Emerson's First Christmas with his Mimi & Papa... Gabe & Emily, too!

Hi Emerson! Your Mimi was afraid she wouldn't get to see her boy on Christmas...
Emerson wasn't too sure where all this was going... he was a little confused about what all this "Christmas" talk was about.
He wasn't too sure he was going to like it...
He looked at his mama...
He looked at his daddy...
He changed his clothes and then drooled a little...or a lot....
When he started playing with his red jeep, I told him he had gotten that from his daddy for Christmas...
and he had gotten this cool, wooden toy from his mama for Christmas...
Then he understood... and he was happy!
He put on his cute little Christmas bib from Grammy... and listened to Saddie on the phone...
He thought about talking, but just smiled instead...
When it was time to open his other gifts, he was a little timid at first... His papa helped him get started with the ripping...
Emerson looked at his Mimi and Papa when he saw his books... he was ready to read...
Papa decided to sing to him instead...
He thought that was pretty hilarious!
He wanted to open another gift...
He then discovered that he enjoyed the paper... he loved the noise it made when you crinkled it...
Now this gift was a little different. It wasn't wrapped but was inside a bag. No problem, he just pulled it out!
It was a bear jacket. His sweet mama put it on him, at least the hat part, to show how cute he was in it.

We already knew that...

He's cute in everything...or nothing!
His mama checked out her stocking...
His daddy was doing a little investigating of a package, trying to figure out what it was before he opened it...
Ohhh! A skill saw! Yep, he can sure use that!
Now Emerson gave his daddy a mug... telling him he was the World's Greatest Dad...
and he put a picture of himself on it so his daddy would remember who gave him the mug!
Back to the ripping...
Emerson was having a grand time with the paper... I think he would have kept playing with it if his Mimi hadn't declared it "group foto time!"

The timer on the camera was set...Mimi ran over to get in the picture...
and Gabe wanted to make sure we could see him in the photo! This makes me laugh...it's so Gabe!
Christmas morning, 2009
I was truly sorry that so many plans were changed because of sickness...nothing serious, but sickness none-the-less...

But I was happy to see Emerson, Gabe, and Emily... and Biscuit, too.... and to be with them on Christmas morning!