Christmas!

Christmas was so much fun this year! We had lots of places to go and lots of people to see and Cole loved it all. We spent Christmas Eve here in Lee's Summit, headed to St Louis for Christmas Day and then on the Independence, KS on New Year's Day. Cole got lots of neat stuff, and he picked out his own gifts for everyone this year, which he really enjoyed doing. It was fun to watch him as well, and we could all take notes on how efficiently he shopped :)
Even though he loved all of his gifts, I think that Cole's favorite part of Christmas was the actual "opening" of the gifts. When he finished opening his own gifts, he went around the room and helped everyone else rip off all of their paper. When we got home Christmas Eve, we wrote our letter to Santa and then put out milk and cookies for him before we headed off to bed.
I think that it was almost as exciting for us just to watch him Christmas morning playing with all of his new things.