Christmas!

I was so excited for Christmas this year, I had such a hard time sleeping. I woke up soooo many times in the night and was constantly disappointed when only a half hour or hour had passed. My sister Michelle did a lot of cleaning back in September or October and saved a couple boxes of goodies for us. I didn't have to worry about finding anything for stockings and many of their gifts were the result of her generosity!

Tucker was the first one awake a little after 7. I was so glad to get things going! His stocking was stuffed with matchbox and hotwheels cars and books

Hunter woke up second. He had some cars but mostly play-doh tools and books

Gunnar and Brylee woke up about the same time. Gunnar got play-doh tools a couple of cars and books too

Brylee got some play-doh tools and shoelaces that lace through pictures and beads and books

Gunnar quickly understood how to open presents :)

Brylee with her stash. Thanks to her birthday practice a couple days earlier she was a lot faster at opening presents on Christmas morning.

Hunter was excited to open this big present. It is a small box of Legos in a large box with packing air bags from Amazon. Upon opening the box and seeing the air bags, Hunter began freaking out that someone was going to take the bags. He started reaching for them calling out: "Mine! Mine! Mine!" It took a minute for him to calm down and understand that the "real" present was the Legos and not the packing material. It was a moment I was sad to have missed on video.

Bryant didn't think he was getting anything for Christmas and was presently surprised when he had 4 gifts to open, not to mention the one that just arrived and I am using to make this blog post :)

After opening the backpack, Brylee tried to give it to Tucker because he is the one in school and uses a backpack. She was super excited once she understood that it was for her.

Gunnar loves his Legos. We are now the owners of Mega Blocks, Duplo, and Legos. I never thought I would have all three but Gunnar truly loves these, Maybe I will get rid of the Mega Blocks...

Brylee loved playing with her princess castle that we scored at a yard sale earlier this year with Gunnar's legos

Here are the kids playing with all the new play-doh toys. We now have to keep all the toys in a box and the play-doh in another container because we have so many toys! No more waiting for a turn with the rolling pins or extruders!

One of Bryant's gifts was wax paper. It may not seem exciting but now he is able to glue the parts of his rubber band airplane together!

This is the Lego airplane Hunter got in the box of packing material. He is so funny. Gunnar still loves to get up at the table and stand on chairs and climb on the table. But at least he looks cute most of the time