Christmas Day

We woke up Christmas morning with several inches of new snow. This was on top of the other 2 storms in the last 3 days. It was nice to see snow falling on Christmas Day.

The kids have historically been late sleepers on Christmas Day. However this year the 3 were up at 6am. Keanu eventually rolled out around 7am. I thought 6 am was a respectable time for getting up on Christmas morning even if they didn't get to bed until 11 the night before.
Keanu was funny all day. As we were getting ready for dinner he was sitting on the couch in the living room with his blanket and eating a plate full of cinnamon twists while staring at the lights.

The kids asked for fried rice for breakfast and I made it after Round 1 of opening presents.

For those of you who don't know we started a tradition a couple of years ago of opening the presents in rounds. There is a lot of excitement in the morning and it can get a little overwhelming so we open presents throughout the entire day. One year we didn't finish up until almost 9pm. It makes it seem like there are more presents and we never hear 'is that all?' Also pieces to presents are less likely to get lost or accidently thrown out. The kids also seem to like the suspense. Today we wrapped it up (no pun intended) around 2 o'clock because Cynthia had to go into work later on.

We also try and have 1 big present for the entire family that we open last. This year it was a bag of cat food. The kids figured it out pretty fast what it meant. Because we live in a rural area with a lot of mice we have been kicking around the idea of getting one for some time. A neighbor mentioned to Cynthia this week that she had 2 of them she wanted to give away. So instead of getting one kitten we got both of them.