Santa Claus Came to Town!

Christmas 2010

Shelby was up at 5:30 this morning all excited for Christmas. I was able to stifle my excitement a little longer and sleep until about 6:45. Colin, however, was zonked out and didn't wake up until just after 8! We ran upstairs to get him and tell him Santa had come and there were toys all over the place downstairs. We ran downstairs a little ahead of Colin so we could see his face when he came into the living room. We waited, and waited, and coaxed, and waited! LOL Colin came downstairs and then got distracted by the sleds sitting at the bottom of the staircase and wanted to play with those instead. We finally got him to run into the living room and he looked totally confused and surprised to see all the goodies under the tree.

He headed to the tool bench from Santa first thing and then went over to jump on the trampoline Santa also brought. Then he noticed the presents and started digging in! It was tough getting each gift away from him without taking it out of the packaging and letting him play with it. He wanted everything opened and out of the box, but we knew he would stop opening presents if we started letting him play with stuff. He did pretty well with setting all the new toys aside until we got to a box full of cars and a horse trailer with a horse inside from my parents. He was very excited about the horse and trailer and he wanted it open, NOW! When we told him to wait he took it over to the tool bench and proceeded to attempt to saw it open with his saw. When that didn't work he tried the drill, and lastly he gave the pliers a try. We got the horse trailer away from him and then he went to open another present with the pliers and we had to take them away. That caused quite a fit, lol, but thankfully it was short lived with all the other toys still under the tree. He racked up all kinds of goodies and played all morning with Daddy. I snuck off to the kitchen to make a few things for dinner tonight.

After digging out my car and shoveling the sidewalk we bundled up to head to the sledding hill in the village. Colin got a new wooden sled for Christmas too, but he got it early since we went to Garmisch last week and knew we'd need it there. We got about 5-6" of snow yesterday afternoon/last night, so it was beautiful and there was a nice layer of snow up on the hill. We played in the snow for a while before coming back to the house for some lunch and to warm up. Colin was excited to be back home and to get play with his toys again. We spent the afternoon playing and watching movies with Colin. Colin didn't take a nap, but Daddy did and I wished I could have! Instead I took advantage of a tired baby on the couch to spend a few minutes blogging. We have a turkey on the smoker and all kinds of yummies for dinner, can't wait! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! Frohe Weihnachten!