Christmas Day

Wow, you've never seen a more excited kid on Christmas morning than Eli. He exclaimed and screamed and oohed and aaahed over everything. He was super excited about his stocking. He loved his puppets, his wind up toys, his candy, his games, his socks and underwear, and his paint with water book. He still keeps all his toys in a box and won't let anyone else touch them. (A super sharer, this kid).

But most delightful of all, he got the spider man bike and helmet he's been wanting. Don't look too closely--Santa forgot to take the tag off. Oops. That guy must be getting senile.

Hugh handled a lot of the video taping. You can also see their customized pjs in this photo...

Grandma Lila helped Dora with a lot of her presents. You can see Dora had eaten breakfast by this point. We had a pretty full blown breakfast with fancy butcher shop bacon, cinnamon rolls and cheesy eggs.

Eli was so happy about everything. This was a pretty permanent expression.

Dora LOVED these mon-chi chis Santa brought--a mom and baby. How did Santa know how much she loves mom and baby pairs??

Aunt Linsey--Eli loved his spiderman racer. He plays with it a lot.

Nana--he loved Buzz too! He won't let ANYONE else touch him. And they all want to...

Great Grandma gave Dora this doll... It looks SO real!

Lerdle luh and Papa gave Dora lots of food, which she LOVES. She also loves her kitchen, which somehow wasn't captured by photos...

Grandpa Hugh and Grandma Lila had a fun Christmas too.

Whit got some remote control helicopters, and ipad and this apple peeler corer--and a new grill! He did pretty well. Videos of the helicopters later..

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Also, I got a great watch and a beautiful waterfall gallery rose display for above my bed--so I did really smashing too. I just took the photos so I wasn't in any of them.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention... the kids loved the Christmas story. We told it with the nativity often. We also used nativity puppets to tell it on Christmas Eve. Eli and Dora each got really excited about it--but Eli did ask why Jesus is so wonderful. He asked if he was better than spiderman. He didn't get why until Whitney explained that while Spiderman can climb buildings and shoot spiderwebs, Jesus can walk on water and move mountains. He decided Jesus was cooler after all.

Rest assured that we are all very grateful for the sacrifices and example of our Saviour here in the Baker house! What a wonderful time of year, and what a wonderful story to tell, to celebrate the birth of He who saved us all!