Christmas Day….

We drove up to my parent’s late Christmas Eve night and were there on Christmas Day.  We spent the day lounging around in our PJs, eating, playing with our new gifts (OK, Tyler’s new gifts/toys) and just enjoying the day and being togeather.  Tyler was too funny – I thought he would TOTALLY LOVE opening all of his presents and all, but truly, he could have really cared less!  He was not so much all about ripping open his gifts, but more about swimming in a pile of tissue paper that had developed on the floor – and to think – we could have saved our money and gotten away with just giving him tissue paper again this year and he would have been thrilled beyond measure!  Once the gift was unwrapped, then of course he wanted whatever it was out of the box – but not so much into unwrapping.  It was great fun to see Tyler in his little reindeer PJ’s running around from one thing to another, swimming in the tissue paper, and get excited about some of the things that he loves and received as gifts!  Here are some pics from our Christmas Day…..

PaPa spent 3 hours putting this little gift together and still thinks it is too “girly” for Tyler.  MeMe assured PaPa that every child needs a play kitchen with play food – no matter the gender.  Tyler loved it!  He loves opening and closing all the cabinets, playing with the play food (especially the ice cream!), and getting water from the sink (he calls it “sink water” and makes a little “sssssss” sound when filling up his cup)…..

Because Tyler LOVES anything musical (particularly the guitar and drums), he got quite a selection of musical instruments…

A keyboard….Play that funky music white boy!

An electric guitar with working micorphone…

And, OH YEA!!!  A drum set!…..

Things got a little crazy that morning!!!  Tyler started his own band and Neil Diamond would have been proud at this band’s rendition of Coming to America (complete with motions and all)!! All we gotta say is watch out Partridge Family!  You got nothing on us!

I’m not sure what Tyler did during his nap, but after his nap he took on real rocker form complete with hair!

Uncle Nathan and Aunt Amanda gave Tyler this awesome Tyler-sized dino…

To off-set the “girlie” kitchen, PaPa got Tyler some dinos which they both enjoyed playing with…

And, oh yea, the tissue paper…