Dyersburg Christmas

Christmas fell midweek this year so we headed to Dyersburg the weekend before to celebrate with Grammy, Gdaddy, the girls, and Aunt Denise.

As soon as we walked in on Friday, Jacob made himself at home and ran around shouting.  He was inspecting all the holiday changes Grammy had made and he appeared satisfied with the results.  Grammy decorates nicely.

Saturday, Grammy and Gdaddy slaved away in the kitchen to make a delicious Christmas luncheon for our Hinson family Christmas.  In the mean time, Jacob worked really hard to nap, do puzzles, and generally make himself known.  Luckily he had plenty of attention.

After lunch we opened presents/bags, but Jacob still has no real interest in ripping into packages with his name on them.  So Dada took the task seriously and tried to tempt Jacob with all kinds of goodies in his bag.........books, basketballs, footballs, clothes, but nothing worked! 

While everyone excitedly ripped into their bags, Jacob preferred sitting on the couch playing with Gdaddy's home telephone.....aka dialing 123456789.  Jacob was probably just excited everyone was too busy to take the phone away or erase his latest number combination.

All was quiet UNTIL.........the magic box of magnetic letters came out.  Jacob LOVES letters and numbers, notices them everywhere and arranges them a million times a day so he was completely satisfied when a case full of letters was in his gift bag.  Once the letters were uncovered, Jacob got busy arranging the letters on the case, dropping the letters while standing up, and arranging the letters on a mirrored table.  We are happy to report that no letters have been lost and the letters have been played with daily since. 

After a little time of rest, Grammy and Jacob wrapped up the day with some good old fashioned chase. 

Sunday, after some delicious breakfast, we did what any family does........opened more presents of course.  Once again, Dada was tasked with the difficult process of opening boxes until Jacob became interested in a LeapFrog book with LETTERS and NUMBERS.  Of course we were not at all surprised he loved the book!

However, we were surprised to catch Jacob mesmerized by a rerun of the Lawrence Welk show on PBS.  We had no idea our 2 year old loved musical variety shows, but apparently he does.  Since it is rare to have Jacob sitting so still, we took this opportunity to pose for pictures around him.  We call this the Lawrence Welk effect.  We have since caught the show on TV at home and Lawrence Welk sure can cast a spell on our boy.

We had a wonderful Christmas with the Cole family!