Presents!

It's not even Christmas yet, and already I know it's going to be my favorite holiday. How do I know, you ask? Because, it turns out, Christmas is the holiday when little boys like me get lots and lots of gifts!

I first found out about this phenomena when 4 Yee-Pau, 5 Yee-Pau and 6 Yee-Pau and their families came over for dinner to our house a few days ago. Like always, I was the center of everyone's attention, which I enjoy very much...

But I also noticed that the pile of things wrapped in colorful paper under our Christmas tree got bigger after they came... I soon learned that these wrapped things were gifts - for me!


Look at them all - so colorful and fun!

Then, last night, I learned about another Christmas tradition - Christmas Dinner with Aunties Tracy and Alison, who have been been going to a special Christmas Dinner for many years to exchange gifts with Mommy and Yee-Ma (and a few years ago, Daddy started to join them.)

Even though I'm not old enough to eat some of the food everyone was having, like prosciutto, that was OK - because, yep, you guessed it, I got more presents! Here I am opening one up while everyone else eats -


Finally, since we are going to visit Babcia and Dziadek in New Jersey for Christmas tomorrow, I got to open my presents from under the Christmas tree tonight, on Christmas Eve. With all the presents I've been receiving, I've gotten very good at unwrapping gifts. And now I loooooooove opening presents - sometimes I'm not even sure whether I like the actual presents or the wrapping more...


Here's some of the great stuff I got:

But the best part was not all the wrapping or presents at all, but knowing that there are so many people who love me and remember me at Christmas - I'm a very lucky little boy. Thank you everyone!! If I could, I would wrap up and send my love to all of you too (though maybe without the gift-opening-induced drool...)