Christmas with the Family

This year, we celebrated Christmas the day after because the Duttons flew in from Colorado. They are Collin's uncle Robin and Aunt Nancy and who we visited this past summer. Collin heard that there was going to be a party tonight and he was really excited to know that people where coming over. He wore himself out playing with some of his new toys that he too over a 3 hour nap this afternoon. I thought it was great because I was able to cook all of the desserts, get the appetizers ready and clean the house before company arrived. Once family arrived, the quite house was full of conversation. Collin did get overwhelmed by all of the people. Luckily, daddy arrived just in time to take care of him and and give him some attention.

Here are Collin, Mimi, Aunt Nancy and Timmy. Timmy is now 8 weeks old and getting bigger every day.

After dinner, we started to open presents because Collin was getting tired. I wanted him to open his presents in front of the people that got them for his so they could see his excitement. He opened the first present and began to play with it for several minutes forgetting that he had other presents. After about 10 minutes, we had to move it so he would open the other presents. He was not too happy about this until he opened the next gift. One of his favorite presents was this one from Aunt Lisa and Uncle Paul. I really liked putting the colored balls into the holes. This came with a hammer that I thought Collin would be more interested but I was wrong. His other favorite was a jack-in-the-box from us. Daddy picked it out and did a great job. He was not sure what to think of it at first but then laughed hard every time the guy popped out of the box at the end of the song. Here is a short video of it. Sorry I turned the knob so fast. I could not wait to hear him laugh again.

Here is Aunt Lisa and Timmy. He was enjoying looking in the mirror. This is in the stairwell between the 2nd and 3rd floor. I used to do this with Collin when he was this age. As he got older, he would expect that we would stop and look in the mirror. He crawls down the stairs now, so we do not do this anymore.