Christmas...Take One

Christmas Number One, as it is being referred to this year, took place at the Reed household. After a very early wake up call of 5 a.m. by Jonah, we headed to the Reed house at the more respectable time of 9. (Well, 8:30 and a trip to Starbucks, which has become a tradition of ours.) Uncle Josh arrived shortly before we did and G.G. arrived shortly after. We started the day with Mimi's (Gramma's?) homemade cinnamon rolls, and then moved on to the good stuff....presents! (Not to say that Mimi's cinnamon rolls weren't good. THAT goes without saying.)

 Long ago, I was the Christmas Elf that passed out all of the presents on Christmas morning. Then the torch got passed to Josh. Now, because of his maturity (laziness?) he passed the torch to Jonah. Though Jonah was a bit young, he made a good effort, and carried the presents to each person before chucking it at them. Jonah also did a great job of helping others open their gifts once he had handed them out. Just about everyone had a helping hand at some point. Here he is helping Pop Pop and Uncle Josh open a few.

 

 

Jonah did enjoy opening presents of his own too. (Though Christmas morning was broken up by an interlude of Jonah and Pop Pop playing with a set of salt and pepper shakers for at least a half an hour.) When he returned to the gifts, he opened them with his usual curious speculation. After all of the wrapping was off he found that he had some pretty cool things to play with.

 

 

I decided to help with Christmas dinner this year, being 30 now and all, and was able to muck it up quite a bit. None of the new menu items were keepers. Better luck next year I guess. After dinner we headed out to Christmas Tree Lane. Before we left for Fresno, Jonah had started noticing the lights around town and we knew that he would get a huge kick out the all the lights at the Lane. His reaction to Christmas Tree Lane did not disappoint. He oooh'd and aaah'd and pointed at them all. Thought the Lane dragged on a bit (we heard a factoid that it is the longest of it's kind in the world) we were glad we went.