Noah's First of Many Christmas Celebrations

Today our family celebrated Christmas.  Over the next week, Noah will be going to at least 8 Christmas family get together's and Friday and Saturday we will probably need to leave our house by 7:30, so since Noah doesn't normally get up until around 7 and we wanted to do a Christmas here just with us, we decided today was the perfect day since Matthew and I were both off and we could do it first thing this morning.  Last night Santa came and set out some presents for Noah and filled his stocking as well.  (This will be a little detailed because a lot of info I put on here is for Noah's baby book)  In his stocking Noah got his favorite snack, Yogurt Melts, new pacifiers, some baby food in his favorite fruits and a belt which his daddy was excited about!

After the stocking Matthew sat with Noah and helped him begin opening his presents.  To my surprise he actually did rip some of the paper, he needed help to of course but did do a little.

I had so much fun helping Santa pick out presents for Noah.  I was definetly a lot more excited than he was, I was just waiting and waiting for him to get up this morning.  I knew I couldn't expect any reaction from him since he's so young but I very much look forward to the upcoming years and all the excitement that he will have.  Anyways this year from Santa, Noah got a Winnie the Pooh laptop ( he loves our laptops and loves to open and shut them and sure enough that was the first thing he did with this one, didn't care to much about all the buttons and lights)

A basketball hoop, which he already loves.  It has spots up top for the balls and the middle one puts the ball through the hoop and the side ones drop the ball to the bottom and then they roll it, he giggles at it when they do that, so cute!  Also he is such a big boy, he kept letting go of it and was standing all alone without getting scared, I was impressed.  There were many times he stood for quite a while today.  

 Then he also got a toy for the bath (so cool, it squirts water and makes a fountain in the bath, Noah wasn't very impressed though he still wanted the old Disney rubber character toys),  a wooden box play center with different activities on each side(  I wanted something that wasn't electronic, I think they need more simple and old school games and not always toys that light up and make so much noise), Paint and Learn Easel, baby CD Player and a ball pit.  

Playing with some paper

Loving the ball pit, he loves balls more than anything.  He was so cute sitting in there moving his legs like crazy to get the balls to move. 

One problem with the ball pit was when he got too close to the elephant head, he wasn't a fan when it got in his space.  He would push it back and then it would just come right back. 

The ball pit is huge, we haven't figured out where it will be kept because it is a very large item.  Matthew asked me what I was thinking, but I couldn't help it since I just knew he would love it so much.  

At the end of the day when it was time for bath, I finally remembered to try and get some pictures with the Santa hat I bought him awhile ago so we made an attempt.  An attempt because it didn't go well, Noah would not leave the hat on for a second, as soon as we put it on his hand was already on its way to get it off. I snuck a smile in between trying the hat.  

 Our next idea was to try and distract him so we put Veggie Tales on which he loves and then he stared at the TV so we finally got one with the hat but only with him staring at the TV.  It still didn't really work because even though he was so engrossed as soon as the hat went on he would reach up for it.  Oh well!  Maybe another year!