Christmas!

We were able to spend Christmas with Dave's family in Maryland. Owen loved playing with cousins and showing off his new tricks for a bigger audience. Dave loved having a break from his rotations, and we all loved seeing family and eating treats! Owen grew a Christmas molar (which was not actually as festive as it sounds), and we stayed up late watching movies, eating treats, and playing the Wii. So we didn't exactly catch up on sleep, but we had so much fun and are, once again, amazed and grateful to have such wonderful family!

After I got home I realized pretty much every picture I took was of Owen, or maybe Owen and some cousins. But I guess I'm not actually that surprised.

Cousins Christmas PJ picture on Christmas Eve. Eli was happy to finally have another boy to "match" with. I was on video camera duty for the nativity, but this was taken right after. It's pretty much the same idea, but the kids had more towels on their heads for the real thing. Owen played the part of baby Jesus, which involved sitting in the laundry basket eating a cookie while Alex read the Christmas story.

Part of the Christmas molar festivity was that Owen woke up at least 2 hours earlier than usual most mornings. Luckily, cousin Ingrid also woke up early on Christmas morning. It was hard to be patient and wait so long for everyone else to get up.

Sitting on his new cow with wild Christmas Morning eyes.
He found candy in his stocking all by himself. He was halfway through the first piece of chocolate before we got the foil wrapper off. This discovery made him frantic over every little foil wrapped item he could find.
We hope you all had a very happy Christmas too!!