He wasn't sleepy at all and the 1st thing he said when he got out of bed was - Did Santa Come? YIPPEE!! First time EVER that he woke up knowing it was Christmas and that there was something special to do! I told him I wasn't sure, we should go look. Instead of his normal morning routine, he actually DID go down stairs to look to see if Santa came. He got 1/2 way down the stairs and saw his big wish sitting on the coffee table - Hungry Hippo game. He stopped on the stairs and giggled and peeked at it until I finally convinced him to go all the way to the stockings.
He went straight to the stockings, but I managed to get him to leave those and look at the unwrapped and ready to play with game....which we did. Then I asked him if we should look to see if Santa left a note - which he did - and he ate the cookies and drank the milk. I got him to read the note from Santa. I noticed that it was the exact same writing we had on our Christmas morning Santa letters - he MUST be real!
At this point, GJA came down stairs with a camera and Lee came up from the basement and we all played some Hungry Hippos and got ready to open stocking gifts. Kiddo was super excited with pretty much each item he opened - Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph books, etc. At the toe of the stocking, like last year, was his favourite treat - red lollipops...which he kept in the stocking for safe keeping.
He wanted SO BADLY to go and unwrap the other gifts, but I told him that we wanted to eat breakfast and that we all had to be dressed before we open those gifts. Before we were sitting down for our panettone & coffee, he had arrived down to show us that he was dressed and ready to unwrap! LOL - the first time EVER that he had dressed himself! HA HA - too bad the motivator is 1 day a year!
Finally everyone was fed and dressed and we went to open gifts. He pulled out 2 gifts from under the tree and they were both to ME from HIM so he decided that since his name was on it, that he could open it...NOT! He did a great job pulling out parcels, reading the names and giving to the appropriate person. (YAY - one less job for me) He was really excited about each of his presents - and you could tel because he'd open just 1 end and then go OOOOH and hid it behind him and asking us all to shut our eyes so he could open it all up and then show us the entire gift at once (lol).
It was SO GREAT that he was excited about the day - maybe he WILL have fond memories of Christmas, just like I did!
My parents came just as we were finishing our own gift opening - so then we re-loaded up the tree with their gifts and went at it again! We ooh'd and aah'd at everyone's gifts and then went and made fuzzy navels and started getting ready for lunch. After lunch was eaten, it was time for my parents to leave to get the turkey in the oven. Before dinner, 2 of the people in our house went for a 2 hr nap & during this time I tried to assemble one of his gifts (and I didn't do a great job) while the kiddo kept asking if I was done.
Then, assemble all the sleepy people and head on over to my parent's place. Everyone cooperated for photos with silly Christmas Cracker crowns on and the kiddo even stayed sitting for the entire meal! Had a lovely turkey dinner with all the trimmings, sat and chatted for awhile, then off home to put them all to bed.
It was a fantastic day as far as I was concerned - because my boy FINALLY enjoyed and participated in the day!
Merry Christmas to ME!
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