My First Christmas!

The fastest follow up post in GrowingUpCadel history!

Last Friday Cadel celebrated his first Christmas. It was a complete afair with a large full tree nicely decorated with ornaments and lights as well as four stockings hung over the fireplace. One stocking for each of us (dog included).

Cadel loved the tree. Mostly for the lights but he was all about playing with the ornaments. If you left him on the floor he would crawl right over to the tree and stare at it. It was also a great way to get him to quite down a little. If he was a little fusy just take him over to the Christmas tree with the lights on and presto! Quite baby.

Christmas actually started on Wednesday night for Cadel when Grandpa was nice enough to drive up to our house from La Honda. We had a very nice visit and dinner together. Cadel received a great present he was allowed to open that night since Grandpa came all that way to see him. Cadel loves the gift and has played with it everday since then.
Everyone opened their presents on Christmas morning. Cadel received a lot of presents. A few too many in my opinion but it was his first Christmas so whatever. Cadel got two nice presents from Uncle Nate and Sunny, a present from Uncle Greg and Lisset and several from Mom and Dad. His favorite present....playing with all the paper and boxes. Of course. What could be better. We played the rest of the day before heading over to uncle Mike and Melissa's house in Oakland for a Christmas night dinner complete with gift exchange. Cadel held up well for a while but then was lights out. Mom was nice enough (and patient enough) to put him to sleep while everyone else ate and drank in the livingroom.

Once the gift exchange started the claws came out. Grandmonthers and Great Grandmothers were having their gifts stole, alliances were forming, scheming was taking place. It was like an episode of Surivor. So I'm exagerating slightly. Erin and I end up with a Tea gift set and a cheese cake made at home by a trained pastry chef who was at the gift exchange. Delicious! Luckly our neighbors were nice enough to take some of the cake off of our hands (and waists). Next year we'll be back with a vengence at the gift exchange. More strategy is necessary for sure.

Thanks to Grandpa Ken, Mike, Melissa, Shauna, Zach, GG (great grandma Dorothy), Nate, Sunny, Greg, Lisset and everyone else who helped Cadel celebrate his first Christmas.

This is most likely the last post of 2009. See you in the new year. Here comes Cadel 2010. I hope you are ready.