We celebrated Christmas Day in West Bend. We start the morning off by eating eggs, homemade cinnamon rolls at Barb and Cliff's house. We do presents for the kids and then commence withe the adult "theme" gift. This year we picked letters of the alphabet. My letter was "S" and thus I gave: socks, silver earrings, soap and soap dispenser. Adam had the letter "R" and gave a variety of snacks related to the letter R. His gift was highly consumable.
After that, we let Charlie nap and then headed off to the Ciriack's house for the 2nd Christmas. Above is a picture of Charlie opening up one of his gift from his cousin, Theran. We now pick names for the cousins. He got a play drill that he absolutely LOVES. He played with it for an entire hour without stopping. That is unheard of for Charlie.
After the kids/cousins gifts, we opened the "Old Tyme" themed gifts. I must admit that ALL of the gifts were quite good this year. I ended up with "old time" games from my brother Dan. Adam ended up with a hat and scarf that Bob knit (he just learned). It was pretty cool to see all the variety of gifts that ended up around the place. Adam gave a variety of vases that he decorated using rubberbands and spray paint. He cut the vases out of wine bottles. He also gave a bottle cutter. I gave the book "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan and a few jars filled with "old tyme" and "natural" food as well as a washcloth that I crocheted.
It was a wonderful Christmas. Charlie was so well behaved and was a doll to be around. I am very thankful for both the Ciriack's and the Sayre's for hosting us on this festive day.
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