Christmas Night

Today after nap, we headed to Ma and Papa's for the Moore Family Christmas. When we got there, everyone was already there...waiting for us. (G took a nice long nap...no way we were gonna wake him!) When we got there Gavin was SUPER excited to see his "cousin" Nathan. (We call him cousin...he is actually Derek's cousins child, but Gavin has no cousins here in Cali, so we will make him a cousin:) Gav and Nathan did not waste ANY time, and jumped in the Jeep for a ride. Gavin was in the driver seat...OH MY! Derek and Alvin (Nathan's Dad) were off running right behind them...as Gavin cannot steer yet! The boys were in heaven...riding all over the street...almost running into things, which made it even more funny! They were both cracking up....so cute! What was more cute was the entourage they had. Clearly they are the only 2 kids in the family...everyone from the party was outside watching them and cheering for them....sooo cute.

After riding on the Jeep, the boys headed out to Gavin's outdoor kitchen to "cook" with Ma. We are SO lucky for the great weather...playing outside on Christmas night...does not get better than that.

Then it was dinner, presents, and G and Nathan center of attention time. These two boys were putting on lego shows, music shows, and being totally wild and crazy. They play SO well together...Nathan just turned 5, and this age gap seems to be a really good one...and its just about how far apart Gavin will be with his brother:) They were so happy...and really soaking up the fact that they had about 12 adults attention:)

Zana is pregnant too, and we realized that we are only due TWO days apart! She also is having a boy!!! So next year there will be FOUR boys:) We got a few belly shots, but it was hard to see her belly as she was wearing black. We are so excited to have so many boys.

Lastly we had dessert....and oh boy did Gavin overdo it! He wanted to try it ALL...Hmm, it was Christmas, so we thought why not? Well, lets just say that he was BOUNCING off the walls until 10pm!!! That's the latest he has EVER been up...I know, not too late for some, but we keep G on a pretty tight schedule...so it was pretty interesting! We left to come home sometime before 9pm, and we thought G would fall asleep in the car...wow, very wrong! He sang his ABC's at the TOP of his lungs the whole ride home. He also sang about him and Nathan...it was so cute and pretty funny.

We got home, and tried to settle down, but G was on an excitement and sugar high. So we just let him ride it out, and eventually he went to sleep:)

What a great Christmas. It was so fun to see the imagination in Gavin's eyes this year. He really understood  most of what we were doing and saying, and was just so excited to celebrate. He talks about Santa coming down the chimney all day now, and even talks about the cookies he left for him. It is so neat to see Gav with all his family. They all love him so much, and think he is just so funny...and he sure knows it! Feeling very blessed and happy this Christmas:)

The ONLY thing I wish I could change about Christmas??? I wish we had my side of the family here too...it is so hard to be so far from them during the holidays...we really miss them...and I know that G would have an absolute blast with all his cousins. We look forward to being in Cincy next Christmas and having all SIX cousins together:)