Christmas Day

Christmas morning Cole woke up rather early, so he joined us in bed since we couldn't bring him downstairs. Caden woke up around 7:15. Caden knew Santa had come when he found his ornament hanging on his door. This year he got a John Deere Tractor ornament and Cole got a little kid on a sled, since it's the first year he has truly gone sledding.
I ran ahead of the kids to video them seeing the tree first thing. Caden didn't even look twice he just went to the couch and said "cheese". Apparently I have been making him pose for too many pictures these last few days! Cole immediately ran to the tree, grabbed "Rody" by the ear, drug him to the middle of the room and hopped on. Caden joined him for a picture. (we learned of Rody because 2 of their cousins have one, and anytime we are over either house it is their favorite toy!) Caden had a hippity-hop waiting for him, although he was a bit more excited for the Rody.. it actually became a trend throughout all of our Christmas' that he liked Cole's presents more than his own!
After the bouncer excitement we opened stockings while breakfast was cooking (cinnamon rolls). Caden's favorite was probably the etch-a-sketch and Cole's the sesame street remote, although he put it up to his ear like a phone... two of his favorite things are the real remotes and the real phone.. so we were hoping to distract him, unfortunately "he ain't no dummy"!

After breakfast we opened presents. We had a lot to open since not only did we have our own and Santa's but the Rogers' family presents which were shipped, as well as a Rogers' Extended family Secret Santa. Cole tired of opening quickly, but Caden was the 'mad un-wrapper' faster than lightening and then asking what else he could unwrap. Apparently Cole was overwhelmed since he kept going upstairs and getting old toys to bring downstairs. Perhaps he doesn't like change?! Caden was more than happy to help unwrap his presents for him, and ours.

At one point I looked over and Cole had climbed up onto the coffee table and was looking out the window, for what we will never know, but he was adamant about it!

While I was putting together a tool bench Cole had received he decided to perch himself on top of it! That put a small delay in the construction, but we were almost done.

Cole models his new shirt, and wears it the rest of the day.. size sticker and all!

Christmas Rule #2 in the Rogers' Family Handbook is that we don't leave the house on Christmas Day and we can stay in PJ's all day if we'd like. As has become tradition, in the afternoon my Mom and Tony came over to see the kids loot and have Christmas Dinner with us, Chicken cordon bleu my personal favorite! After dinner we played with the new stuff Caden and Cole examined Grammy with Cole's new Dr's kit... here you can see that Caden got to Grammy first with the mirror, and the closest tool Cole could find to copy was the syringe! Perhaps Cole was really playing dentist with novocaine!

We all had a fabulous Christmas, it was especially fun to see the kids enjoy Christmas... that is what makes it even better for us parents!