Ethan's Second Christmas

Here a few pictures from Ethan's second Christmas (only a few weeks late...ha!)

My handsome boys before church on Christmas Eve

Playing at our neighbor's house with Ms. Lisa before Christmas Eve dinner (we had dinner with our neighbors who are like family on Christmas Eve before heading home to get ready for Santa's arrival)

Ethan putting out milk and cookies for Santa Claus, and a small milk and piece of cheese for Santa Mouse

Santa brought Ethan the fire truck he asked for!  He loved it so much it was hard to get him to focus on opening up his stocking!!

He would not stop pushing around his new favorite toy

A present from Aunt Susie, Anna and Suzanne...this was the only box he kept taking out from under the tree and he kept trying to get Aunt Jeannie to open it for him on Christmas Eve.  He was so excited when it was time to unwrap his favorite present from the Christmas tree!

Oh the concentration...

A balance bike from Aunt Jeannie that looks like a motorcycle...he will look so tough riding around the cul-de-sac on this in the spring (with a helmet on, of course!)

The ball from Aunt Susie, Anna and Suzanne that was in Ethan's favorite Christmas box from under the tree.  He loves this ball and carries it around with him ALL the time!

After opening a few presents at home, we headed to my in-laws house in the Greensboro area to meet up with the rest of the family (and my family joined us later in the day as well)

Ethan loved pushing this box around, and if you notice the angel figurines on the table, he kept taking them off the table and putting them on this box, and then back on the table, back on the box...he could have done that for hours!

My sister, Carolyn (due with my nephew in February!), her husband Brian, and Patrick, Ethan and I in front of the Christmas tree at my in-laws

My whole family (minus Bethany)...I wish we would have gotten one with Patrick's side of the family too!

Playing with all his new toys

Enjoying a play date with Graham (although Patrick told me that boys do not have play dates...whatever!)  The boys had a great time together, and Ethan took a 3 1/2 nap after Graham left even though he had slept in pretty late that morning.  I wish Graham could come over to play every day :)

So you can't see either of their faces here (a good photographer I am not!) but at least you can see how much fun they were having together

Ethan was too excited at our house on Christmas morning to finish opening his presents, so when we got back from Greensboro he finished up and loved his new toy phone from his Grandpa

Playing with his Panthers football...maybe one day he'll make it all the way to the NFL (but as a kicker, I don't want to see my baby taking those kinds of hits!)

Saying goodbye to his cousin Ben on Christmas...not sure why the pics are so out of order, but we're just going to roll with it

My nephews, Bailey, Bradley and Ben...They are growing up soooo fast (and Ethan is trying to join them!)