Christmas

We headed over to Great-Grandpa & Great-Grandma Hand's on Dec 24th to spend Christmas with everyone. We had a good and lazy day Christmas Eve. We went to Draper Christian Church to have the lunch they were serving to anyone who wanted to come by. Monster J wasn't interested in eating. He just wanted to play ball in the gym!

Cereal for breakfast!

Monster J loves "oo-e-o's"

The quality control team for Grandma's chocolate pie!

We went to bed Christmas Eve and J did great going to bed, as usual. He had warmed up to Grandpa and Grandma by now and was giving out hugs and kisses and playing around with Grandpa. :) 

Rock-rocking Great-grandma's bears

Watching Great-grandpa wind the grandfather clock.

We got up LATE Christmas Morning and Josh played with the gifts Santa had brought. He got a Early Engineer's Thomas the Train set, a backpack filled with Play-Doh and accessories, a new jacket from Grandma and in his stocking was a harmonica (fun!), a toy worm (he calls it a snake), a new toothbrush and kid-safe toothpaste, bath wash and a train to go with his train set from Dude and Kate. He had the hang of the harmonica after showing him how to blow into it only a few times. That kid is smart! He wasn't crazy about the worm. It kinda gave him the willies! But by the end of the afternoon he was "getting" everyone with it. :) He played with the Play-Doh and train set until Poppa & Grammy got there.

Still sleepy!

The harmonica must be returned to it's original packaging.

Playing his first song on the harmonica!

Poppa and Grammy came in with the hook-up! They got him books, a toothbrush (it's tradition!), big boy undies!, another train set to accompany the one we got him and a zebra riding toy. It's a really neat toy. It goes from a push-walker to a rider to a scooter! He has been practicing and can push himself on the scooter already. It's insane!

He couldn't figure out what it was from where he stood so he leaned over it to see.

More trains!

Helping put his new ride together!

This is awesome!

Matt and Mae Mae came shortly after and Uncle Tom came for lunch. It was delicious and we all ate too much (as usual). 

This is the only photo I got of the kitchen action.

Just a normal night in the Hand household!

Getting some help with his scooter.