Jacob's First Christmas Morning/Afternon

Christmas day started off by getting up and feeding Jacob just like any other day. Unfortunately, Amy's cold had gotten much worse and dad was feeling some added ill effects of his as well. It was time to take some stuff so that our travels would hopefully not make us get worse...

Time to head for Grandma's house and their traditional Southern breakfast on Christmas, so Jacob didn't get to open the gifts Santa had left for him. Jacob was none the wiser this year as he was just hanging out and caring about where his next bottle was coming from. I'm sure he will understand a little more about what is going on next year.

The breakfast was great as usual just as everyone has become to know and love. After the feast, we shared our gifts and enjoyed each others company. To everyone's shagrin, the visiting didn't last near long enough as we needed to get home and the sister-in-law's family also had other engagements to attend as well.

So, we made the trip back home once again. Have you been sensing a trend for us this year? Yes, there has been a lot of traveling. On the way home, neither of the older kids were very much into sharing our gifts with each other, but we needed to for Jacob's sake. Granted, we could have done it some other day and were already pushing it to the afternoon, but his mother would know and she wanted this one to be special for him, even if he doesn't realize it, so we sucked it up and gave Jacob Christmas.

Surprise, Jacob didn't really know why all of these colored papers were flying all over the place, in his lap and his "Frankie dog" was beebopping presents around him. Frankie definitely understands what Christmas means though, after all, she is 13-1/2 years old (no, not dog years... ;)!). It means if she can get through a little bit of paper, she gets the goodies. This year was much better as Santa brought her chocolate chip and vanilla creme filled cookies (don't worry, they are dog friendly!).

Jacob did enjoyed opening gifts as there were a few smiles from him. It wasn't long and he was out like a light for only about 10 minutes though... There was just too much to see in the living room of "babydom". Dad worked on putting some stuff together eventhough Jacob is a little too small for much of it, but it won't be long and he will be too old for it.