Monday, January 5, 2009

Christmas Morning

So, here we are, Christmas morning. The big question is... what time is it? Spencer was the first kid awake for the first time EVER! Usually it is Melissa. She can't go to sleep the night before and then she is up at like 6. But this year, Spencer woke up around 7 followed by Jayden and then Melissa at 7:30. Daddy made them wait until 8! That's when we {read Steve} finally let Jayden go wake up Jenna. Jayden couldn't quite believe how many presents there were. He just had a birthday, so he knew exactly what all that meant. So, what did our kids get for Christmas? Clothes...
Clothes... And more clothes. Spencer was starting to get kind of bugged everytime he opened something and there was more clothes. Melissa though, said, "But Spencer, we need them really badly..." See, that's a girl for you. She never thinks she has ANYTHING to wear in the morning. Except this morning (It's the first day back at school) she couldn't decide what to wear.

After opening some clothes, we let the kids open their toys. Here is some video of that...


Jenna got some Littlest Pet Shop stuff.

Jayden got a "Handy Manny" tool set. Here he is later trying to open his Christmas Orange with the saw.

Spencer got an erector set. He wasn't all that excited at first because he didn't know what it was, but the ENTIRE week after Christmas he was up at the crack of dawn wanting to play with it.

The highlight of the day (for Melissa) was a new digital camera. She has been asking and asking for one, and we kept telling her they are just too much money, but then she would say, "Well, I thought the Nintendo DS last year was a long shot, but I got that." So, this was the last present of the day.

The reaction is priceless. You wish you could get this reaction from EVERY present, but I'll settle for one.

3 comments:

Heather - said...

That's awesome. It looks like you all had a great Christmas morning. Steve sounds like my dad. He would make us wait until he was up and SHOWERED and ready for the day before we were allowed to open presents.

Sher said...

Fun pictures! I still need to get around to posting about our Christmas.

Lhone said...

I like how Melissa painstakingly took every single tissue paper out of the box, rather than lay into the box. Now she'll except huge presents every year!