Christmas Day

We were pretty sure that on Christmas morning Tyler was going to wake up at the crack of dawn so Mike woke up at 5:45 to make the coffee, shower and get the video camera operating. Mike is not much of a morning person so the shower and coffee were the critical components. However , as usual, it is fruitless to try to predict what your kids are going to do. Tyler complete forgot Santa was coming and ended up sleeping until 7:30 am and Mike had to remind him to go check under the tree but from that moment on Tyler was just in toy heaven. By far, his favorite gift was a Geotrax train system designed especially for the two-year old set so it is easy to put together and the train has a remote control. This was the gift Mike picked out because "he knows what kind of toys boys like" but I think this might have really been the gift Mike wanted when he was two because he went out the day after Christmas and added on to the set below and we now have a train set that takes up an entire room and I don't even imagine what it is going to look like by the time we return from Phoenix.

Mia is a little young to care much about Christmas and she was exhausted from the past two days so it was 3 in the afternoon before she got around to opening her gifts. I should say, Tyler opened her gifts and she sat on Daddy's lap watching intently. She is fascinated with the Sing Along Stage and the flashing lights. She also got a Hello Kitty Boombox and Mike said it was truly the moment that it dawned him that he has a little girl. Doesn't get much girlier than Hello Kitty does it?

This a picture of the cinnamon roll explosion. It was supposed to be our special Christmas breakfast but when Mike came downstairs in the morning it has exploded all over the kitchen island. Thank goodness Mike's mom had given us the world's best chocolate coffee cake on Christmas Eve.

We were supposed to go to Mike's sister's house for a Christmas Day pajama party but Tyler really wanted to play with his toys so that is what we did. It was a wonderful wonderful Christmas Day.