Since Christmas was going to get busy, we opened some of our presents as an immediate family on Christmas Eve night. Unfortunately one of those presents was a microscope. Try to get Joaquin to focus on other presents or go to bed after that! So here's a picture of a happy but somewhat bleary/sleepy little boy on Christmas Day. After opening stockings together Christmas morning, Mommy darted off to church to prep for singing the Christmas services while Daddy and Joaquin enjoyed Christmas morning cinnamon rolls. (I got the recipe from 'the pioneer woman' blog. Oh my goodness! Definitely only special occasion rolls, but they were amazing. I think Daniel actually loves me more now. Honestly.) After some lovely rejoicing in the birth of our Savior we had Christmas lunch, crackers (my want-to-be British brother is addicted, Joaquin likes the pop) and opened the presents from family. Entertainingly enough between his birthday and Christmas, Joaquin has received 3 lab kits and 1 microscope. I can see that our friends and family have a real hold on what peaks Joaquin's interest. We've had lots of fun with them with Daddy's week off. Joaquin also got a make your own swirly crayons machine from Aunty Boo-boo, wow was he excited! Plus lots of books, which also have been tons of fun. Everyone, thanks for making it a Christmas of things he actually likes and not full of little junk that I have to clean out of his room later! We finished our day by going to see Matthew's production of "Camelot". Since he directed it and has seen it now a gazillion times, Matthew was elected to entertain the little boy once he got bored. Which he did fairly quickly. It was actually really funny, I think some little kids would just be entertained by the spectacular costumes and the beautiful music, but Joaquin was seriously annoyed that he wasn't getting the jokes (they're fairly adult in this musical) and that the adults around him shushed him when he asked for clarification. So he got to climb a scary ladder up to the tech area (maybe not something Mommy would have done, but Uncle Matty got him up and down safely) and play Pac-Man on Uncle Matty's phone. Nice. He's so cultured my little one. Merry belated Christmas everyone.
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