First Christmas Presents

Ben was in for a treat this morning when he woke up to find his first Christmas presents of the season waiting on his highchair for him. We had our babysitter Alyssa over last night while Andrew and I went to his company Christmas party and unfortunately she remembered on her way to our house that she had forgotten Ben's present at her house! Andrew picked it up when he drove her home later that night. So, we promised we'd take some photos of him opening the gifts so that she and her sister Brielle, who also babysits for us, could see how excited he was to get their gift :).

For me? You shouldn't have... Ok, I'll pose for one quick photo, Mom, but then I'm tearing these gifts open!

After getting over the excitement of the penguins on the wrapping paper, Ben wasted no time opening his gifts.


Wow, it's a book shaped like a doctor's bag with pictures and punch outs of all the things he sees at the doctor's office when we go. He loves this - it's a book and a puzzle in one when he tries to reposition the punch outs into their appropriate spots- his two favorite things!

OK, onto number two....a Winnie the Pooh talking alphabet book. Wow! As you can see, Ben LOVES this one too. He's obsessed with bees and "B's" lately so this book is perfect since it has both (there isn't a page in a Pooh book without a bee flying around). He tries to do his alphabets but gets fixated on the letter B at this point...A, B, C, B, B, B... So he has been having fun hitting the B button all day long.