Christmas 2008

Christmas was a lovely day. As mommy was explaining to Aidan when he refused to wash his hands for dinner, Christmas is a time for family. It's a time when family all get together and sit together for dinner. Family includes daddy, mommy, ah gung (grandpa), ah po (grandma), Aidan and Logan, that's why we all need to sit down and enjoy our Christmas dinner. He bought it and went to wash his hands. He has grown to accept reasoning and will not listen if you just bark our your orders.

The best Christmas gift for us is to have Logan join us. When he was at the ICN, that's what we wished for, even though he still has all his tubes, at least he appears healthy to us. We also dressed him up as Santa's Little helper. So cute!

Christmas morning was filled with gifts and pictures. We took tons of pictures (you can see more pictures at our photo gallery at http://aidan.mrtoga.net) and Aidan opened many gifts (the most of his 3 Christmases), thanks to family and friends. But guess what, his favorite gift was his brother's Rainforest Waterfall Soother that grandparents bought Logan. He just loves anything with music and lights. It took us a good hour or more for all the picture taking and presents opening in the morning. Fun times.

Then we headed to our annual Christmas mass (except Daddy and Logan who stayed at home). It's been a long time since mommy went to Church. Aidan went when he was a baby and when he was about a year old. After he could walk, we stopped going, worried that he would be running around and causing trouble. We only go on Christmas Day. Yes, we're THAT type of Catholic. :) As suspected, Aidan couldn't sit still at church. Mommy had to watch him closely at the back of the church where other kids and parents were hanging out. He was running around, playing with doors (his favorite thing in the world), looking at the lights, and being his talkative little self. Actually, it wasn't too bad.

In the afternoon, Aidan spent time with grandparents playing with his bubble gun. For some reason, he's scared of touching bubbles. He likes to see them, but not touch them. He is slowly overcoming that fear play by play. Mommy then built a gingerbread house with Aidan. That must be the ugliest gingerbread house in the world. But you know what, it's the process and the experience that count, and not the end result, right? At least Aidan had fun putting the candies on the house, while licking his frosting-coated fingers.

With all the craziness going on in the house, we're unable to cook our Christmas dinner. But that doesn't prevent us from having our nice big turkey, thanks to Lucky's Holiday dinner! All we needed to do was pop the turkey in the oven and microwave the side dishes. Voila! It tasted pretty good, too! We also brought Logan out to the kitchen and to enjoy dinner with us. Like I told Aidan, Christmas is a time to spend with the family, and we can't do that without Logan.