Merry Christmas

Today was a wonderful Christmas day.  Last night it was snowing.  Lucian was able to watch it out the window.  I know he wanted to go out and touch it, but he had to wait.  I was excited myself.  I love snow. After I was able to get him to sleep, Joe graciously cleaned out the front room in preparation and built a cute little track with Lucian's wooden train track.  Nothing elaborate.  Just a nice little track to place his gifts about.  After the boys went to sleep, I moved all the presents in the room and placed them around the track in the corner.  I was excited about morning.  Especially now that Lucian is in the present opening stage.

This morning was fun.  Every morning Lucian wakes up and goes to the front room to play.  That is why we chose to set everything up in that room.  Plus our little tree, which we will be moving outdoors soon, is in the window of that room.  When he woke up this morning he did his usual move to the front room.  As he broke through the threshold I heard this big "Ohhh".  I knew he noticed the difference and the added presents wrapped in pretty paper.  Daddy and I made our way into the room and Lucian wasted no time in jumping into the action.  He played with his train for a little and then went to the presents.  He did a great job opening and exploring each gift with curiosity.  If he talked more, he probably would have asked a million questions. It was great. We played, we ate, and then we got dressed.  There was snow for us to explore!

After the struggle of getting everyone dressed and ready to go.  We grabbed his new sled (thanks grandpop!) and my camera and took off.  After getting him into the sled, Joe pulled him around the yard.  He loved it.  We decided to go the field across the way since there wasn't that much snow left from it melting.  Plenty for us to drag him in though.  He enjoyed the little ride.  Then we built a little snowman.  Lucian helped roll the balls of snow and pack extra on the sides. We stacked them up into a snowman shape.  He loved it.  Then Daddy taught him how to taste the snowman.  Lucian was ecstatic about having built a giant snow cone.  Even with the snow melting as we went, we all had a great time.  After visiting my family for the holiday and enjoying some food and company we came back home to find no more snow on the ground.  Our snowman, however, can still be seen across the way.  He's not too big and not too small - he's just right.  The boys went over to see him and say hello.  He was doing well even after some more tastings from Lucian.

Overall, it was a successful holiday season.  There was snow on the ground making it a white Christmas.  We built a snowman, sledded, opened presents, visited loved ones, and ate snow (not yellow of course).  Lucian received a lot of presents that he is currently enjoying.  Out of everything he received, I think he enjoyed the play scarves that Daddy and I have been hand sewing for him to play with.  They brought lots of laughs and several falls.  Doesn't get much better than happy tears.  Merry Christmas everyone. I hope the next year is just as fruitful.