Christmas Eve

Christmas this year with Grayson and Max has been magical. Grayson is old enough to understand Christmas and Santa (though he is still arguing with me that it must not be Jesus' birthday, but his). Anyway, he has been so excited and for the past week has known exactly how many days it was until Christmas.

Christmas Eve morning he opened Mima and Pop-pop's "Christmas Eve gift" - a big box of dollar store type toys. Tops, plastic bugs, a rubber ball, etc. He loved it, and they kept him occupied much of the day.

Then in the late afternoon we went to the Christmas Eve service at our church, and then came home to a dinner of breakfast (omelets, sausage, and bagels).

Then Grayson put out carrots for Santa's reindeer,


cookies for Santa,

and milk for Santa.

Then he danced around the living room, flailing his arms,

and doing backward somersaults.

Finally, Grayson went to sleep and somewhere in the North Pole Santa and his elves were busy constructing a large toy with many parts and screws into the late hours of the night. More on that tomorrow . . .