Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve day we headed up to Meme's and Pap's for lunch.  Since Eddy loves going up there we took her along.  We had to stop for gas and coffee and I took a few photos of my baby girl.  She is 11 now and getting around well and full of pep.

 

 

Baylor loves holding the leash but she tends to drag him along.  Before we left she darted off and he fell on his knees on the patio.  But at Meme's he kept up with her and we called her to the porch so they did not run off together.

 

I have not been to their house in a long time.  With our different schedules we do not travel much together by Baylor and Lori have gone up there several times to spend the night with them.  He has a tote of toys in the closet under the stairs and he headed straight for it.  In typical four year old fashion, he loves to play the same way with the same toys.  He had to show me his tractor with a string and how he dangles it over the stairs. 

 

We ate lunch, making our poor little man wait for his gifts.  We were sitting there talking and we hear Pap and Baylor opening gifts.  I had to run out there to see what it was.  I guess Pap was excited for Baylor to have his new RC car.  And Baylor was excited about it.  We even used it to deliver a few gifts to Meme.

 

Baylor also 'plays' the piano at Meme's.  He was playing Rudolph for us and later a few other Christmas songs.  He was a natural full of flourish and emotion. 

 

He pulled out his little chair and a step stool and put his feet up like Mamma did. 

 

 

He picked out a Christmas throw for Meme on a shopping trip and after she opened it he wanted to put straight away on her spare bed that he and Mama sleep in.

 

For which she was very thankful!

 

Aww, my girl had a full belly with lunch leftovers. 

 

Meme found several nice little gifts for Baylor and he loved them all.  Of course he loved them for a moment and then it was on to the next one to love. 

 

The black cat he is holding has been lost at our house for months now.  Meme said she was changing the sheets in there bed and out she dropped.  We turned the house upside down looking for her and he is super happy to have her back.  She is sleeping next to him right now on the couch. 

 

Another ritual is the feeding of the birds.  First he had to check the bird bath which was frozen.  We pulled out the ice saucer and crashed onto the driveway. 

 

Meme brought out the fresh bag of bird seed and they filled up the new feeders and the suet feeders.  It was a whole process and he explained it the entire way.  Then he reminded us that the birds are sure glad when he comes there and feeds them.  I am sure they are. 

 

Then apparently they sit on the porch and wait for the birds to show or or the neighbor's cat.  They also threw some lunch leftovers in the ditch for the cat.  When they were cold enough he was ready to come in for some cocoa and a craft for Meme. 

 

I found a Gingerbread house kit in the dollar section at Target and thought it might be nice for Baylor to do with Meme since she does not come down for our real gingerbread party. It had stickers to put on the house and while he used his own design sense he did a great job. 

 

While we were sitting at the table, the cat showed up to eat her turkey dinner.  We were all excited to see her.  When we saw a few flakes in the air we headed home.  Baylor said goodbye to Meme and Pap and we drove him headed for a white Christmas. 

 

Baylor was excited to play in the snow with his little Santa on a snow mobile Meme had given him. He was so excited he wanted us to pull over on the turnpike so he could play in the snow like now!   He was worried we would not have a good Christmas if it did not snow.  How would Santa know to come,he asked, if there was no snow.  There is no need to worry about that now.  We have snow. 

After I brought in the gifts I gave Baylor this bag of food for Santa's reindeer. 

 

 

And then it was snowball fight time! 

 

And Mommy got him good in the top of his head when I slid my hand down the railing onto his bent over head and back!  Mommy almost went on the naughty list for that move. 

 

He bathed up and put on his Christmas Jammies.  The top fits but the pants are for someone much taller than him. 

 

So he is wearing thermal bottoms and the slippers he found in my closet.  He has never worn slippers so he does not have any his size.  But he likes these and that is fine with me. 

 

Even though he looks like he is from Pennsyltuckey.  But if you look closely, so does his Mamma, who is from Pennsyltuckey.  My theory is western PA should be another state like Virginia and West Virginia only we would be Pennsylvania and Pennsyltuckey. The line would be west of the tunnels on the turnpike.  It is another place all together over there!  It takes Lori a few days to get back to an eastern state of mind when she comes home from there. 

 

Tomorrow is Christmas and little man is going to love it!!