Christmas Day

Berkeley did it! He was good enough to have Santa bring him lots of fun toys! Santa showed up sometime after midnight from what I can gather and brought Berke an awesome kitchen and Mickey Mouse Train. Berke was also excited to find the sweet peddle car his Papa Taft sent him. What a lucky kiddo.

Berkeley LOVES his new car and asks to take it with him whenever we leave the house. Sadly this is not a car that is easy to haul around town with us. He hasn't figured out how to peddle it yet, but his feet can reach; for now he is happy to sit in it while eating candy and playing with his Mickey Rocket Ship, another fun toy from Papa Taft.

Mr. McDuff was not left out of the fun on Christmas morning. This furry creature enjoys opening presents the most in our family. Too bad Berke was not willing to share his opening task like he was last year. Berke became very protective of his presents and would tattle on Mr. McDuff every time he tried to "help" Berke open a present; Berke would have NO help!

Berke kept asking for a Mickey Train and a Minnie Phone for Christmas. Gram came through with the Minnie phone; I think she bought it before he even asked for it. Grandmas sure do know how to spoil their grandchildren.

Christian had a nice Christmas, he scored a nice sweater, thermos, a new coat and some other good finds. He spoiled me this year with some beautiful sweaters from the LOFT and some new TOMs.

Behold, the beloved Mickey Train!

We have a Christmas tradition at our house, after opening our presents we partake of Grandma Taft's monkey bread along with some fruit salad, OJ and chocolate milk.
Delicious!

After opening, playing, eating and playing we all needed a nap.
Then we headed to our friends house to eat dinner and celebrate with them.

Berke sure does love RyRy.
Ryan made an yummy dinner of ratatouille, spinach pie and an amazing dessert.

We were happy to spend the evening with good friend. This may be our last big holiday celebration with them as they will be moving to Madison, WI in June. So sad!

Berkeley sort of stayed up until 10:45 p.m. that night; he was having so much fun playing with his toys I just couldn't put him to bed.
Thanks to all our wonderful family who sent wonderful gifts. We were spoiled as usual.

Here is a short video of Berke opening a present!