Brennan got an early start on Christmas morning. He was up around 3:30 AM and when we told him to go back to bed, he ran downstairs and started opening gifts without us. I came down and found two gifts already opened. I convinced him to go back to sleep on the couch for a couple more hours, but we still got a pretty early start and we made it through his stocking before Tyler even woke up! Santa did bring Brennan the two toothbrushes he asked for (one electric/sonic-type and one spinning.) He was very excited and brushed his teeth two times in a row - once with each brush!
And, he was very excited about the one toy he really asked for - Switch & Go Dinos. He got Brach the Brachiosaurus, Span the Spinosaurus and Tonn the Stegosaurus.
Brennan had picked out a sock monkey for Tyler and was very excited to give his brother a present. Brennan helped box and wrap the gift, as well as write Tyler's name on the gift tag. It was really sweet.
Overall, Tyler didn't care that much about opening his gifts and was much more excited about eating whipped cream with strawberries on top of waffles! Tyler is a big fruit eater, but he also loves whipped cream and if he spots a can of Reddi-Whip, forget it, he freaks out until you squirt some into his mouth. It's really funny.
We drove up to NY on Christmas Day afternoon and spent a couple of days at the Pecorinos. Gary and Caryl watched the boys for us while we went into NYC for the day with my family to see Nice Work If You Can Get It on Broadway, which starred Matthew Brodderick. The show was a satire on the 1920s and was very entertaining.
We visited my grandparents and Brennan asked Poppy to show him his saxophone. Poppy played a few songs for us and also let Brennan give the sax a try. Brennan got a couple of honks out of it! Tyler was very curious about the instrument, but mostly just tried biting down on the reed and mouthpiece.
Tyler and Brennan were also quite curious about the exercise bike in my grandparent's basement and played on that for quite a bit.
We had a fun visit with Uncle Philip and Aunt Kerry. Kerry gave Brennan a tour of the police station and got an officer to show Brennan the police car. We had a fun afternoon/evening together and the boys got to play with the dogs, which is always a treat!
After spending a couple of nights at my parents, getting in a visit with extended family and the Dubins, we came home on Sunday night and spent a couple of days trying to get the house in order! We are still working on completely recovering from the trip, but at least the Christmas decorations are completely put away! Here's one last shot of little T in his adorable Abominable Snowman hat! Brennan got a matching one.
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