Here are some more photos from Zeke's first Christmas at my grandmother and sister Dawn's house, in no particular order.
Yay! Christmas Eve dinner! On Christmas Eve, we grazed for hours. My grandmother (and her sous chef/my brother in law Tony) spent hours making about a dozen different hors d'oeuvres and a few friends came over to visit and to make sure we didn't eat all of the food ourselves. While Zeke was excited to sit at the hors d'oeuvres table, he only got to eat baby food.
Both Zeke and Zach got great wooden puzzles as gifts. Zeke -- only being a baby -- gets that the puzzle pieces come off the base, but he doesn't get that they go back. Zeke is delighted to spend hours doing what you see him doing here, taking pieces from the puzzle and dropping them on the floor.
During our stay, we played tourists for a day and went to Tarpon Springs, home of the world famous Sponge Docks. (Haven't heard of them, though they are world famous? Tarpon Springs was once home to a thriving sponging industry led by one of the largest Greek immigrant communities in America. When I spent a summer in Greece and I told people I met that I lived in Tarpon Springs, everyone knew where that was and many told me they had family there). Zeke got to eat lunch at a Greek restaurant and be subjected to dozens of tourist shops with classically themed names like the "Agora". We didn't take a lot of photos, but I liked this one of us together.
Zach got this totally cool pop-up tent from Trish. He was kind enough to invite Zeke in. I want one, too!
We got Zeke the wooden Radio Flyer Town and Country wagon -- a completely classic toy. I had to get it for Zach knowing how much he would enjoy it. I also had to get it after seeing it because I knew Zeke was too little for it this year and someone had to get it. Both Zach and Zeke enjoyed it Christmas Day in the living room...
...and then around the neighborhood. You can't see this in the photo, but Zeke is holding onto an entirely age inappropriate firetruck (probably just a little too small for a baby) that Zach got for Christmas. Zeke loved it and Zach let him hold it for most of the inaugural ride in the Radio Flyer. Zach was very good at sharing his toys, though I think they were both confused about whose toys were whose after they were all unwrapped.
This is the behind the scenes photo of "Santa's Workshop". While the Radio Flyer wagon was easy to put together and Tony probably could have put it together in 3 minutes, Dawn, Tony and I worked on it together in the garage on Christmas Eve. We all wanted to play. It was fun!
Zeke took a moment on the last day to wave to his daddy who was loading the car for the return trip home. I think this is Aaron's favorite photo from the trip.
It's amazing what Zeke gets into now that he can move around so much, including popping up behind a window. What a silly monkey!
Yay! Christmas Eve dinner! On Christmas Eve, we grazed for hours. My grandmother (and her sous chef/my brother in law Tony) spent hours making about a dozen different hors d'oeuvres and a few friends came over to visit and to make sure we didn't eat all of the food ourselves. While Zeke was excited to sit at the hors d'oeuvres table, he only got to eat baby food.
Both Zeke and Zach got great wooden puzzles as gifts. Zeke -- only being a baby -- gets that the puzzle pieces come off the base, but he doesn't get that they go back. Zeke is delighted to spend hours doing what you see him doing here, taking pieces from the puzzle and dropping them on the floor.
During our stay, we played tourists for a day and went to Tarpon Springs, home of the world famous Sponge Docks. (Haven't heard of them, though they are world famous? Tarpon Springs was once home to a thriving sponging industry led by one of the largest Greek immigrant communities in America. When I spent a summer in Greece and I told people I met that I lived in Tarpon Springs, everyone knew where that was and many told me they had family there). Zeke got to eat lunch at a Greek restaurant and be subjected to dozens of tourist shops with classically themed names like the "Agora". We didn't take a lot of photos, but I liked this one of us together.
Zach got this totally cool pop-up tent from Trish. He was kind enough to invite Zeke in. I want one, too!
We got Zeke the wooden Radio Flyer Town and Country wagon -- a completely classic toy. I had to get it for Zach knowing how much he would enjoy it. I also had to get it after seeing it because I knew Zeke was too little for it this year and someone had to get it. Both Zach and Zeke enjoyed it Christmas Day in the living room...
...and then around the neighborhood. You can't see this in the photo, but Zeke is holding onto an entirely age inappropriate firetruck (probably just a little too small for a baby) that Zach got for Christmas. Zeke loved it and Zach let him hold it for most of the inaugural ride in the Radio Flyer. Zach was very good at sharing his toys, though I think they were both confused about whose toys were whose after they were all unwrapped.
This is the behind the scenes photo of "Santa's Workshop". While the Radio Flyer wagon was easy to put together and Tony probably could have put it together in 3 minutes, Dawn, Tony and I worked on it together in the garage on Christmas Eve. We all wanted to play. It was fun!
Zeke took a moment on the last day to wave to his daddy who was loading the car for the return trip home. I think this is Aaron's favorite photo from the trip.
It's amazing what Zeke gets into now that he can move around so much, including popping up behind a window. What a silly monkey!
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