Ben's First Christmas: A Recap in Pictures

The holiday season was pretty busy for all of us, yet relaxing at the same time.  Jill & I both had some time off of work and we took the opportunity to enjoy the holidays with many of our friends and family as well as work on some house projects.  Since we were quite busy, I never had a chance to post any pictures of Ben's first Christmas and over the past week I've had a few requests to see pictures of Ben enjoying the holiday and opening presents.   So here we go!  Here's a recap of Ben's first Christmas!

Ben immediately liked the whole concept of getting presents, as you can see below.

He was actually pretty good at unwrapping the presents too!

The problem was that he often enjoyed the wrapping paper more than the gifts themselves.  He liked the noise the paper made when he shook it or crinkled it up.

Eating the wrapping paper was also a common theme throughout the season.

I swear we really do feed him enough....

Hey, sometimes using your teeth to open presents is necessary, except Ben doesn't have any teeth.  But we did discover that covering the paper with drool first does make the paper easier to tear.  What a smart boy...

Ben got lots and lots of gifts from all his friends and family.  There seemed to be another theme from each Grandma in getting him stuffed riding animals.  Grandma Eileen got Ben a horse!

WHOAAA!!  Horsey!

(Yes, it truly is the size of a small horse...)

And Grandma Jean got Ben a rocking dragon!  How cool is that?!

Here's Ben showing off one of his other favorite gifts... 
although, I'm not really sure that either one of us really knows what it is...

"Oh Wow!  Its one of those rollie ballie change color thingies!"

Of course Ben took the time to thank his Mommy and everyone else for all his great presents by giving us some great smiles and laughs.

And Jill made us all pose for our first family Christmas picture, which came out pretty darn good!

(Yes, she made sure we were all wearing red on Christmas morning.)

And Ben ended the season by giving us a look with those big brown eyes of his...

"Are there any more presents??"

Don't worry, Ben...  there will be PLENTY more presents for you. 

I promise.