Christmas Morning

Thank goodness I'm a light sleeper, or we'd miss a lot of cute stuff. So Christmas morning, I heard B tiptoe down the stairs around 6:30. I was expecting him to wake up early, but I was also expecting him to bust into our room. But I guess he was remembering our don't wake Mommy and Daddy before 7am rule, and he didn't come in to wake us up. Then we heard him go back up the stairs, and back down, back up, back down, until he stayed down. Nick peeked in to see him sitting on the couch just taking it all in. Then at 6:58, he couldn't take it anymore and ran into the bedroom to "wake" us up. Lawson was still sleeping, so he ran upstairs to wake him up. Lawson does NOT like being waken up, so he was up there for a while. I kept hearing "Lawson, Santa came! Lawson wake up! Lawson let's go downstairs, Santa came! Lawson, there's PRESENTS!" Finally the little guy slowly made his way down. He was still half asleep when he took everything in. Briley on the other hand was bouncing up and down. We always start with stockings. This year Briley finally realized that the paper in his stocking is the same paper that Santa uses for his presents. He thought that was pretty cool. His paper this year was Lego and Lawson had super heroes. We almost lost Lawson to his tool bench. Love, love, LOVE their faces. Skylanders were a big hit. Where's Lawson? The aftermath... WHAT a morning! I know these days won't last forever, and I know presents and Santa are not the reason for Christmas. But I sure do love making these memories, watching the excitement, and living the magic with them.