So I often type long drawn out posts, and this is no exception, sorry. Sunday night we moved out of our house. OK, so not really, but we did get rid of our big dining room table (that was in our living room). We had already moved our china cabinet to my parents house a couple of months ago so we could have room for the baby's new toys, and now we had to do it again. Soon, there will be no place to sit unless you sit on a toy that squeaks, in a baby thing (high chair, jumparoo, scooter/car) or on a toy box. We had spent the last week in Cincinnati visiting family. Ares celebrated his first Christmas this year.
We celebrated on the 20th with my parents and some grandparents. Ares didn't really get what was going on, so he pretty much just ate paper. Grandma Venus did better than I was expecting. He got lots of toys, but he didn't get spoiled any more than I was when I was young. 
Cinci was a different story altogether. He was grasping the whole, rip-the-paper-and-hear-a-cool-noise thing. The opened a good majority of his gifts, but after, say, 15 of them, the novelty was gone. I have to say it's a great thing that we only have 3 people in our family (plus a tiny dog), because we needed every inch of our 8 passenger SUV! He got so many things! His grandparents (and great grandparents... don't think that you guys are going to be left out Grandma and Papa Jim) got him SOOO much stuff! Clothes, toys, balls, ice cream bowls (so he can be just like Grandma Jean), stuffed animals. Our kid had the best week ever! His favorite thing down in Cinci was a simple ball. Probably the size of a dodge ball, this kid just crawls around and pushes it.
We were in Cinci for 6 days, and it was so wonderful. For the first time in a long time, we got to relax. Usually our trips down there are so fast and furious, we're more tired when we get home. This week was so enjoyable, we got to see lots of family, eat some great food (I gained 3 lbs!)
At my mom's house, on Sunday (27th) we celebrated Christmas with the Schmidt family. He got some new shoes, a few toys, and a RadioFlyer wagon that my grandpa fixed up for him. It looks BRAND NEW! Of course, his favorite thing to play with was the giant green exercise ball, he crawled around hitting it, sometimes with his hands, sometimes with his head. When he's using his head, sometimes it looks like he's competing in some goofy obstacle course or Japanese game show. Silly boy. 
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