Christmas 2016

Our first Christmas dinner was on Friday the 23rd at my Moms. It was a bit trickier than expected because I ended up working late unexpectedly and didn't get home until about 6pm, which meant we didn't make it there until about 6:30pm! This is pretty late especially for the goober. We had supper of chili, buns, salad, ham, mashed potatoes and creamed corn (i know... a random mish mash of delicious) almost right after we arrived which worked well since it as past our usual supper time!

 After supper, we headed downstairs for present time. It was this kind of present opening time - my wine + a banana martini. Just a typical Christmas at my Moms! Banana Martinis in full force and you cant say no when theyre being made even if you have a glass of wine on the go...

These were the excited ones for presents! This is the best pocyure I got of them... Logan was squirmy. But he was so cute this night backing up to sit in his cousin Rachel's lap! He was such a happy boy this night opening his presents with his Aunt Steph and loved being around his cousin as always. He was just missing his other cousin who didn't make it this year!

Logan was spoiled as always by his Auntie and Grandma and Grandpa Paul. He got some trendy new outfits, a leapfrog educational toy that sings, and teaches letters, and a car ramp with cars! He also got a new toy boat with elmo squirt toy from his uncle Trevor. Logan is such a lucky, loved little guy.

After presents, we had some dessert... and it was such good selection... all my usual goodies, plus cheesecake, haystacks and shortbread. Logan here loving the haystacks with Daddy.

This guy would not fall alseep because of all the fun happening around him! He stayed awake until we left just after 10pm. Such a late night for this guy. But we did bring some Christmas jammies so he was already to be transferred straight from car seat to bed.

So sleepy. Mid-transfer: snoozing soundly while waiting for the bottle to warm up. He was in bed shortly after.









Christmas Eve
I tried to finish up my work from home on the Saturday but I couldn't get into my work network so I had to go in for about an hour on Christmas eve :( but after that, we prepared to head over to Aleksy's parents place where we had a traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner in the evening with Aleksy's immediate family and Uncle and Babcia.

Before supper, we had some present opening! Logan started to catch on to the opening of the presents and helped a bit this year to tear apart the paper! He didn't really get the concept that there was something awesome inside for him!

Logan's first Budweiser box from his auntie Alyssa. Filled with good stuff... a huge stuffed elephant, a stuffed football and they also got him a personalized piggy bank too.

Logan and his Daddy matching for Christmas eve!

For super, following sharing the bread, we had 12 dishes.. both Polish traditions. Salmon was the main along with perogies, meatless cabbage rolls, and lots of other good stuff.

And we got home at a decent hour Christmas eve so Logan could get his pictures with the egg nog and cookies. This is a step up from last year's sad, glossy eyed, crying pictures! But he was still really tired all Christmas eve from the night before.

Egg nog and our traditional Christmas cookies all ready for Santa!

And the night before Christmas obviously needed to be read to Logan on Christmas eve!

Christmas morning!! This is right when Logan came downstairs in the morning. He saw the presents under the tree (this year, we had NONE under the tree otherwise because someone would have opened them in a heartbeat!) and touched the big present then immediately grabbed the bi yellow inflatable ball you can see here in the corner. He was excited...about the ball that he's had for several months. 

Logan opened all his stocking stuffers first. He got some new snack cups, rubber duckies galore, flash cards, a book and some other odd items. He helped to pull them out one at a time!

And we slowly opened the presens over the next hour or so.. a good break between the stocking items and presents (not that there was a huge amount). Santa brought Logan a play kitchen this year - complete with pots and pans, plates, cups, forks ad spoons. And here is the second part - the plastic food. This is definitely a Logan favourite in the house now! Oddly enough its the plastic wieners he likes best... I don't know if he's even ever had hot dogs before...

Our Christmas card this year!

Christmas Day breakfast! Homemade oat pancakes (which the Logster likes too!) with a bit of fruit, jam, maple syrup and some beer... because it's Christmas.

After stockings, presents, breakfast and getting ready, we were all ready to head to Aleksys parents in the early afternoon (supper was at 2 so we planned to get there around 12). First, pictures of my goober and me all ready for Christmas supper.

That's Kate's little stocking. She got some Christmas treats too.

We got to Aleksy's parents place! We started by opening presents when we got there... new PJs and outfits for Logan and of course cars! Such a spoiled, loved little guy!

Logan actually had a nap on Christmas morning, but the day seemed to poop him out and he had a short lived nap just around the time we were ahving supper. It was nice to give us an opportunity to eat without focusing on Logan throwing food o the floor or being a whiney boy... meal times (especially supper) have their challenges with Mr. Logan.

And this is the deliciousness of Christmas day supper - all the staples of turkey supper plus some polish staples too - bigos and pititchky (definitely not spelling those right|).

We headed home before Logan's bedtime so he could have a good night sleep in his bed - around 730/8pm. It was my day to drive so no fancy drinks for me.. just dinner wine!

And boxing day, we visited my Dad's side of the family Grandparents, Dad, aunt and uncle. Double celebration because that's my Grandmas birthday too! Logan loves his new Paw Patrol table and chairs from Grandpa. He is obsessed and goes straight to his playroom to sit on his little chair every time we go upstairs. Its a drawing/reading station!