Fuller’s first Christmas was a smashing success. If by smashing success you mean that he was awake while we opened his stocking and 5 presents. Then after he slept an hour and a half, he was awake for another hour while we continued to open presents and then he went back to sleep for another hour and half.

Yes, the orgy of greed took us about 4 hours to complete. Our family likes to open presents one at a time and see what everyone got. Since there were 13 of us receiving presents, it took a long while to go through the process.

Fuller, being the first grandchild, great-grandchild, and nephew, made out like a bandit. He is well supplied with books, including a Children’s Story Bible, his first train, and other things that I can’t think of right now. But in all he was very well behaved and not over stimulated. He just kept going through his daily cycles while we all sat around with gifts piling up at our feet and paper trash filling up the garbage bags.

We were able to be leisurely with our gifts because we had our Christmas dinner on the 23rd when my cousin and his wife were still here. Not having to squeeze in a big meal yesterday did make for much more relaxed Christmas day. And it kind of stretched Christmas for us over a few days.

To add a little update, we finally received Aunt Margery’s bags and we think she is one of the lucky ones. Apparently US Airways was having a sick-out and the picture in the paper of the piles of luggage sitting in the Philadelphia airport was a site to behold.

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