Christmas recap

Christmas Eve we went out for our traditional special dinner.  This year we chose a Chinese Buffet to be different and a little funny like in all of the Christmas movies.  The kids loved the food, once Megan got to start eating off of daddy's plate.  When we got home it was time to open their Christmas jammies.  Neither kid is into wrapping paper so we had to work with them but once Sam got the paper free he stood up and took off with it.  He didn't care about the gift, he just wanted the paper.

Christmas day was wonderful.  Will made our cinnamon rolls and then we got the kids up.  We had their gifts separated by the tree and when I put Sam down he made a beeline for his tool bench.  He grabbed his circular saw with one hand and his drill with the other.  He didn't know what to do with them but he was so happy to carry them around.  Megan went right for her blocks wagon and figured out immediately how to make it talk and sing.  As soon as she had the wagon going Sam put his toys down and went and sat down with her.  The two of them played with that wagon for several minutes, just as happy as could be and probably would have stayed there for a lot longer if we hadn't moved them to show them more of their stuff.

Sam loved his train depot and his tractor.  He got on exactly as Will thought he would, which was backwards.  Megan showed his the buttons and he was loving it.  Once we went through making sure they knew about everything we just let them play - Megan was happy with her wagon and Sam with his tools.  I called for breakfast and Sam cleaned up his tools and ran to the table.

After breakfast it was time for them to give us our gifts and then to give their gifts to each other.  We were letting them play again until Megan saw me with her stocking and then they both wanted to check out what was inside.  After seeing everything and eating an animal cracker they were off again.

After nap we facetimed with Granny so she could watch them open her gifts to them.  Sam loved the slinkies and Megan went right after the books.  They played for a couple of hours and then we had Christmas dinner and I gave them their dessert.  Lemon creme pie with cool whip - no crust.  Man they both loved it.

Megan and Sam both had such a fun and wonderful day.