Playdate with Jackson

Deana was asked to babysit Jackson today, so she invited us over to let the boys play. Once Brayden found this electric 4-wheeler, he didn't pay attention to anything else, especially Jackson.

Ozur Christmas Party

Jill invited us over to her house this year for a Christmas party. We has a great time socializing and exchanging gifts. I love having Christmas parties after Christmas. It helps the season linger a little longer.

Final Stop: The Matiyasic's

Our last stop of the day was over at the Matiyasic's. Deana said that she had something for Brayden and she wanted him to open it on Christmas Day.

The main part of the gift was the book "The Mitten". (I know, another book) It is written by one of my favorite children's authors and the pictures are amazing. There are so many cute details.

We closed out the day by playing games with the Matiyasic family. It was the perfect day. And for the last time this year, Merry Christmas!

Christmas at Nana and Papa's

Nana isn't a fan of opening presents before Christmas, so we got to take an extra trip over there today. It was great to see family on such a great day!

Nana and Papa got Brayden some adorable clothes and more books. Story time got a lot more varied today. Yay!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Morning

Christmas is definitely my season! I love everything about it, except for the shopping. It's stressful and distracting. So this year we got it done really early. This is what our tree looked like by the 9th of December.

But even though I hate shopping, I love watching my family unwrap their gifts. We waited for Brayden to wake up this year before we started.

Craig and I took turns helping Brayden open his presents. He did a lot better than last year, but we still have a way to go until he can open them by himself.

He did seem to enjoy the end result though. This year, we were kind of boring and bought him a lot of books, but I couldn't help throwing in a Disney movie or two.

Craig didn't miss out on this opportunity to spoil me. I got all kinds of neat things. He is so creative when it comes to buying presents.

I did my best to be creative, but I tend to go with the obvious. He kept breaking our plastic dart, so I bought him metal darts. Seemed logical to me.

This was one of our favorite books growing up and it is such a cute story. We were really excited to give this one to him. I can't wait to read it to him tonight.

While we were opening our presents, I had our traditional breakfast cooking in the oven. It's this delicious breakfast casserole that you make the day before, so Christmas morning is really easy. I've wondered what our other Christmas traditions will be, but this is definitely one of them.

Now that we are dressed and ready, it's off to Nana's to open more presents!

New Words

Here we are showing off Brayden's new favorite words. Enjoy!

Bathtub Gibberish

Brayden is so close to really talking, so I knew I had to record this gibberish before it is gone for good.

It's not the best example, but it's all I could get. When he knows I'm recording him he gets distracted.