Merry Christmas (Sissy's 1st)!

Merry Christmas! We really enjoyed Sissy's 1st Christmas. We didn't think we'd be able to celebrate it with Mom's family up north, but we did end up going. Sissy and I continue to battle sickness, but we are troopers and are trying to get and stay healthy.


We arrived Christmas Eve and were very excited to see everyone.


Sissy loves Christmas trees...

and Papa's glasses...

On Christmas morning, Santa came! We also opened our gifts from Nana, Papa, Uncle David and Aunt Audrey. Here I am, old enough to enjoy Christmas morning.

Sissy liked the tissue paper and bags more than anything.

Santa brought her an xylophone!

We really had a lot of fun playing with our cousins.

Uncle David played with us, too.

Nana read us my new Sesame Street books.









Of course everyone loved seeing Sissy.

We even went sledding!

After sledding, there was a little more fun to be had...

and then nap time!

And after our nap, we took a long bath.

Cohen and I practiced our "Cheers!"

We came home the day after Christmas and celebrated our family Christmas that evening.

I could get used to this opening present thing! Sissy just loves the tree more than anything!

Sissy would love to have a Christmas tree up year-round.

Here I am reading Good Night San Diego (thank you Uncle Bill). I have quite the collection of Good Night books now (Denver, Boston, San Diego, Beach, and Ocean). When Mom and I read them, she always tells me who lives in those places. I love those books!

Mom and Dad got me an Elmo camera! Say, "Cheese!"

We hope you enjoyed your Christmas as much as we did. We were so lucky to see both Dad's and Mom's family for Christmas (Dad's at Thanksgiving) this year. Now we are enjoying a relaxing winter break. Happy Birthday to Uncle Jihad! We hope you got everything you asked for. It was great to see you on Skype the other night!

Have a great vacation everyone!

Love,
Jackson
XOX