Christmas at the LemonDrop

It's been a nicely quiet holiday here at the LD. Christmas Eve we went over to Tina & Ryan's for dinner, bringing along Parie's awesome salmon/sweet potato pie and a flourless hazelnut cake that I baked. Here's Ryan and his two boys, Grant and Orlando, showing Sofian how to play with the wacky abacus.

Ryan and the Boyz Show Sofian How It's Done

Here's the three of us after our massive feast (which also included mushroom bread pudding from Tina):



This morning, the boy must have known Santa had made the rounds as he decided to wake us up at quarter to 6, after nearly a week of lying in between 7 and 8am. We didn't have a whole lot to open, but here's the obligatory baby-with-the-wrapping-paper video:

Christmas Morning with Sofian

He got some new blocks from Santa and was quite pleased with them:



But then got a little tuckered out since he was up rather early:



Aunti Kerri came over at lunchtime and we hung out with her while it snowed for about an hour outside. But, this being Seattle, it didn't stick for very long, and the roads were fine enough for us to drive over to the GO-Team house (Anne Gienapp and Eric Olson) for their holiday open house. Then back home for more blocks and finally to sleep.

Got some work to do tomorrow, and Parie has a final half day at DNDA on Thursday before she becomes a full-time Mom. Then Tutu and Tomtom come up from Portland on Thursday to continue the Christmas celebration (there are 12 days of Christmas, you know).