Little Life Experiences: Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year- aside from the fact that Parker didn't go to sleep until somewhere around 3:30-4am on Christmas morning, and then we woke up at 6 to open presents... That part was quite delightful... We stayed overnight at Joe's parents house along with most of his brothers and sisters and their families. There were 2 grandkids including Parker. After the presents were opened there, we went over to my family's house to open presents there, we then went back to Joe's family's for lunch and at that point Parker (surprise) and Joe (surprise) and myself (surprise) were feeling super tired so we went back up to my family's house where I figured, if at the very least Parker didn't fall asleep, Joe and I could and have others to watch Parker. Well, Parker fell asleep on the way there (about a 10 minute drive) and so he and Joe crashed in my sisters room and I hung out with my family. We had a lot of fun and eventually came home where we all went to sleep around 9:30 and Parker slept in til 8:30 (I think he was secretly trying to make up for the other night...) Anyway, we loved spending the time with our families, got some fantastic gifts, Parker probably too many : ) (Joe got him about 300 matchbox cars, and up to that point, that was the ONLY gift Parker was excited about- Thanks Joe! You saved the morning :)

Parker's face as he sees the cars.

Showing me one of the cars. Sorry for the blurry hand, and the snotty nose- it was the best we could do early in the morning.

Looking at all of his cars.

With Grandma at my mom's house- He was her little shadow while opening presents there.

Action shot- opening the presents.

He got some dinosaurs and he was so gentle with them. LOVE this shot!

A smile as big as he could muster that morning.

Same here, looking at another one of his dinosaurs. He would after opening each present say "Daddy Open? "

Another one of the presents which he got from my grandma is one of the little fur real puppies and he is just so gentle with that little puppy. He shows it things, and tells him the name of things. SO CUTE!