Usually my whole family comes together on Christmas Eve -aunts, uncles, cousins, grandchildren, great grandchildren, grandparents....the whole gang- and we have a family Christmas Eve get together where we eat lots of pizza and play Christmas games, usually like a "White Elephant Christmas Exchange" where each adult brings a gender neutral gift, and you draw numbers, #1 goes first obviously..#2 either picks a gift or gets to steal #1's gift....and so on and so on...and then there are fun gifts for each of the little kids and they always get SO excited for that part.
This year, since Zak wont be home on Christmas Eve, my family decided to bump it up to tonight so Zak could be a part of it, his sister and her husband and 2 little girls came as well and it was a lot of fun -craziness but fun :)
Aside from that, Zak and I decided to do our Christmas with Grayson early as well so Zak could be a part of Grayson's very 1ts Christmas, so we did that this morning as well. Since Zak and I already exchanged gifts it was more of Grayson's Christmas Part 1 and my parents and sister had a few presents for Zak as well :)
For Grayson's 1st Christmas Zak and I got for him a bunch of fun toys...some are hard to explain so see pictures :)
One big thing he did get was a full size keyboard...yes, we DID get out 9 month old son a full size big keyboard? Why you may ask. Well here at my parents is my grandmothers old piano, that I love and play all of the time, I can read music and play by ear, I love playing the piano, and I bring Grayson to it a lot and he just bangs on the keys and plays and plays, so we got him the keyboard because it can sit on the ground where he sits, at his level and he can play and play, and as he gets older he can actually learn to play if he would like. As soon as we sat him down to it he litereally played on it for 30 minutes straight he loves it! We also got him so fun books, along with another recordable book for Zak to read.
Grayson is loving all of his toys, as I type he is playing away with 3 of his new toys at one time.
We love getting Grayson toys, but we also like to get him things that are fun but also help with learning and development, that is very important to us :) He does have some just playful toys, as every baby and child should but we try to get things that will be helpful as he grows :)
We will still be having Christmas Part 2 on Christmas Day so there are more toys for Grayson to come but today was so special to get to do Christmas with Grayson and Zak together and Zak get to see how much Grayson enjoys everything him and I got for him for his 1st Christmas.
Side note: Tomorrow is my Birthday! I cant wait to spend it with Zak and Grayson and go on a romantic Birthday Date :) :)
to the monster star and back
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