Christmas in Newberg

We chose to be home on Christmas morning.  Since being diagnosed with diabetes I have noticed how important it is for me to eat fairly quickly after waking up.  Christmas day was no exception.  I just feel better once I have eaten.

After we ate we TRIED to get Isaiah to open some presents.  Unfortunately all he wanted to do was play with his birthday toys and new Christmas toys that he had opened early from other family members.  After throwing a small fit we convinced him to see what new things he got for Christmas from Mommy and Daddy.
We bought him two bigger presents.  Without thinking straight we let him open his first present which was a spin art kit...not really something we could play with at that exact moment.  So again unfortunately all he wanted to do was play with all the OTHER new things.  AGAIN we convinced he to open his second bigger present and this time it was puzzles...something he could do RIGHT NOW.  He LOVED them!  We built the train, plane, tractor, and boat floor puzzles many times before he was ready to move on to the next thing.

He got a new CARS counting book in his stocking from Mommy and Daddy.  His favorite page was 8 tractors tipping.  He loved it so much he can now "read" it all on his own!

Daddy got a new flashlight in his stocking from Mommy.  Isaiah and Daddy had fun making light shows on the ceiling and giggling.

Daddy is showing off his bassoon ornament (an instrument he played in high school).

Isaiah was great at unwrapping presents this year, but a couple times he needed help with the sticky tape.

Isaiah got a pair of kids chopsticks.  He practiced using them by picking up the wrapping paper.  He even got pretty good.

Daddy now works by a mall and during his lunch break did some shopping.  He found Isaiah a tractor ornament from Hallmark.  Isaiah thought it was really cool!

Lesson learned though...Hallmark ornaments are very fragile.  In the few seconds we let Isaiah hold his special tractor it did accidentally got dropped and the smoke stack broke.  Daddy was more sad than Isaiah, and it will still look good on the tree next year and many years to come.

After looking through all our Christmas in Newberg pictures it seems as though there aren't any of me opening my presents.  I did get some cool stuff.  I got a couple new kitchen knives and a toaster oven, which I LOVE!