The Holidays

The holidays have been good so far. I thought I'd post a few pictures and give another short update of our family time!

Christmas Eve we opened stockings with my Mom and Dad (Kirt and Nancy) over Skype. They had sent us our stockings filled with fun toys and little things we can't readily get here. In the picture, Canaan is wearing one of his stocking stuffers, the Lightning McQueen hat, while he digs through the rest of the stocking. The other picture is of my parents on the computer (what we see). In the bottom left corner there is a small box of what they are seeing-us. (Click on the picture to make it larger.) Then there is also a picture of Canaan talking to them.

Christmas morning Canaan got us up, not too early. Brandon and Katie Price were visiting and joined us while we opened gifts. (We will write more about their visit on another post.) Dougle and I got each other a few small gifts, so we opened those first, since Canaan was occupied playing. After we opened each others, we tried to direct his attention to the gifts under the tree. We told him to look at the tree (trying to get him to notice what was under it) and he just looked at the ornaments and lights. He loves watching the lights as they change colors and blink! After we got down and pointed out the actual gifts, he got excited because the first thing he saw was a tractor-trailer. He was very excited about this new vehicle and started playing with it immediately. After he played with it a bit, we prompted him to open another gift. This is how it went: he would open a gift and play with it for a while; then we would direct him to open another! I think he had fun. He got some puzzles, books, cars, and all that fun stuff that kids love!

There is also a picture of Canaan walking in the snow, which he loves. He looks outside and says, "There snow on the ground!" When we go out walking, he loves to tromp through the deep snow that hasn't been walked through. He did this a lot yesterday, even falling some, but his boots and snowsuit/coat kept him very warm and dry! He also slid down the slide a lot. He thought it was so much fun because he went down really fast and landed on his back or bottom. This just made him laugh! I guess the snow slickened it- or there was ice, and he loved it!

The last picture is of Canaan in the car. He has been enjoying riding around in it, as have we!