Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve with Barb, Jeff, Leah, and Justin in Cottonwood Falls. Lincoln had a fever that day (more on that later) and was not quite his normal self. Despite that, he had fun and was spoiled by his grandparents, aunt, and uncle.

He was so serious for all my pictures in front of the tree.

 He didn't really want to take a picture with Uncle Justin.

He spent some time working on his push-up form. (This is step one in his transition from lying down to sitting up.)

Lincoln was completely uninterested in opening presents. I thought he would at least enjoy tearing the paper, but no such luck. He received some puzzles, a wooden shape sorter, a "baby's first Christmas" rocking horse ornament, a Fisher Price tractor and trailer, and a musical turtle.

He did enjoy checking out Aunt Leah's "pretties."

The closest he got to "opening" a present was this: putting the nesting pirate in the bag, then pulling it back out.

This is a rocking chair that someone from Barb and Jeff's church made for Lincoln. We've left it at Grammy and Grampy's so far, but we'll have to bring it home soon! Lincoln was in love with the kitties! He wanted to pet them so badly. Unfortunately, they wanted nothing to do with him.

Brad's best gift of the day was his dad's fishing boat (an 8-foot jon boat). He asked for this a long time ago, but didn't think he was going to get it... especially after opening a couple other nice gifts. It was an awesome surprise when he opened a gift that had a picture of "Brad's boat" in it!

It was a great day of time together!