Christmas

We went to my Unlce's house for Christmas Eve. Isaac played with Troy climbing the stairs and watching the fish. He had a good time. I told Charles that a fish would be a good pet for Isaac because they pretty much don't do anything... but Charles has bad memories of cleaning fish tanks :( Then Isaac woke up at 7:30AM Christmas morning and we opened his gifts from under the tree. He played with his new toys until about 11AM before he went down for his nap. We then drove out to Beechmont to see Charles' Grandma Beatty. She turned 92 the Saturday before Christmas and was placed in a nursing home the week before. She doesn't talk much anymore, but she smiled when she saw Isaac - and she smiled when he left! Charles read the Christmas story to Grandma from her Bible. She seemed to enjoy it.

Then we rushed over to Charles' sister Cindi's house for dinner and a game of White Elephant (which they neglected to tell us about, so we had to "borrow" gifts from Cindi and then pay her back). It was fun. I was the first person to steal a gift and then the game got started! When it was over, I trading the Coach purse I ended up with for a UC sweatshirt (you're welcome Hope) and Charles ended up with more Starbucks gift cards. It was a lot of fun, and Isaac was good the entire night! Isaac received gifts from everyone and enjoyed playing with them during our gift exchange. It will be fun next year when he is old enough to get into gift opening more. It seemed like as soon as he figured out how to unwrap a gift, there weren't anymore for him to open. Charles said that Isaac wasn't going to receive anymore gifts until he turns 5 because he has so many already -- We'll see about that ;)