from Christmas morning

Dec 26

Posted by: Rachel in: blog, caleb isaiah, christmas, family, i heart my camera, just another day in paradise, memories, parenting, photography

We finally went to bed about 3:30am Christmas morning, I’m not sure either of us got much sleep. We were so excited and anxious. We got up about 6:30. Caleb had come and gotten in the bed with me about 6:20, so I waited until he was back asleep and got up. By 7:20, we could no longer contain ourselves, so Scott went and woke him up. It was really dark in one half of the house and really bright in the living room…

“You wake me up, make me immediately get out of bed, it is too bright in here, I don’t know where Mommy is, and, and….”

“…and…whoa. I think I need to sit down for a minute. Take everything in.”

“Okay, done taking in. Let the wrapping paper fly.”

Opening the first present

The mile long eyelash picture

I’m so glad he liked this Wubbzy book. Because I went through hell to get it! It came with a beanie baby sized Wuzzby and a book not much bigger than the plush. So it shouldn’t be too much right? Only $12.99, not too bad. Here’s the catch. The only Wubbzy merchandise is made by Scholastic. And only sold at book fairs. Since I refused to pay over $30 for this on eBay, I made some phone calls and wrote some emails and waited. For over a month. I had given up and forgotten about it by the time someone randomly called from Scholastic. She let me mail her a check and she mailed me the book. It was a lot of trouble, and phone tag, but in the end, he seems to really like it. The show comes on Noggin, it’s really cute.