Christmas Day

Christmas was wonderful! We had a lovely day, just being by ourselves, and taking our time.

William got a bike from Santa Claus. He can go much faster now because of the bigger wheels! He has hand brakes, a basket (he wanted one with a basket, very Japanese), and a bell.

It took us a long time to open all the presents. We had left some of the shipped from family gifts in the boxes, primarily because there wasn't room under the tree for them all! We appreciated the gifts to open up from everyone back home! Tim (you'll notice he's looking ill) is about to open up his growler. It's a very cool way to take beer from your kegerator to parties. Yes, Tim was ill on Christmas, and the day after, and even today, but he HAS to go to work today, so we've loaded him up on Tylenol, and he's off to base. Besides being slow because of illness, we had to stop opening gifts to have breakfast, to ride the bike, play with toys and gifts as we opened them, and to watch the clock. Tim got a groovy new clock from Santa. It uses ball bearings to keep time. William was running in every 3 minutes or so, to watch the 5 minutes change over. He'd wait for it, and down it'd go. It really slows down opening gifts when you have such a distraction. 5 1/2 hours later, we finished up. NOT because of a lot of gifts (we were blessed with plenty, however) but because we're easily distracted!