Party, Party, Party!

It was a weekend of festivity! On Saturday we hosted our annual multi-faith holiday party. Earlier, Henry prepped by trimming the tree (put upstairs this year to keep out of the grasping hands of crazy 8 month olds...):

(his hair is also very festive, isn't it??)

At the party we had our traditional activties...cookie decorating:

(Henry has not shrunk - he was just in a little chair)

We lit the candles:

And had some serious dreidel playing:

There was lots of eating and general hanging out:

Then things got serious with some gift exchanging:

The kids draw names for the gift exchange each year. Henry had Jake's name this year and we had purchased Jake a small Lego Star Wars set. Henry helped me pick it out and knew he would like it, but Henry also REALLY wanted one. He wasn't greedy about it, just didn't let me wrap it for a long time, would carry it around and stare at it, etc.

Here is Henry opening his gift and discovering that Liam had gotten him the SAME THING. Excitement was an understatement.

And not a great picture, but here they are, both holding their Lego sets aloft and screaming "WE GOT THE SAME THING!!!!" while the adults laugh:

The adults do a Yankee Swap each year, and we always get some interesting gifts. Like these super creepy royal masks, as modeled by Alan and Meredith:

The partying didn't end there...Sunday we went to a birthday party for Henry's friend Jonas. A bowling party! Henry had some serious moves:

Happy birthday to Jonas, and cheers to a great weekend!