December 25, 2005

Christmas

A few days before Christmas, Tyler remembered that he hadn't written a letter to Santa yet. So Scott and Tyler sat at the computer and picked pictures and then Tyler dictated the letter to Scott. Tyler was thoughtful and even asked for something for Brooke.

Letter to Santa

On Christmas Eve morning we got up, went downstairs and discovered an inch of water all over the floor. It had rained tremendously all night and the balcony drain had gotten clogged. A lot of toys had to be washed and dried and Tyler's road carpet had to be rinsed. We also had to pull all the boxes out of the closet under the stairs, empty them and dry the boxes. Fortunately the water didn't reach the computers in the office; it was just a couple feet short. This was much worse than the flood we had last year when the drain clogged. We cleaned it up as fast as we could, got ready for church and barely made it to church on time.

Another Flood

We had an enjoyable Christmas program at church and returned home and finished cleaning up. In the evening we watched the Luke 2 video and then put the kids to bed. Then we put the presents around the tree. We hadn't set any out beforehand because we were worried that they would get opened early.

Christmas tree on Christmas Eve

The kids didn't get us up too early, which was nice. Santa had left their Chevron car ice cream trucks on the sofa. Tyler was very happy to receive more Bob the Builder Legos and some Herbie cars and Herbie pajamas.

Opening presents

Most of Brooke's presents had to do with Disney princesses. She got a princess stroller, princess pajamas, princess slippers and princess fruit snacks.

Princess girl with fruit snacks

Tyler loves helping Scott work with tools, so he was thrilled to get a Fisher Price tool set with a drill and saw.

Hard at work

Here is Princess Brooke with her tiara. Her favorite gift is the pair of slippers. She wears them every chance she gets.

More princess stuff

Tyler-isms:
"The problem is..." - when he wants to emphasize something.

Brooke-isms:
"share" - Brooke likes to be fair.
"fiffers" - slippers

Posted by sjbowden at December 25, 2005 9:09 PM