Christmas 2009 was a nice quiet one in Maine. This is the second one in a row where we’ve stayed in Maine. Can’t say that I’ve missed the travel around Christmastime. We paid our travel dues this year at Thanksgiving.
Quincy was a lot more into the whole Christmas season this year. It was neat to see him get excited about all the different aspects of it. He was a big help putting up decorations around the house too. The highlight for him was getting his own strands of colored lights hung up in his room. I’m sure this will have to be repeated every year now.
All the pre-Christmas hoopla did wear him out though. Our Christmas Eve service at church was not late, 6:30pm, but Quincy fell asleep in the car on the way over. He then proceeded to sleep through the musical rehearsals and about half of the actual service. He awoke right around the time that Dara was finishing up her flute part to a carol. Quincy was then awake and back to normal, or as normal as a four year old can be on Christmas Eve.
Fortunately for us, we had everything all done well before bedtime ’cause we were not going to stay up late knowing full well that Quincy would probably be up early. He did surprise us a little by sleeping in a smidge though (but I was up getting breakfast ready). Growing up, we had a rule that we couldn’t open our stockings until we drank our juice. We go a little further here. Dara and I decided that we’d actually eat breakfast first. For the second year in a row we had crepes with strawberries. In the pictures, you might notice that I have a whipped cream covered honeyball as well. Needed my greens!
Quincy was great about opening his gifts. He didn’t just tear into one, look at it, toss it aside and then rip into another. We decided that there was no need to rush him – we weren’t going any where that day. The few times he was ready to move on quickly was over clothes and books (hmm, don’t most kids do this)? The rest of the day was putting together Legos, or playing trucks, or with some other neat toy. His favorite new shirt is his Lego Star Wars t-shirt.
Grammie and Grampa Rock arrived later on Christmas day in time to have supper with us. Quincy was excited to see them and that he had more gifts to open. More Legos!
We had a very large meal on Saturday – the type of meal that keeps on giving for about a week. Quincy had a great time playing with the grandparents – even if he did wear them out after a while. Dara was not used to having Quincy at her all the time to play and she wasn’t sure what to do with all that freed up time. Quincy was sad to see them go on the 27th, but we’ll probably be seeing them sometime in mid 2010.
All-in-all, we had a very nice, blessed Christmas here in Maine and we hope you all did as well.
In case you missed the link earlier in the post – Christmas pictures.