Celebrating the New Year with a little more Christmas

Happy New Year! We celebrated the new year last night and today by finishing up our Christmas with Andrew. You see, Andrew had so many gifts from his grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, and uncles to open this Christmas that we decided to hold off on giving him any of our gifts. He's still too young to realize that being the only grandchild on both sides means you get lots of presents!

Andrew has never really paid any attention to the presents under the tree. On Christmas he wasn't even all that interested in opening the presents people gave to him. He's still just a bit too young I think. (He has always been more interested in the ornaments on the tree. He especially likes pulling off the traditional round ones, rolling them across the floor and saying "Ball, ball!")

So we had to get him started and really help him open the first few. Then Andrew really started to get into it. It was so cute to watch him go back under the tree for another present as the initial excitement of each gift wore off. Some of the boxes were "big", and he really had to work to maneuver them out onto the floor. One thing we did find out is that Andrew is very meticulous. He did not want to move on to opening the box until he was sure all of the paper was off each present. He is also definitely a ripper as opposed to the neat unfolder.

Andrew loved his Lightning McQueen and Doc Hudson cars.

Here he is carrying his two new cars in one hand and a Jeep Christmas ornament from our tree in the other. He spent most of New Year's Day carrying Lightning and Doc around with one arm leaving the other one free for eating, playing and doing everything else.

Doc and Lightning race! He's actually lining them up. He does this with all of his cars.

It's a Mr. Potato Head!

Notice the set of cars neatly lined up in the background of this picture. It's like a parking lot.

Giving Mr. Potato Head a nose.

This is New Year's Day playing with his new train set.