Christmas 2012

It was a wonderful Christmas this year! Aunt Gina took the train from New York City on Friday evening to join in the festivities. This year we decided to do our big meal on Christmas Eve, thus leaving Christmas Day free for lounging, playing (with new toys and the Wii!) and eating delicious leftovers. So, on Christmas Eve Henry helped Mike make our Christmas meal:

Then, we baked and decorated more cookies for Santa:

Here is our plate of embarrassing cookies (embarrassing in that only one was made by a 4 year old. I won't say which. Note poor, broken Tiny Tim with his toothpick crutch)

We opened our traditional Christmas Eve pajamas:

Which he then insisted on wearing to dinner:

We put out cookies and milk for Santa:

And headed to bed.

For the last month Henry has been requesting that Santa bring him "a recycling truck with a side mechanical arm and more cars from the movie Cars (of which he already has many)". Santa did not disappoint (and even threw in a marble run!):

Christmas morning arrived:

Henry was amazingly patient and waited in his room until his clock said 7 (his usual rule), then came out to discover his Santa gifts:

We moved on to stockings:

Before taking a break for breakfast. After we ate, we moved on to the gifts:

Most of the morning was spent playing with his many new toys:

Helping Mike with his new SodaStream:

And much relaxing and MarioKart playing.

We were sad to see Aunt Gina off this morning, but Henry is off from school this week and we have some fun things planned for the last week of 2011 to fill our time. Happy Holidays everyone!!!