Christmas Eve 2009

*UPS went above and beyond this year.

Last year the kids opened their christmas gifts all at one time. We came to find out that it is slightly over-whelming to toddlers when they open multiple presents at once. So this year, they opened some on thursday (our trip to Grandma and Grandpa Velicer's was canceled due to icy roads) and on friday morning and friday evening. It seemed to work out much better. The gifts included:
a Drum for each of them, a wooden kitchen, wooden cookies for pretend baking, pretend pots/pans (one set is wood and one set works perfect for playdough), 'click' cars (automoblox), mini horse figurines, books, potato head accessories, hopscotch, racing motorcycles, teething toys for Aaron, a gear toy for Aaron (which N&C love), board games (hi ho cheerio & cooties), savings bonds, pajamas and towels. . . and i think i'm probably forgetting something. Wow! That's a lot, but they really love it all. Really perfect gifts for them. Grandma and Grandpa Velicer gave us money to buy them something they would like and we may use that to buy more swim lessons or something at the YMCA. They love that sort of thing too. And swimming is a great skill to learn of course.

Thursday gift opening:

"What did you get?"

"What did YOU get?"

Aaron & I. . .
Nicholas says "that doesn't look like you, Mommy" But I assure you, it is me.

Aaron with Grandma Maus

Doing Hopscotch


This is what happens if you fall asleep. N&C's first Christmas Eve joke on Daddy.


My brother Matthew arrived from New Mexico Christmas Eve and then we had lasagna for dinner and played Wii at our house a bit after dinner when the kids were in bed.