Christmas all over again!

Merry Christmas (again!)

My child is going to be seriously confused if and when we ever start leading a normal life and stop traveling like nomads. Last year we had two or three different parts to Christmas where we opened gifts. Colin had three birthday's this year due to our month long August vacation, and today we find ourselves celebrating Christmas for a second time this season. We had Christmas on Christmas day and then after vacation we came home to more presents at the post office that arrived while we were gone. Colin has been one lucky (or spoiled, however you want to look at it) little boy this year! When Colin noticed I was bringing gifts into the living room his eyes lit up and of course "these presents are for Colin?!"
First thing he dug into were some race cars from Uncle Ryan. He was thoroughly delighted with more to add to his collection. Then he started opening Auntie Melissa's doctor kit, doctor book and real stethoscope, he immediately brought the syringe over and gave me a shot!

Next he opened a package from Auntie Doo Dah that didn't excite him too much. It was small and he didn't know what it was, so he flung it at Mommy to examine and when I read the label and told him it was a robot bug he couldn't snatch that thing back from my hands fast enough. He was excited to have a robot. He got walkie talkies for Christmas also and the first thing he did when he got a hold of them was ask for "Cookie Robots!" Shelby and I were totally confused until we remembered that in the movie Despicable Me (one of my favorite kid movies, if you have not seen it, you MUST...with or without the kids!) Gru uses what looks like a walkie talkie to request two dozen cookie robots for his next evil plan. How Colin remembered this of all things, I will never know, but for days on end we've been listening to him order cookie robots over those walkie talkies. So to get a real bug robot was pretty darn cool he thought. Then he opened a game from Auntie Doo Dah and a reindeer Webkinz from Cousin Charlotte. Cousin Charlotte also got him some super cool Rudolph slippers, he thought it was hilarious to walk around in them making the nose blink with each step he took. Another big hit was a Toy Story watch from Auntie Doo Dah. Once Colin got the watch on I asked him what time it was, he looked at his watch and said "20 hours until Christian's house!" (Christian is the little boy next door and Colin knew we were going to his house later that night to ring in the New Year. He'd been busting all day waiting for it to be time to go over there.) He was so cute the rest of the night telling us the time and the time was always however many hours to Christian's house. I mentioned to Colin that Christmas was officially over, no more presents would be coming, Santa and Tinsel were back at the North Pole and we'd be putting away our Christmas tree and decorations soon. He was not too thrilled about that idea and told me that we need to leave the tree up a little longer and get it ready for next Christmas. It's going to be a looooong year wait! LOL