Souvenir

This past weekend, Abuelo and Uncle Rodger went to Vermont. Alex's souvenir, from the great ski trip, was a nifty car creation book. So tonight, for their reunion, they sat down and made a firetruck (surprise, surprise) and a polica car.

Thanks, Abuelo!

Garvey getting together

Saturday evening, the Garvey's came over for dinner. Alex did great with Nana and really enjoyed playing remote control police car and garbage truck with Kate and Sarah.

Carr Christmas

On Friday during the naptime, Alex, Pat and I traveled to West Chester to be with Pat's family. We arrived at Mimi's house and were greeted by Aunt Megan and Mimi. Later, Uncle Johnny and Aunt Michele and Aunt Kate joined us via the train. We had pizza and then opened presents. Alex received LOTS of firetrucks/man items and enjoyed playing with everyone. Saturday, we went to Gramps for lunch and enjoyed spending time :)

Christmas Day

Christmas Day, Mammaw, Magnee and Pap joined us for lunch. After lunch, Alex demanded we opened presents, napped, and dessert :)

Geo-trax...all aboard

On Christmas Day, Alex's favorite toys were his geotrax trains. EVERYONE had to play trains ALL day :)

Presents

Alex's comments when he walked into the living room were "Presents, for me?," "Oh dear," and "Wow." Opening presents took 2 hours because after opening each present, Alex wanted to play/sample each one for 5-10 minutes. His goldfish crackers were shared with the rest of the family before Alex sampled.

Before...

Santa was very good to Alex... here's a shot of the living room before Alex :)

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve, the Donaldsons came up for a dinner. We started off with talking and Rock Band and then hit the meal. After the meal and Jesus's Birthday cake, we opened presents. Alex, again, made off like a bandit. From Aunt Laurie and Uncle Steve, Alex received a Hungry Catepillar doll, book, and quilt.

Happy Birthday, Patboy!

33 years old :) Sunday we had a wonderful evening at Mimi's. Then today, he and I went to lunch at Applebee's and then this evening Pat and Alex opened presents. With the new xbox 360, Pat received more games (rock band and Rainbow 6 Las vegas 2). Both boys love Rock Band and the sleeping picture was just too good to pass up :)

Christmas Morning

Here's a good shot of Alex Christmas morning. It took him a while to warm up to the present process. He had to drink his milk and wake up a bit first. Then he would open one present, play with it and then start on another present. After all was said and done, we do not think he had a favorite toy. He enjoyed playing with all of them!

Christmas in Fairfield

This is Alex and Abuela, on Boxing Day. After opening present Christmas morning in Aston, we drove out to Abuelos during nap time. Christmas evening was enjoyed with the Donaldson family and Alex received many great books and a big John Deer tractor. On Boxing day, we exchanged present with Abuelos and that evening went to Erin and Matt Rose's house to spend time with my Fairfield friends.
Thursday and Friday was a lot of visiting and playing with toys. On Saturday, we packed everything up and then went to Mammaw's in the evening. There we enjoyed a silly Pollyanna, where Alex almost came away with Exacto knives and a tape measure (thank you Rich for stealing that!). After a nice evening, we came home and are now trying to get our apartment/lives ready for the new year.