Christmas 2012

We had a fun Christmas this year. We weren't able to make it to see any family, but we enjoyed the season just being with our little family. We started some new traditions that we hope will last through the years and we think it is so fun to have a little kid around for Christmas.

Adrian made a great Mexican Christmas Eve dinner of Pozole and flan. We've decided to have our Christmas feast be Mexican food every year :)

On Christmas Eve we practiced opening gifts by giving Levi some new pj pants to open. It seemed on Christmas morning he knew just what to do with the gifts under the tree. After he tore a hole in the first gift it seemed he had no interest in the gifts anymore. Adrian and I basically opened his gifts for him.

Adrian really likes his new jacket.

A love note to me!!!

We decided we had to get Levi excited somehow for his gifts so we opened the biggest gift first.

He got a new bike!!!! He's able to scoot around on it all by himself. And, after a few falls, he's mastered dismounting.

After every gift Levi opened, he had to play with it for about 15 minutes. Then we could move on and open the next one. It took us clear up until his noon nap to open all his gifts.

Bubbles were a hit and we finally had to tell him they were all gone so he could be done playing with them.

Adrian taught Levi to "roar" like a dinosaur, so I thought he needed a dinosaur to play with.

Adrian gave me monster socks and some candy coal in my stocking. I must have not been nice this year :) He says it's just a joke.

We had to read his new books over and over.

New farm magnets to play with!!

And this is the very last present to be opened. Levi knew just what to do and was able to rip all the paper off. (maybe he was just so excited because it was a train set).

"Cheese"!!

I made him a magnetic chalkboard from an oil drip pan. He loved it. It was way messier than I anticipated and we finally just took his clothes off because he was getting chalk all over them. Levi had an early bath after.

We then watched movies the rest of the day and attempted to get some fries from somewhere just to get out of the house. The fries didn't work out because the only place in town open was Walgreens.

I'm kind of sad the Christmas season is over, but now I get to look forward to a new babe in March and moving back to UT next summer!