Christmas morning at home

As Christmas Eve wound down to a close, we eventually got two hyper varmints off to bed thru much wailing and gnashing of teeth. 

We had to get them to bed as Lesley had an idea that she wanted to implement.  You take a large piece of plastic and affix it to their doorway so that you can stuff balloons in behind it.  The idea being that when the open the door from the inside, the balloons fall into their room and onto them.

So after nearly passing out from blowing up balloons, we got the only plastic we owned out, which was a very heavy mil of plastic, and attempted the attaching it to the doorway.  I had to get the duct tape out to reinforce it, but it worked.

 

This is the doorway in question prior to them getting up.

So upon opening the door, Robby could be heard saying, "Well, that was unexpected". Caleb was giggling and shrieking like only he can.  So then, Robby explained to Caleb that they were trapped in their room and continued to instruct the Chinese lad to crawl under the plastic to get out.  He did.  Once he made it safe and did not perish, then Robby crawled out! 

And then it was off to playing with the balloons, even with Robby in his underwear (hence the pretty pink flowers over his nether-regions in the photo).  The balloons are still a big hit even 3 days after Christmas!

For breakfast, momma made a candy cane out of bananas and strawberries.  Robby thought it was cool looking but wanted something else like summer sausage.  Caleb ate the candy cane and asked for more tomorrow (or "tomorelo", as he says).

Then it was on to the Bible reading about the birth of Jesus that we do every year prior to opening presents.  It was extra cool this year as Robby is old enough to read and not stumble on many of the words.  He did awesome!

And as a nice Christmas morning surprise, we had a package from the fine state of Maryland, where it just so happens that our friends from China, the Gonsalves, live.  Liena and Ethan sent Robby and Caleb a Christmas present and surprised all of us.  That's the package that they're opening currently.

It's a Monopoly-based game called Washington-opoly.  We all sat down and played a game last night and had a blast doing it.  It lasted nearly an hour and I think both boys really enjoyed themselves.  Every time that someone would land on one of Caleb's property and had to pay him rent, you'd get this little "thank you!" in his high-pitched voice.  Hilarious and quite cute.

Caleb opening a random gift.

The lads trying to figure out how to get into some of their loot.

Caleb got some little trucks with trailers on them to tow boats or motorcycles.  He likes pulling things behind other vehicles.  In fact, he has a John Deere tractor with a Fisher Price boat tied on to the hitch that he pulls around in the basement quite often while Daddy and Rob play Wii football.

Robby and Daddy with our feet in the new family sled.  That's football cards in the boys hand and he wanted dear ol' Dad to go thru them with him.

And since Daddy wasn't ready to go sledding in the back yard yet, the boys decided to take matters into their own hands and do the next best thing.

We did manage to go sledding later that afternoon and will likely go again today at some point.  It's a lot harder work today than it was when I was just a lad myself.  It's almost like exercise now!!

And so was our Christmas day.  Hope everyone had a good one and took time to remember why we celebrate that day in the first place.

Take care!