Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! We certainly enjoyed Jack's first Christmas. As we expected, he was a bit more interested in ribbons and wrapping paper than the actual toys they covered. But he did eventually play a little with his toys, and I know soon he'll have some new favorites. Thanks to all our relatives who were so generous in giving Jack, Andy, and me such wonderful gifts for Christmas! We wish we could be 3 places at once so we could see all our families.

But since that's not possible, we took plenty of pictures and videos! We probably overdid things a bit with the videos as we tried to fully document each moment of Jack's first Christmas. I sorted through all the footage, so here are a few shots of Jack opening gifts:







Grandma Nold spent a lot of time making Jack this great Christmas stocking! You can see it's as big as Jack is--her decision to make the stocking that large may come back to haunt her in future years when he expects it to be stuffed full of goodies!



Here's Jack with some of his cool new toys:




And despite all of those great toys, at the end of the day this is what he had the most fun with:

(in case you can't see that's an empty Gatorade bottle)

Finally, we wrapped up Christmas with a yummy meal made by Grandma Nold and Aunt Lisa. We were eating by candlelight, so these clips are a bit dim, but here's Jack at dinner. He enjoyed some rice, pieces of roll, green beans, and of course his beloved Cheerios.





Merry Christmas everyone!