Christmas Day

Christmas Eve we managed to get through the snow and to the mall to see Santa before he left to deliver all the presents. We really didn't prepare for this. If we had, I would have put him in his plaid tie. He looks pretty cute though. We thought we'd have to be in the picture with him, but they managed to get one where he looks fairly happy and isn't arching his back to get off Santa's lap. We wanted to spend Christmas Eve with Grant's family, but because of the weather, it was called off. We were happy to find that it was 50 cent wing night at "Fire on the Mountain", the best place in Portland for wings, and got lots to go. Yum.

We gave Parker just one present.
He climbed over it at least 10 times.

And after Grant ripped the corner of the paper, off he went. There were little scraps and then bigger pieces.
Then he kissed the picture of the kid on the box. He won't kiss me, but he'll kiss his box!
Here it is all set up. A space train set.
We rearranged the furniture in our living room so that the tree is completely blocked off from Parker. The only way of getting to it is to climb on the couch. Grant was sitting there watching over him.

Parker loves when Grant brings out his trombone. I do too. You know, I met Grant in 7th grade band class. If he had not played a musical instrument, maybe we would have never really crossed paths.

Good Christmas. I was bummed that the snow kept my mom from getting up here to celebrate with us, but we met her the following day to exchange gifts. I will post a picture in the next couple days with some of his favorite gifts.