Since Jake's birthday falls on Christmas Eve, we try to spend most of the day celebrating his birthday. The Elf hung some balloons & streamers. He also brought white powdered donuts because Jake had said he loves donuts (even though he's never had them with us, I figured he must have had them somewhere, so what a nice surprise they would be for his birthday breakfast). In true Jake fashion, he refused to eat a donut and instead wanted a nutri-grain bar. So now we have a box of unopened because I know I will eat every one of them once we open it donuts in our pantry.
On his actual birthday, we just have a small family birthday party. He'll have his big friends birthday party in another month or so (or whenever I get around to actually calling a place to reserve). My parents (Nana & Gran) & Robbie's parents (Mimi & Granddad) come up for our little party.
Of course there was opening birthday gifts
And cupcakes
That evening, we got ready for the Christmas Eve service. This Christmas Eve service was extra special because our family and both sets of grandparents all went together.
Afterwards, we went to the Bush's for supper. We then headed to our house to get ready for Santa to come.
We made cookies for Santa
And reindeer food
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| I've seen all over the place, people making reindeer food. I have no idea what their reindeer food consists of, but I used what we had. Which was brown sugar & pecans. It worked for Jake and thankfully we didn't have ants all over our yard the next morning. |
My parents were spending the night with us. Nana read Jake some Christmas good night stories
Then off to bed Jake went & later that night, Santa came!
He brought Jake 3 gifts - a Power Rangers Megazord, Cars Racetrack & a surprise gift (because Jake kept changing the 3rd gift he wanted for Santa to bring) which was a new talking Woody doll. (His old one bit the dust a while back.)
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| Surprise gift was a hit! |
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| Slight birthday & Christmas gift overload |
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| Jake's gifts to us |
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| Resting a little bit on Gran |
Jake opened our gifts to him
My parents left mid-morning to head back to Prattville, and then Robbie's parents came over to see what Santa brought Jake & to exchange gifts.
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| Trying to put together a 500+ Lego Batman set which we thought was a great late gift addition. |
We had Christmas lunch together. Our menu was Honeybake ham, twice baked potatoes, greenbean casserole and macaroni & cheese (hey, we're a starch & cheese loving family). It was a perfect Christmas menu!
Then we headed outside to play with Jake's new electric plane. (Meaning, I didn't want that plane flying around in the house.)
You know you are old when you get a vacuum for Christmas and you are over the moon excited about it. I've seriously vacuumed our house top to bottom at least 9 times in the last 24 hours. This vacuum is awesome!
This was such a special Christmas. Jake is in that precious age where he still believes (without it being weird or us having to lie to him) and just seeing the excitement through his eyes is magical. And Christmas is just so extra special to us, because we received the best Christmas gift ever 5 years ago. This year was also special because both grandparents got to be with Jake on Christmas day. Growing up, Robbie & I had such wonderful Christmas's filled with so many happy memories. I'm glad our parents got to be a part of us making those sweet memories with our own child now. It was an absolutely perfect Christmas.
And again in true Jake fashion, 2 hours after opening all of his gifts, getting tons of toys & our house looking like a small Toys R Us store filled with everything he asked for, Jake look at us and asks the sweetest question....
Can I play with someone's iPad or iPhone?
Tis the season:)
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