Christmas Day

As I mentioned at the end of our Christmas letter we stayed home for the holidays for the first time ever this year. Luckily Steph's sister Meg was able to come down from Sacramento for the day (and the night before), so we did have some family around. Still, it was a pretty low-key Christmas. Partly because Evan didn't have any idea what was going on and partly because we wanted to stick to his normal nap schedule we didn't even start opening presents until around lunchtime -- I'm pretty sure that never would have happened in my house growing up!

Evan is not a baby in need of very much, so it was a bit of a challenge coming up with gift ideas to recommend to Santa. I don't remember if we mentioned it or not, but he (Santa) evidently knew that his (Evan's) shoe closet was a little sparse so he (Santa) got him (Evan) a stylish new pair of shoes from REI. Here he (Evan, not Santa) is modeling them:

As you can see in that picture and the next one Evan, in true baby style, was more impressed with the packaging (in this case, his stocking) than with the actual gift. At least Meg liked what Santa got her.

Here he and I are on the couch after all the presents have been opened (it couldn't have taken more than 15 minutes... like I said, low-key). Evan is playing with his new Fill & Spill Fishbowl, which I think is his favorite acquisition from the holiday: