Christmas 2008

We celebrated Christmas at our house on December 16, as we were leaving for Utah on the 17th. When Eddie woke up that morning we told him that Santa had come in the night. He refused to leave his room for 15 minutes because he was nervous. Ben eventually got him to come out by telling him Santa had brought candy. Then Eddie ran to the living room. He spent quite awhile just eating candy. That night when I asked him his favorite part of Christmas, he said, "maybe the candy". He still talks about Santa coming to bring us candy.

Eddie's biggest reaction, an excited squeal, was for this dinosaur he found in his stocking.

Eddie loved all of his presents. Mom and Dad thought it was pretty cool that Santa brought him a toy with his name on the packaging ("Eddie and his Boulder Worksite"). Now Eddie loves playing with the two Little People that came with this toy, Eddie and Kevin (Mom made up Kevin's name, though she tried to change it to Peter a second after she said Kevin. It didn't stick, though.)
Peter was interested in the tags on the gifts. He was semi-interested in wrapping paper, but he didn't really do any unwrapping of his own.

He was most interested in random things on the floor, like water bottles.

Peter loved oranges!

Peter did love to kiss the gloworm he received.

We had a really merry Christmas, complete with a McDonald's breakfast and a Chick-fil-a dinner. Afterall we were packing to go out of town, too!