Christmas at the Ross estate

We did our present-opening on Christmas Eve night at Grandma and Grandpa Ross's house, with Aunt Jean and Uncle Chris (pronounced "Chris-key") in attendance. We had spent that day playing hard at the O'Neal's house, which meant Isaac fell asleep in the car on the way there. Here he is, snoozing on his favorite pillow-person:


This was actually kind of nice, as it meant we could do grown-up Christmas first and be rowdy about it, and then let it be the all-Isaac show as he unearthed items from his present-mountain piece by piece. Everybody got what they wanted. Dada got an obscene amount of Sears gift cards to blow on tools for his man-bench. I got my every domestic wish fulfilled -- a dustbuster, a waffle iron, and a food processor were all waiting for me under the tree. Uncle Chriskey got money to support his tube-amp habit:


And Aunt Jean and Uncle Chris-key got matching Bob Sanders jerseys:



Just as Jean and I were opening our last presents, Isaac woke up. Aunt Jean began the present cascade with an avalanche of the most awesome pop-up books in the history of mankind:



And then we moved on to opening the stuffed Treelo and Bear (of Big Blue House fame) Uncle Chriskey bought for him, which Isaac hand-picked for himself at the Disney Store:



At some point in the pile we hit the Thomas jackpot. Grandma and Grandpa went hunting online to find him his very favorite train, Boco (you can almost hear him through the picture screaming "IT'S BOCO!"), which joined a larger collection of trains and props before the night was through.





Isaac also got a Kubota tractor (from Grandpa who sells them), snowsuit, pajamas, more books, DVDs, puzzles...at some point in the evening I'm sure I started screaming about how all this would never fit in our house. And this was before we even hit the O'Neal Christmas blowout. Stay tuned.