Christmas in SC

Here are some photos from our Christmas celebrations with our family in South Carolina.

Saturday evening we went over to Matthew's Aunt Elise and Uncle Arden's house. It was nice spending time with Paul and Kellie who live a few hours away now as well as Grandma Brooks. We enjoyed a great dinner of oyster stew. Philip loved the soup too. Then came present time!



Philip opens a present as Mollie and Grandma look on.




Philip checks out his new talking alphabet book. Kellie, Paul, Michael and Mollie, we thank you for giving Philip such great gifts.



Christmas Eve was special as we worshipped in the morning at church. However, I had begun feeling sick on Saturday and by Sunday, I was on the couch all afternoon with a fever and chills. We did want to let Philip open one special present on Christmas Eve to reinforce the true meaning of Christmas. We bought him the Little People Nativity set. Here are the photos including the additional animals from Mollie and Michael which Philip thought should also worship the baby Jesus.





A little girl in Ruth Ann's class passed out "Reindeer Food" (oatmeal and glitter). Philip sprinkled it on the sidewalk to insure Santa would stop at our house.

The glitter attracts their eyes and so they stop for a snack during their long flight on Christmas night!


Christmas morning was fun at our house as our parents came over to watch Philip open presents, exchange our presents and eat breakfast. Philip received a train set and Weeble town from Santa, but I was excited to see that he liked the Elmo Workbench we gave him best.


He is definitely all boy as the hammer is his favorite object these days. This workbench is really cute as it plays the Sesame Street characters' voices when you use each tool. Hopefully Philip will play with it for months to come.