Christmas 2016

It is now Boxing Day and Mike, Aimee and Maya are out shopping, Chris and Jason are loafing, Avery is napping and I have a chance to blog.

The Christmas tree was up when I arrived. I gather Avery helped decorate it and he has been very good about not touching it. He bought the long snowman home from his last day at daycare with "I did, I did" which meant he coloured it.

In Aimee's family, Christmas gifts are unwrapped on Christmas Eve so the kids were allowed to unwrap one present before they went to bed. We had our introduction to Avery's unwrapping technique. He frantically tears off small pieces of paper. His partner in crime, Maya, then puts them in her mouth.

Avery got Car slippers (they go so well with the skull and cross bone pajamas)

Maya's were pink with little claws.

Chris and Jason flew in at about 11am and still had wrapping to do so we really didn't get started on Christmas until about 2:30pm.

Avery in his elf hat with a mouth absolutely full of clementine pieces

First it was Christmas stockings (as if it was Christmas morning instead of afternoon). We each got a kitkat and Avery immediately identified it as something edible, biting right through the wrapping with no problem and then proceeding to eat mine as well.

Avery was the elf and started out very well, handing each gift to the person he was told to and then helping them unwrap it. After a while he just got very impatient with the process and developed a number of unique "Avery Elfing Techniques":

1. Air mailings (throwing gifts at people)

2. Multi tasking ( how many wrapped and unwrapped gifts could he carry at one time)

and finally

3. Cut to the chase: lets skip the step that's taking too long and I'll just unwrap them all!

Avery was very generous with helping everyone unwrap. Yes, that is a cupcake onesy Mike is wearing. A gift from Aimee. Going one better than Christine's gift a number of years ago; My Little Pony pajama pants.

Avery immediately understood how to use the ride on Jeep I gave him. Aimee and Mike were not happy he got a Jeep before they did.

We had an excellent Lasagna for dinner, turkey is on Boxing Day, and the kids didn't get to bed 'til late. Too much excitement. So much fun.