Christmas Eve

We let Caleb open his presents on Christmas Eve because we had to leave the house at 3:30am on Christmas Day to catch our flight to PA. Santa doesn't do 3:30am and neither do we. In case you are wondering about our lush, beautiful Christmas tree, it is the first year we bought a live tree. We've always had fake trees because we are never around after Christmas to take it down and don't want to come home to a big pile of needles. For the past several years we've had a huge 15 foot, pre-lit tree. However, this year we couldn't put it up because we no longer live in a house that has a two story room. Rob and I were fine going 'treeless' this year, but Caleb was insistent that we have a tree. So, in my infinite wisdom, I suggested one of the potted trees that we saw at Walmart. They were only $15 and since it's in a pot, we could have a nice houseplant after Christmas. When Caleb and I got to Walmart and I started pulling individual trees out of the bunch (trees look so much nicer when they are clumped together) I noticed how much they resembled Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. Caleb didn't seem to notice, or care and went on to decide which tree was the best looking. After purchasing the tree, we proceeded to load it into the front seat of the Mustang (not the smartest car to use) and brought it home where Caleb happily decorated it.

Our beautiful tree in all it's glorious splendor.

Caleb is very excited over the size of one of his presents.

Pondering how to mine crystals.

Very excited about Wall-E (the robot) pajamas.
He was even more excited when he first opened them and thought they were sheets. Go figure.