Gifts (edited with pictures)

I've noticed there are some people in life that are really great to give presents to. They always seem to have just the right reaction. Ryan is one of those people. If he doesn't know what it is he might just sit there and stare at it, probably trying to figure out what it is so he can get excited about it. Usually he gets excited before the wrapping paper is even off the gift. As soon as he sees what it is his eyes will get wide and his chin will drop, he'll give a big "What?!" or "Cool!", he might even jump up in the air or giggle his I-can't-contain-my-excitement giggle. It's really so much fun to watch him on Christmas.
This year was no different. There were even some mentions of it being "the best day ever." After all the gifts were opened Christmas morning and we were deciding what we would play with Ryan was asked about what he got. He said, "Good, but I didn't get some of the things I ordered." Ordered?! Oh my goodness!

Some pictures of Christmas morning reactions.

Opening his matchbox race car.Opening his Wall-E robot(he hadn't even seen Wall-E at this point)

The boys got matching Ravens jerseys.


One of the things Ryan ordered that he didn't get in the morning was a "cool dinosaur book" and the other was a "Brio Race car." Brio doesn't make their building sets any more and you can't buy them anywhere, so I passed the word to everyone that an erector set would probably fill in nicely. Once the families came he got the erector set from someone(I feel terrible, but I missed him starting to open that one, so I didn't catch who gave it to him. I think it was Uncle Ben. If you know let me know and I'll fix this). He also got the book pictured below from Uncle Ben. I think that qualifies as a cool dinosaur book! So his order was completed after all;-) We've had a talk since then about being grateful for what we're given and about lists for Santa being "wish lists," but who knows if it will sink in this time.