Ah, yet another great holiday! Growing up as a kid, I've always enjoyed the holiday season. I couldn't imagine loving this holiday even more until Matthew came along. Last year he was of course too young to care about presents and therefore barely touched any. This year, he's still too young to understand but he's more interested...in the wrapping paper that is! He could careless what's inside! It's the outside that matters to him! He enjoys ripping the wrapping paper as he's been practicing tearing up tissue paper all over the place. The up side, I guess would be that he's building on his fine motor skills! Oh the mess!
This Christmas is by far the best! I used to fill the space under the tree with all the presents I secretly bought for myself. This year was totally different. I even forgot to get myself a "just in case I don't like any of my gifts" gift. Instead, I had only filled it with all these goodies that I found online for Matthew. After all, it's ALL ABOUT HIM NOW!
Matthew was great with the Christmas tree. At first, he barely paid any attention to this "thing" in the living room. As the weeks went on (we put up our tree right after Remembrance Day every year) he started to explore. At first he would poke at the branches, then worked up the courage to grab things from the tree. James was smart and decided to only hang up our homemade decorations made from felt...or was he just being lazy?!?! Matthew really enjoys the Christmas lights on trees and have managed not to tear the tree apart or any other tree that he sees!
I just realized that we hadn't taken many pictures of the holidays :( But here's a couple of the kiddies at our annual Christmas dinner at Allan's.
Merry Christmas to all! Love us!
