Monday, January 12, 2009

The day has finally arrived

7:00am EST. Santa has arrived!

And he brought new big boy bikes!


In their stockings, the boys found candy, toys, and tape measures (so they can be just like Daddy and measure stuff). Even Keegan got one!


Gray was particularly excited about the Nerds he found at the bottom of his stocking.

And here we have the coveted Bat Cave.

This was not on the original Christmas list, but as Christmas drew closer and the advertising execs. had a ball pumping the cartoon channels with toy commercials, the Bat Cave rose to the top of the list and was repeatedly requested to Santa in person. So much so that "Santa" had to run around town on 12/23 in search of said Cave so as not to ruin Christmas for two "good" little boys. Luckily, he was successful seeing as Mommy really did not want to pay extra for overnight shipping. In all seriousness though, they have not stopped playing with it (or fighting over it) since Christmas morning. Christmas would surely have been ruined, despite the living room full of new toys, had Santa forgotten the Bat Cave.

Warm mittens and a hat from Mommy and Daddy. We wore shorts on Christmas day, so I'm not really sure when we'll really need these.

Keegan's favorite toy -- a ball and cup set from Ashley, our Nanny. Although you only see one picture of him here, every single picture of him from Christmas morning includes the yellow ball either in his hand or in his mouth. He simply would not put it down. We lost it on 12/26 amidst all the Christmas clutter, but subsequently found it again during the New-Year's-Day-Resolution-Clean-Up and it remains one of his favorite toys today.

Thank you to all our friends and family for the wonderful gifts you sent. If you sent a noisy gift (like the ones pictured here from Jenna and Patrick), and you have children of your own, then don't worry -- your time will come. We will resend obnoxiously loud gifts in return for your child's next birthday! But really, I must say that the band instruments are a hit (separate post about that later).


Yay! Transformers from Grandma Cathy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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