Christmas morning!

Of course we know that presents are not the reason for the season, but I thought I'd do a little post of the family doing presents on Christmas morning.  Grandmommy and Pappy came over around 7:45 am because Robin had to leave by 9:30 am to get ready to lead worship at church, and we wanted to do breakfast and presents before he left. 

Before we ate we sat down and opened our "special" present: a box revealing the gender of baby #3!  When we had our ultrasound last week, we had the technician box up a pink shirt, or a camo shirt (obviously representing boy or girl!) and tape it closed, and then put the other shirt in a brown paper bag so we wouldn't see which one was not being used.  We wrapped the box and put it under the Christmas tree and waited a painfully slow 4 days to open it on Christmas!  Ty helped us open it, and I think he was quite confused that a brother or a sister wasn't inside the box...just a shirt.  He didn't quite get the symbolism, but promptly moved on to breakfast with the thought of more presents in the front of his mind :)  I'm sure anyone reading this has already seen the news on Facebook or email or text message or some other medium, but just in case you haven't, we're having another GIRL in May!  We are so very excited :)

Okay, moving on to the rest of the morning.......... 

Ty practicing with his new wooden guns...that expression cracks me up.  Something happens to little boys when you put toy guns in their hands, lol!

Jersey opening her "feeding set" for her Baby Stella doll, from Nana and Papa.

Ty madly opening his package of Skybuster airplanes that daddy bought for him (I think Robin enjoys living vicariously through Tyson, and purposefully picks out stuff that HE wants to play with, too!)

Jersey would not leave Grandmommy's new books alone!  She clawed and climbed to reach them every time she saw a book.

Tyson's new book from Grandmommy and Pappy.

Spontaneously clapping before her present is even opened ;-)

The little monkeys opening #1 of 2 "joint" gifts from mom and dad....

....which turned out to be a new set of healthy play kitchen food!  I got a little tired of pizza and donuts being the main course while they played, from our first little set of cheap play food (not to mention the plastic smelled like chemicals), so I finally found a set with HEALTHY options (whole wheat bread, yogurt, fruit/veggies, pretzels, etc).  I think I was more excited about the health factor than they were, but they were really excited about the realistic looking food and the three grocery shopping baskets that came with it!

Aaaaand here we are, the fab four.  Well, I guess it's more like the fab four and a half since I'm 20 weeks along now...  It's so crazy to think that next year we'll have 3 kids to celebrate Christmas with!  Lot's of little people to teach about Jesus' birthday :)