Christmas Day

looking cute in matching jammies

When Alex came downstairs and rounded the corner of the chair and saw the tree with all the presents under it, he stopped in his tracks, yelled "presents!" and ran over to start tearing the paper! It was great! We managed to stop him and had him and Zachary open up their stocking items first. After that and a (really) quick breakfast, we were into the present frenzy. Zachary likes to pull a piece of wrapping paper off, wave it around a bit and then eat it (here, he forgot about his binky and the tape stuck to it). Alex just likes to tear the paper off as quickly as possible (I love the action shot).



Their contrasting styles meant that Alex was often trying to "help" Zachary finish opening his packages. In the beginning, Alex was all about open, open, open. But soon he started to become more interested in what was just opened and wanted to play with everything! I really didn't expect that, and I definately didn't expect to still have presents to open after his nap. But, we did.

a look at the mayhem

After all the excitement inside, a walk seemed like a good idea. I say seemed because when we got out there, the wind was still whipping and the air was really cold. We still had a nice time saying hi to the other crazy folk out walking and gathering sticks. This picture of Zachary sums up how we were all feeling.