Chistmas Eve - All Day Long

Happy Christmas Eve my fellow family, friends and bloggers. I can hardly believe Christmas Eve is over, but boy did we pack a lot into our day. "So sit right back and I'll tell you a tale, a tale of a" ...oh wait, that's the song I sang to Gramps, the Gilligan's Island song, after his "4" hour job took over 12 hours!!!! (Please recall on Gilligan's Island, they originally set out for a 3 hour tour which then took them to an Island for years and years, until the show was cancelled - only difference is they could all work upright, where Gramps was bent over like a hunchback all of Christmas Eve and Christmas day and yes, I can mock as I was not in the pain and hence my nature) :-)

So our family started Christmas Eve by making cookies for Santa. Of course Mommy the ever so prepared one (sadly not), had to have Daddy save the day and run out for some chips for our chocolate chip cookies.

Next while Mommy cleaned and straighted up, Matteo enjoyed some alone/busy time cutting. He does enjoy the adult scissors very much.

Then, please recall we made our Christmas ornaments earlier in the week), we took to PAINTING our ornamnets. Here is Daddy decorating Matteo's hand ornament that Mommy worked so hard on...please notice the spelling of "Christmas". So after some mocking of Daddy (of which he was a great sport), Mommy said from now on I'll do all of the spelling for the family, which is very scary if you know my lack of phonics.

AND THEN THE MAILMAN CAME, AND ANOTHER PACKAGE FROM KATELYN!!!!! This package was extra special as it contained so many surprises for Matteo (can you say play doh and a cars placemat that is personalized) but also some goodies for Mommy and Daddy! Thank you Ambrose Family, you ceratinly made our Christmas Eve extra special :-) and getting mail is always such a treat, especially these large boxes (did I mentioned I wanted an orange live cat?).

Ok having saved that train sweater for over a month, Matteo is all set to go to Aunt Lois' house.

Next, we attended Christmas Eve mass with Oma, Poppi Lou, and Grandma. And really all I have to say is a 2 year old at mass, eating Peanutbutter and Jelly after a 1.5 hour nap is not a good combination :-) Some people encouraged his behavior by laughing, others gave "the look", however DAddy made Mommy feel better by telling her if they chose to sit next to us, they knew what they were getting into. Maybe I should take DAddy's advice and next year sit FAR AWAY from Matteo.

Ok, so we are off to Aunt Lois' house now.

And here he is::::ST. NICK HIMSELF!!! How he always manages to stop off at Aunt Lois' house, I will never know, however there is Aunt Lois letting him in. I must say, Matteo was very chatty with Old St. Nick, even went up to him a couple of times, shook his hand, told him what he wanted for Christmas, etc. etc. And, in my humble opinion, this was the best St. Nick ever. Lastly, please take note at the end of the video, not even Christmas Eve can stop Matteo from attacking Andrew, and Andrew the ever so good sport, takes it.

Here Santa has some pre-Christmas goodies for Matteo

Limpy Gramps got a much needed cane.

And it is with the following present that Mommy relized that Santa really is listening and watching our every move - - if memory serves me correct, I can remember over and over during the summer DAddy saying how much he needed a "studly" apron that featured his body-double in a g-string (red of course). And here, Santa gifted exactly that to Daddy and Uncle Jason. In addition, Santa also gave Daddy a g-string candy underwear -edible of course, because what else would you expect on Christmas Eve?

Finally, we ended Christmas Eve at Aunt Lois' house with Matteo running around, sans clothes, saying "i'm naked, i'm naked" (obviously Mommy was trying to put on his pj's, however he had much more fun streaking :-)

Such a great and fun-filled Christmas Eve, I can hardly wait to see what awaits us Christmas Day. Hope you check back to find out.