Christmas

Happy Birthday Jesus! Matt and I gave Noah 3 gifts and plan on continuing this trend in the future. Why would we do that? So many good reasons. We gave him 3 gifts to represent the gifts of the magi that were brought to Jesus when he was born (three also representing our Triune God). Additionally I could easily rant about the commercialism of Christmas, how it has grievously become a pagan holiday and that it is so easy for kids to think that they deserve to receive, when they should really focus on giving...but I'm not going to rant. Disagree if you want, we won't stop other people from giving Noah presents...but we won't change our minds either, so don't try to make us.

At first Noah liked playing with his wrapped toys more than his unwrapped toys...he was a bit confused about the whole unwrapping thing. Matt ended up getting me a camcorder for Christmas (LOVE that hubby, he always spoils me!) so the whole thing is captured on video...but I just have the one picture for the morning. We went over to Mom and Dad's around 2 to celebrate with the family.

Beth got lots of good pictures of Noah and Riley together. What a precious girl she is...and she's walking already!

Riley (like her counterpart Allison) likes to show Noah who's boss when they're together...we're curious about how long Noah will let them get away with this abuse!

Aww, they do love eachother!

Micah helped Noah open a couple of his presents.

I don't think I have ever seen Noah as ready for bed as he was by this time. (Perhaps skipping his morning nap and only getting in a 50 minute afternoon nap along with lots and lots of action the rest of the day was the culprit?) Yes, poor baby needs sleep.