Probably the biggest present Bobo got this year was a giant and awesome play kitchen that inspires real kitchen envy from me.  It’s so nice and pretty and I very much want a mommy version!  He didn’t open it on Christmas day, so he had a while in between presents to sort of extend Christmas out a bit.  Plus, this thing required a lot of set-up.  You can see that from the two separate boxes!  Which Bobo loved playing in, of course… Finally with Grampy’s help it got set up, and is now sitting in our living room taking up…

 Friday was our library’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting, and of course Santa was there to do the honors and then ask all the little munchkins what they wanted.  Bobo was sitting on him so nicely with his hands folded so sweet, and ventured to ask for Thomas trains and a Mickey Mouse toy.  He was so well-behaved and looked adorable, so cute that a lady from the newspaper had to write down his name because she was sure the picture she took of him ‘was a keeper’.  I’ll be checking tomorrow to see if he’s in there of course!

Previously Arin’s toys ruled the living room… but we had to make room for the Christmas tree. It’s a good thing we did, because we ended up with the fattest, widest tree ever! It takes up almost all the space that you see Arin clearing here. Isn’t he so sweet, deliberately picking up all his books and stacking them up on his chair?