spot to drink his milk. Grandpa is always thrilled to hold a little tike if they are willing to sit for a spell. He also likes to get down on the floor and play with Brody and Cohen. He might play heck getting back up, but he is determined to play. So Christmas Day came to an end, and Brody fell asleep the instant we put him in the vehicle that evening. Once home, Kurt had to place a few phone calls and shock his family with our expanding family news.
Brody was up at 7:00 the next morning ready to go to Grammy's to see Cohen. We had a fabulous breakfast of bacon, eggs, and scones. Brody and Cohen enjoyed sharing their breakfast. I vacuumed up the leftovers and settled Brody in for his nap. Michelle got Cohen down for his morning nap and we both enjoyed a breakfast uninterrupted! That was a gift in itself!!
We opened gifts in a leisurely fashion. Brody received a fabulous radio flyer wagon complete with canopy, a fun egg shaped chair that spins in circles, a tent complete with tunnel, some books/dvd's and the best gift of all, a baby trampoline. Brody loves to jump...he will stand anywhere and jump and seriously get air time. He also likes to sit on his butt and bounce. So, Uncle Chris and Aunt Katy hooked him up with his very own trampoline, complete with a bar to hang onto. Brody knew instantly what to do with it. I have a video to post soon of him in action. It's pretty funny stuff!
Uncle Justin was a busy guy leading up to Christmas. He made a designer outfit, think Borat style, for Kurt. Dear Kurt doesn't have a shy bone in his body, so he of course rushed to the bathroom to try it on for everyone. He said he couldn't sit down because something might 'pop' out his shorty shorts! I will spare you the pictures though and my video was horrible because I couldn't stop laughing at him. Uncle Chris got a porta-pooper. Justin welded up this lovely structure and attached a toilet seat and lid. It also came complete with a toilet paper dispenser and hooks to attach a plastic grocery bag under the seat for easy disposal! Luckily Chris didn't try his gift out for our viewing pleasure. These gifts would be payback for the lovely plaque that Chris and Kurt gifted Justin last year...Justin's first bucks antlers that were just little bumps and of course the deers manly parts all displayed on one lovely board. What will Chris and Kurt do next year to top Justin's gifts this year?
Dear Brody was wore out come Sunday morning. He slept until 8:00 and probably would have slept longer, but I had to get he and his father moving if we were going to make it to church in time to greet. After some fabulous waffles from my new waffle maker my dear hubby remembered to buy me for Christmas, we were off for the day. Brody was rotten in church...it took the whole pew to keep him somewhat entertained for 75 minutes! Thankfully he napped for 30 minutes after church so he was ready for the Jones' Christmas. Dear Mama Merna makes fabulous spaghetti every year. It's delectable right down to her yummy homemade meatballs. After we were all delightfully stuffed and we had watched the Jones' boys try to conquer Super Mario Bros. on the Wii, another round of gift opening took place. Brody actually slept through the gifts though, so Kurt and I got to sit back and enjoy. The Jones' were again way to generous to our family. Thanks for including us!
Each day, we carried our gifts in and stacked them on the dining room table. It seemed like as good of place as any. By Sunday afternoon, the table wasn't recognizable! Kurt and I quickly rememdied that though. I was starting to get an itch everytime we walked by it, so I knew I would sleep better if I made some attempt to put it all in it's rightful new homes. We still have some organizing to do, but everything is seeming to fit right in. We did put some of his toys up for a bit because between birthday and Christmas there were so many. In a few weeks we will dig them out and have another round of new stuff to play with!
Well, that's that. Now I must work on some video to post...
