Tyler woke up around 7:00 and went to the living room. My mom, due to her knee, has been sleeping in the living room on the couch and my dad had joined her shortly before Tyler's waking. Tyler ran out and announced "Merry Christmas" before even looking at the tree. As soon as he did (as my mom reports) he yelled "oh, he came. Santa Claus came".
He tore into his stocking first and was quite impressed, although we did have to TRY to get him to slow down. He was barely looking at anything, just pulling it out as fast as he could to get to the next thing. Next came the gifts under the tree. He loved opening stuff, and loved helping others open their gifts almost as much.
I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but Tyler's Christmas wish list originally included only Pixos and a scale...yes, you read that right. My grandparents got him BOTH of the things on his list, leaving Santa nothing to get him that he really wanted. Eventually he added the desire to have "a heffalump" (from the Winnie the Pooh Heffalump movie) and a bottle of glue (we ran out at home a couple of weeks ago and I had been forgetting to buy more). After opening each of these gifts he announced "it's just what I wanted". Wouldn't it be great if you could always make them that happy so simply. He's an easy boy to please! However he did enjoy some other gifts he got from Santa, including a NASA space shuttle with alien UFO, "comfy pajamas" and of course candy in his stocking.
Later on he helped Jason open gifts and then his gift supply more than doubled when my parents gave him their gifts. Too many to mention, but highlights included an itsy bitsy spider game, lots of disney-themed items, and those lined Crocs. He also got one of those air hog remote helicopters from my brother Jim and a savings bond from my brother Chris (in addition to the art supplies he got the night prior).
The morning was complete with a visit from my grandparents for our annual Christmas breakfast. We all stayed in our PJs all morning and played with the new stuff. The rest of the day will be in a later blog post. For now, here are some photo highlights of our morning.
The tree with all the loot.
Tyler enjoys some presents.
And some more presents.
Jason gets up close and personal with a stuffed Tigger present.
Al apparently received a text message from Santa with a photo the few gifts that were left in Florida. Santa was pretty smart to realize that it would be hard for us to bring an exersaucer and a basketball over-the-door hoop on the plane. Tyler was pretty surprised that Santa knew how to text!
Tyler enjoying some presents.
Jason opens a present.
My mom-mom with her newest great-grandson on his 3-month-birthday (Jason's "birthday" not to be confused by Jesus' birthday...Tyler finds the names similar).
I tried to get a cute picture of both boys in their Christmas PJs. Unsuccessful.
My mom with both of her little grandsons.
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