Christmas Gifts-Round 1

Since we would be spending Christmas with the Davis clan this year, we decided to open our Bitler and Heatherly presents a little early.  So, on Monday night we all sat down in front of the tree with lights sparkling, and sorted out the presents.  So, here's how the sorting went..."one for Ian, one for Katy, one for Evan, oh wait, I think all of the rest of the presents are for Evan."  Needless to say, he's a very lucky little boy.  It will be a shock for him when his little brother arrives!

So, we showed Evan his first present.  He's never really been able to figure out how to unwrap presents, so we were interested to see how he would do.  This is the first year he's actually torn into the packages and been able to rip off the paper. 

He absolutely loved everything!  We had to remove each toy from the box and play with them, and then it was hard to move on to the next present because Evan wanted to play with the one we had just opened.  He loved drawing on his new Magna Doodle.  He couldn't stop making the "choo-choo" noise as he played with his new block train.  He loved fitting all the pieces into his new puzzles, and the luggage screener was definitely a hit with his new Little People airport. 

(Evan the artist)

(Evan and his co-pilot)

(The puzzlers)

(Evan the train conductor)

One of the best moments of the night came when we gave him his new potty.  No, he is not particularly ready for potty training, but since he liked potties so much, we thought we'd get him one just to become familiar with.  So, we got out the potty and told him that he was supposed to go "pee-pee" in it.  He immediately turned around, sat down on the potty, stayed there for a few minutes, then looked at us and said "peeee".  Sure enough, he had peed in his diaper and was so proud of himself!  He hasn't been able to duplicate this feat when not wearing the diaper, but he does like to sit on his potty whenever he can, so I consider that a good sign!

(Evan and his new throne)

We can't forget to mention that Ian and I were nicely spoiled by the Bitler/Heatherly clan.  We LOVED all of our gifts and thank you so much for your generosity.  We truly wish we all lived close to each other so we could spend the holidays with all of our family at once!