On Christmas Eve, we spent time with the great grandparents and gave them their usual gift - a homemade wall calendar. I've been making my grandparents a calendar for Christmas every year since the early 90's when they were made using Print Shop and printed on a noisy Okidata dot matrix printer. This year, of course, the calendar is filled with photos of Gavin and was made using iPhoto on my Mac and printed by the fine folks at Apple. Afterward, we went home where Gavin hit the sack and we watched It's A Wonderful Life. For the first time I could remember, I didn't go to church since it would have been difficult attending with Gavin so late in the evening.

The following morning, we packed up the gifts and headed over to Gavin's grandparents' place for the gift exchange and lunch.

Gavin received a pony from his grandparents.

After opening the pony, Gavin didn't have any interest in other gifts until it was assembled. Daddy appreciated the help, I'm sure!

Gavin immediately mounted and rocked his pony. His dismount wasn't so graceful!

His parents gave him an activity center that he can stand by and keep his fingers busy.

Gavin loves moving the beads on the tracks. His parents love how quiet this toy is!

Gmummy helped Gavin open a few wooden puzzles.

This gift isn't for me, Ma. Why should I smile?

Gavin prefers to hand his puzzle pieces to a parent and then, after all pieces are given away, he hands us the board!

After gift-giving, it was chow time! We dined on lasagna, cranberry applesauce, veggies, and bread. Gavin wouldn't have liked any of it, but we gave him a bite of the cranberry applesauce which didn't please him much.

Aunt Kristen knit Gavin the cutest little baby-sized scarf. He didn't appreciate it so much at first and peeled it off with two fingers, dropping it as far away as possible like it was someone else's used tissue. He doesn't hold quite so much distain for it anymore!

We headed over to the G-G's for Christmas cookies and games. Gavin was tuckered out. Mommy and Daddy won the You Might Be A Redneck If... board game but haven't yet decided if that's a game you should really be proud to win!

Gavin with his proud great-grandma.

And G-Gpa. None of us had seen G-Gpa smile so much since, well, the last time we plopped his great-grandson on his lap.

Merry Christmas!