Ty had a wonderful and busy first Christmas!!!(1) Our festivities began the Sunday night before Christmas. We all went to Brent's Aunt and Uncle's house, where we had dinner and opened gifts. Ty was good for the most part. He loved Brent's Aunt Linda and stayed with her most of the night.
(2) Brent and I were both off work Christmas Eve. We spent the day last minute shopping and wrapping the remainder of our gifts. That night we went to Great Granny's for dinner...where Ty played the piano and posed for a few pictures for Mommy.
(3) We then headed to Granna and Papa's to open gifts. Granna and Papa gave Ty a red radio flyer wagon along with several other toys, and Mal and Chip gave him a cute Winnie the Pooh outfit and giraffe. Brent drove him around in his wagon and he seemed to love it. Ty also introduced us to some new dance moves of his. Aunt Mal and Uncle Fish were messing with Chip's new ipod and Ty heard the music and started his own little dance. It was really funny.
(4) Christmas morning got off to a bit of a rough start. Of all mornings, Ty wanted to sleep late, and was not very happy about getting up. He finally came around and we went to see what Santa brought him. We tried to get Ty to "open" his gifts, but Brooks decided to help him out. In fact, Brooks opened every one of his gifts. Santa brought Ty an activity table, an Elmo, lots of outfits, a glow worm, a lovey, a crawl ball, a train, leapfrog magnets, little cars, and I'm sure much more that I am forgetting! (Santa might have gone a little overboard! Oh well, he only has one 1st Christmas!!)
(5) After opening our gifts, we were on the road again. This time to Pops and Ann's house for Christmas brunch. Ty had a good time visiting with his 1 year old cousin Owen. He made it to about 10:30 a.m. when he finally passed out for a long nap.
(6) Around lunch time, we headed to Grammy and Grandaddy's house for more presents! Ty got a car that lets us push him around, a microphone stand with piano, lots of outfits, bath toys,a Mickey Mouse and much more! Ty loved his little car and let Grandaddy push him around the house. One of my personal faves was a little dachshund outfit and beanie cap from Janie and Jack from Uncle Casey and Aunt Brandi.
(7) After opening gifts, Ty and I curled up for a little nap before heading to Nona and Grandaddy Beards for dinner. Ty racked up yet again. He got more outfits, more toys, and his Aunt Sue and Uncle Randy opened him up a special savings account. He was so good. He entertained us at dinner by getting his sweet potatoes everywhere but his mouth, played in the floor, and even tried some of Nona's banana pudding. (Mommy got a little carried away and gave him too much....making him sick much later...ooops!) He finally could not take the Christmas fun anymore and cuddled up with Aunt Sue and went to sleep. Not too worry though, the excitement was just too much. He woke up when we got him home, hyper as could be and stayed up til 1 a.m.!!
(8) The morning after Christmas, we met Jaime, Jason and Brady at Cracker Barrell for our Christmas together. The boys were very good, especially since we had to wait a pretty long time for a table. Brady got Ty a shape cookie jar and a cute fleece outfit.So after all is said and done, here is a picture of Ty's "loot".....I think he did pretty good! And thanks to some awesome grandparents...Mom and Dad did too!
As you can imagine, Ty's first Christmas left us exhausted, but it was perfect. We are so thankful to have so much family and special friends in our life. Thank you to everyone for making Ty's first Christmas so special!
