Got up at the regular time and walked around turning on the lights on the tree, mantle etc before getting PJ up.
I noticed that Santa had arrived, as promised!
PJ got up and seemed excited, peeked down the stairs but decided that he wanted to do his morning routine and lay, all covered up and cozy, in front of his morning TV shows. I managed to get him to cooperate for a photo or 2 by the tree before he went back to his routine.
Graeme and I were up already with cameras ready to roll and he was having NONE of it...so we started getting our coffee.
Just as our coffee was ready, he finally came down and read Santa's letter.
Then he was a blur or wrapping paper as he opened his stocking stuffers and we watched. He loved this green thing, it made sounds and he said "I wonder if Uncle Dean will like this?" (another 'warm the heart' moment). He got some red lollipops but the big surprise in the toe this year was a card and coins for his favourite arcade games.
After he finished with his gifts, he started helping Dad with his and once it was all done, we had breakfast, Graeme had a shower and we all got dressed.
Finally at the tree and we opened all our gifts before my parents and brother arrived. PJ never once hid when Uncle Dean arrived. We carried up their gifts and put them under the tree and expected to start opening them but PJ wanted to show his Santa gifts to everyone. My brother stayed upstairs by the tree thinking that PJ wouldn't want him to come down...and to HIS HUGE SURPRISE, PJ said..."where's Uncle Dean, I want to show him my gifts!" (Another 'warm the heart' part of the holidays). My brother was stunned and jumped up and ran downstairs to look at the gifts.
We eventually went upstairs for gift opening and all had a great time looking at everyone's gifts. PJ was a blur of paper but did a great job reading gift tags and handing gifts to recipients, as well as cleaning up wrapping paper for recycling.
Then we had pizza buns for lunch
My family left (Dean & Dad slept while Mom made dinner). We got dressed and went to visit Lee at her new place and gift her our Christmas presents. Afterwards, off to my parent's place for a yummy turkey dinner. PJ chose the seating order again this year...he wanted to sit beside Uncle Dean! <3
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