Christmas 2008

It has been a fun week. Dan's sister and her husband and their son have been visiting for about a week. Their son Chase is 4 months older then Oliver. The two of them have been playing everyday together, it has been exciting. Danica likes to do what the big boys are doing, so we have to watch her closley. Christmas eve we went to Dan's mother's side of the family for a get together. It was a lot of fun. The boys favorite toy that they found there was a toy shot gun. So they shared that most of the time. We didn't get home until about 9:30 so it was a late night for the kids. For one of Oliver's Christmas presents we got him a Thomas the train table and train set. We brought it upstairs that night, and I got all the presents out and stockings, we wrapped the table, and set up the video camera that way we would be ready in the morning. The kids woke up around 7:45 and Oliver wasn't in the best mood. Dan said Merry Christmas to him and he said No! Dan explained that you are suppose to say that on Christmas to people. Oliver wasn't being very cooperative. Dan said no presents until you say it, thinking all along that he would say it and we could open presents. Well that wasn't the case he refused to say it, and so we put him back to bed and he just laid there for a while and we thought he just needed some time and maybe he would get some more rest and wake up a bit more pleasant. Danica this whole time was great, she kept going over to Oliver's train table that was wrapped up and checking that out. We let her open a gift, but she wasn't that into it. Oliver came back out about 30 min later adn wasn't interested in opening anything so we all just played together for a while and then got ready and went down to Dan's parents house. The funny thing was that he said Merry Christmas about 10 times down there. Oh well we had fun. That night we came home around 7:00 and had our Christmas, and it was great. Danica got a beatiful wooden baby craddle with a Lee Middleton doll with it, she got a baby stroller that is just perfect for her to push it is a sturdy plastic one. Danica actually recieved 2 craddles, the other one was from great grandma kessel, who made a quilt that matched one she had made for Danica when she was born. Danica got some other fun toys as well. Oliver got a little tikes police car to ride around in it has a siron too, he got a work bench with tools, and some more little things. All in all we had a wonderful Christmas.