Christmas Day - 2010

Merry Christmas!

 

Did Santa come to the Santoki house? Why, yes he did! Santa came and delivered – big time.

Owen woke up his usual way – asking to go immediately downstairs and check the advent calendar to see if the Big Man came during the night. This time, mom carried him downstairs where Dad and Nana were waiting (Dad with the video camera rolling.)

The first stop were the stockings that Santa had filled with care. Did I mention that Owen thinks Santa is basically the Candy Man? So, he was a little confused when he saw these big socks filled with whoknowswhat. It was interesting to him, but still a little confusing and definitely NOT the chocolate he was after. So he directed me to take him into the kitchen to get the calendar.

 

On the way to the kitchen, the living room came into view and Owen’s eyes got VERY wide. “A ding ding and a Thomas!” was the first comment out of his mouth when he saw the pile of presents. Calendar forgotten – time to play with these awesome new toys. Owen loved everything he received…but I think these were his favorites:

• Garbage cans, trains and a lollipop in his stocking (Santa)
• A ride on motorized Thomas The Train (Nana)
• A Bubba sized “ding ding” that actually lights up and the gate moves up and down (Santa)
• A big boy tool set complete with power drill and saw (Santa)
• A Thomas The Train Movie (Uncle Michael and Aunt Kelly)
• A special Bubba chair (Santa)

The differences between this year and last year was that Owen was definitely more excited to open his gifts. The cutest part was hearing his little gasps when the present came into view “oooooohhhhhhhhh!” A similarity between this year and last year was it was still hard to get him to stay interested in all the gifts and I ended up opening the last few for him. But, it’s probably a time that we will miss when he becomes old enough to tear into all his gifts and open them in record time while simultaneously showing his appreciation or disapproval of each. Right now he approves of ALL gifts and wants to give each one equal attention.

 

The rest of the day was spent eating Christmas Eggs, playing with all our new toys (Mom and Dad got wine and a Panini (or Panino as the case may be) maker which we are so excited to put to use at the same time), video chatting with Uncle Michael, Aunt Kelly and Cousin Audrey, taking naps (everyone took one) and eating gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches.

 

Steve and I agreed, this was the best Christmas yet.