We had a quiet Christmas at home with just the three of us. We kicked it off on Christmas Eve by attending church service. Here is a family photo before heading out the door.
At the service, they gave all of the kids a packet of entertainment. So Smart! Keith and Oliver were checking it out before the service began.
Hey look, Santa was here!
Santa even left a special message for Oliver.I noticed that Santa didn't have enough letters to spell out "Oliver" so he opted for the nickname his Dad calls him. I wonder how he knew?
Christmas morning, Oliver went straight for his special message from Santa.
Not that he could read it, but he wanted to check out the cool magnetic letters.
Nothing like new toddler music in your stocking.
What else did Santa put in your stocking?
Oliver asked his Dad for some help and them immediately flipped over onto his belly to get close. So cute!
Playing a Christmas tune on his new piano.
Programming something fun on his new computer.
Puzzles! Yay! Oliver is a big fan.
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Oliver playing with some of his new animals. The two horses are his favorite.
I just love this one. Check out how he is holding up his car box with his foot.
Wow! This box from Santa is much bigger than Oliver! It MUST be the new choo choo set he asked Santa for.
Oliver scoping out Dad's handy work. It took a couple of hours to get this far. The whole time, Keith was commenting on how the tooling for the plastic parts was off by 1/8" on some pieces so they weren't fitting together. (only a plastics guy would know this stuff) Of course, he went into greater details, but that is the summary. I looked at the track, looked at the box with the pile of packaging and had two suggestions: 1) make it work 2) put it back in the box so I could return it to Santas work shop. He made it work and Oliver loves it! Thanks Dad!
Mmmmm.... mid-morning snack. Watching Dad work makes a boy hungry. 
Christmas night we went to the Wells house for dinner. Oliver went straight to Jin's kitchen to whip up some dinner specials of his own.
The kiddos at the kids table.
Jin and Oliver diving into the gifts they exchanged.
Jin putting Oliver's hat back on. These two are so cute together.
Oliver and Jin doing a song and dance in their PJ's. It was something like "Chugga Chugga Choo Choo" over and over for about 20 minutes. They would march back and forth through the house singing their song. They played non-stop until we called it a night at 9:30.
The day after Christmas we took Oliver to his first movie in the theater with the Dampf family. We saw the Princess and the Frog and he LOVED it. Keith and I weren't impressed, but we were highly impressed that we now have one more thing we can take Oliver too. Movies may come in handy on the crummy weather days.
Oliver not only loved the movie experience, but the popcorn as well. Keith let me know that he needs to learn that when Dad's hand is in the popcorn, Oliver has to wait his turn. I have a feeling Oliver doesn't think having two hands in the popcorn is a problem. Just like he doesn't see a problem with double, triple or quadruple dipping. Maybe it is just his way of getting his own popcorn bowl, just like he gets his own dipping sauce. We knew this kid had big brains!
Oliver playing with some of his new animals. The two horses are his favorite.
I just love this one. Check out how he is holding up his car box with his foot.
Wow! This box from Santa is much bigger than Oliver! It MUST be the new choo choo set he asked Santa for.
Oliver scoping out Dad's handy work. It took a couple of hours to get this far. The whole time, Keith was commenting on how the tooling for the plastic parts was off by 1/8" on some pieces so they weren't fitting together. (only a plastics guy would know this stuff) Of course, he went into greater details, but that is the summary. I looked at the track, looked at the box with the pile of packaging and had two suggestions: 1) make it work 2) put it back in the box so I could return it to Santas work shop. He made it work and Oliver loves it! Thanks Dad!
Mmmmm.... mid-morning snack. Watching Dad work makes a boy hungry. 
Christmas night we went to the Wells house for dinner. Oliver went straight to Jin's kitchen to whip up some dinner specials of his own.
The kiddos at the kids table.
Jin and Oliver diving into the gifts they exchanged.
Jin putting Oliver's hat back on. These two are so cute together.
Oliver and Jin doing a song and dance in their PJ's. It was something like "Chugga Chugga Choo Choo" over and over for about 20 minutes. They would march back and forth through the house singing their song. They played non-stop until we called it a night at 9:30.
The day after Christmas we took Oliver to his first movie in the theater with the Dampf family. We saw the Princess and the Frog and he LOVED it. Keith and I weren't impressed, but we were highly impressed that we now have one more thing we can take Oliver too. Movies may come in handy on the crummy weather days.
Oliver not only loved the movie experience, but the popcorn as well. Keith let me know that he needs to learn that when Dad's hand is in the popcorn, Oliver has to wait his turn. I have a feeling Oliver doesn't think having two hands in the popcorn is a problem. Just like he doesn't see a problem with double, triple or quadruple dipping. Maybe it is just his way of getting his own popcorn bowl, just like he gets his own dipping sauce. We knew this kid had big brains!
2 comments:
Loved the pictures - You are right - Oliver is just too cute. I love his Christmas PJ's. Too bad you couldn't get Keith in some too. Ah-ha.
Ditto what your folks said about the PJs...too cute and perfect for Christmas! I love the fact that kids still get trains for Christmas. I remember the Lionel set from the 1930s we used to put out...
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