We arrived a few days before Christmas which gave us time to prepare Aiden for the excitement. Since he's repeating everything we got him to say "Santa", "Merry Christmas", "Christmas lights" - all in his cute lispy voice. On Christmas Eve we went to a church service and he sat through the whole thing like a big boy!
Then Christmas morning came, and Aiden was so patient in waiting for each person to get their presents and open them. There were so many presents that we had to take an "intermission" for breakfast, then went back and opened the rest. All in all, it took about 3 hours to get everything opened! Of course, that was just the first Christmas.
Friday morning we left to go see the other side of the family, and we opened more presents there!
We also went over to the cousin's house where Aiden participated in an impromptu jam session with Grampa Holt and cousin Jason.
We came back to the Grandparent's house on Sunday. We had intended on leaving Tuesday to spend New Year's Eve with Beth's family in ATL, but before we left on Friday morning we noticed a rather large pink stain under our Jeep. Luckily there was a Jeep dealer in the town, so we got it towed, and they said they might not see it until the next week. We got a message on Monday saying it was just a small part in the transmission that needed to be replaced, but of course the parts truck hadn't arrived yet, so they said the earliest it would be ready would be noon on Tuesday. Since the drive is about 9 hours we didn't feel like leaving that late in the day, so we just decided to stay through New Year's. We had a relaxing, quiet NYE because we all managed to catch a lovely cold so we didn't feel like going out and partying. We came home Friday and have gotten everything into the house - now we must figure out how to organize it all!Here's more pictures for your enjoyment:
Aiden on his Elmo chair
Family picture
Stockings hung by the chimney with care
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