Christmas Day...

After opening the goodies Santa left at our house, we packed the sleigh, I mean car, and headed over to Grammie & Grampie's house. We were going to open presents and then go to Gary & Sharon's for Christmas dinner.

Alexander wanted to stay in his Christmas jammies, so we thought it was only appropriate so he could open more presents. And more presents there were...Santa must have had an extra bag of goodies for Alexander that he forgot, so instead he left them at Grammie & Grampie's. Again, Alexander took his particular time opening presents. Every piece of paper had its place. He got some great stuff - a lawnmower like Daddy's, a talking Elmo, a barrel of monkeys, and I think his favorite gift - an Elmo couch that turns into a small bed. After that, we got dressed in our Christmas outfit and headed to Gary & Sharon's. This was going to be a low-key afternoon. Besides the dog-situation, it was a nice afternoon. We had dinner, Alexander napped, then he woke up in time to eat before presents. The kids opened their gifts, Alexander got a set of Tonka Trucks from Gary & Sharon, then we had some dessert before it was time to head home.

We were staying the night over Grammie & Grampie's because we had plans to go to Edaville Railroad the next day which is near their house...makes no sense to go home and come back. So Alexander went to bed around 9pm and slept in Grammie & Grampie's room all night. He woke around 6:30am, but laid down with Grammie and fell back to sleep til a bit before 8am!

Wish that would happen on the weekends at home... but overall, it was a very nice Christmas.