Christmas Morning Pics

This is my smuggest "I get to hand out the presents" face. I don't know why I want that job more than all others, maybe its my impatient and diligent (ha!) nature. I just don't like waiting around for presents, I'd rather be in charge of the situation - calling the shots so to speak... Notice I wore camouflage to better protect my position. It made it easy for me to sidle up to the tree before anyone knew I was coming...




Evan and Grandma Terry. When he found the car in his hand at the top of his stocking he lost all interest in digging deeper. I had to empty his stocking for him. I also had to do a lot of his unwrapping for him, every time he spotted a bright color under the paper though, he'd start pulling the wrapping off himself.








Evan loves all noise makers, from the silliest songs on his battery-powered toys to his new drums, tambourine, keyboard, guitar, shakers, bells and whistles (really, I've actually not listed a few baby "instruments). He played drums on his new rocking horse, presents, the tambourine, anyone's head that got in the way, etc...






One of the few non-Evan shots. That's my dad and my sister Som in the foreground, I'm in the background lording it over my present distribution territory. I really am a little crazy I think. My teacher in grade three called it "leadership quality" my family just calls it "bossy" bordering on "control freak". I don't think I've had a happier Christmas...
Evan really getting into the beat. Almost every beat session is accompanied by "Twinkum, twinkum lar lar war" and so on. It's his favourite song right now and always ends with a cheer and hand clapping. He understands beats, even gets the syllables right, still needs to tweak the words a little. He's really good with spoken words, I think singing is a little muddled to him.

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

We had a great Christmas! My mom and dad were in Canada to celebrate Christmas with us for the first time in over ten years (in other words - since I was in high school, man I'm old...) It was so great having them and a few sisters from Thailand kicking around. (Plus Chris, the Irwins, and some of our Lewis side of the family.)
We had a great Christmas Eve - Scott did a beautiful service. (A big hi-light for me was the musical performance by the Bartlett family.) Scott's message got a lot of laughs and we had a lot of visitors new to the Gate there. We enjoyed a nice Asian appetizer buffet after and chatted with Becky and Matt (it was Christmas morning for them) for a bit. They are doing well - check out their blog, the link is to the right there under "Family Links".
We opened gifts with everyone at mom and dad's house on Christmas morning, popped over to see the Irwin grandparents and aunties and then headed back to visit with Grandma Lewis (in Evan's case, great-grandma Lewis) and so on. It was a full day, and Evan didn't open his presents from us until Boxing Day... (we'd gotten up later than we planned so we had to rush away Christmas morning.) I got a Nintendo DS from Scott for Christmas and a few games from him and Chris... I think they're trying to convert me to "gamer" person... so I'll bug them less or something... (I love it btw!)
I had to take the week before off Christmas as my co-worker had first choice this year and Scott didn't have any time off so Evan and I got to spend a lot of QT together. It was loads of fun! Evan seemed to enjoy having me to himself everyday, mixed in with visiting, candy making and present wrapping.
Today I went right back to work, worked like crazy to catch up from the previous week's holiday, and things are going to get back to normal now I guess. All in all Evan really seemed to enjoy this Christmas and has a nice new number of toys spread between our house and Grandma Purvis' (he spends his days there while I'm working so it's only fair...) The look on his face when he explored all his new presents was definitely in the priceless category.
To all our friends and family, we hope that your Christmas was full of family and fun and wish you a great new year! We love you and are so thankful to have so many wonderful people in our lives. We hope you forgive the lack of Christmas cards this year - we feel bad for the trees. (Christmas must be tough on them - Christmas trees, cards, wrapping paper, boxes, fireplaces blazing, etc...) Thank you all so much for the cards, presents, phone calls, visits, e-mails, blog posts, and ichats. Best wishes to you all and may the Lord of the season (and the universe) give you grace and peace. xoxoxoxoxoxo
Please see our pics below.

Scott and I "cheating" opening a gift on Christmas Eve

holiday with Evan (for me, Scott has no time off for the rest of the year)

bows and balloons - who needs presents?

distracted Evan

serious Evan

smiling Evan

Evan in his new housecoat, stuffing his cheeks with muffins

my popcorn tree

popcorn goodies - evan loved them!

Scotti's festive 'do

chugging down the eggnog

still chugging

blue peepers

The perfect pout

Evan discovers the wonderful world of chocolate, through chocolate spread.










What a gorgeous chocolatey face!










Evan tried a new position for watching tv tonight. It's not as comfortable as sitting, but it's much easier to spring into action if anything exciting happens...