Christmas Day

Christmas morning finally arrived, and Evan was excited to open presents -- all those wrapped boxes might contain cars! Alex, of course, didn't know what would make this day different from any other, but that didn't stop us from dressing him in his most-Christmasy outfit:

The first present Evan got to open was his stocking stuffer from Santa, which was a Mater to go with his Lightning McQueen:

His very own Mater (which he insists on calling "Tow Mater" -- I think we may have mistakenly told him that was the character's name when he came on screen the first time we watched Cars and it's stuck) was pretty cool, but the prize gift of the season was a new car carrier from Grandpa Jim and Grandma She (they shipped some presents to Hallie so the kids could open them on Christmas), which also included a blue Dodge Viper. Once he opened that box the rest of the morning looked something like this:

Go open the next present, give it a glance, return to playing with the Steel Stork (the car carrier's name), repeat as necessary.  That was pretty much the recipe... for a happy Christmas.