Tre's 1st Christmas!! What an experience...not quite as exciting as it will be when he gets older and gets what is going on, but fun all the same. Tre woke up earlier than I had hoped he would. I left the monitor charger at home so I ended up sleeping in the same room as Tre while Jammer slept in the room that we normally sleep in when we stay at my parent's house. So I fed him once he woke up and took him over to his Daddy while I jumped into the shower and hurried to get ready to head over to my sister's house. Once we were all ready and packed up the car we went over to my sister's house and got started on passing out the gifts. Tre was handed his first gift and was intrigued with it but didn't really know what to do with it.
It wasn't until he was handed a much bigger gift which ended up being some building blocks that he was fascinated with the wrapping paper. He would try and eat it, then rub his face in it and finally pull on it. It was pretty funny to watch him figure it out. He liked to hold it and play with it like it was a toy. Nice to know some interesting wrapping paper could keep him occupied for a bit.
Then it was time for Tre to go down for his nap, it was way past his naptime and he was starting to get irritated. So I put him down in my sister's bedroom in a pack 'n' play for a nap, he slept a little less than an hour which surprised me since he was so tired, but I got him up a few minutes later, fed him and brought him back out to the action. He was excited to see everyone and had this funny look on his face like, what is everyone still doing sitting in the same place. As the gifts were being completed Tre was being entertained by my nieces and nephew. He was sitting on top of Jammer's new coffee maker/grinder and laughing at everyone who would talk to him.
Of course while we are opening gifts and stuff we are enjoying YUMMY YUMMY tamales, our Christmas morning tradition. So after finishing gifts and finishing food we had to start packing up the car with our new gifts and Tre's things. While we were packing up the car and stuff my Mom was sitting with Tre in the rocking chair...he was so cute just relaxing next to my Mom and watching everything that was going on.
Once we were all packed up, it was time to get on the road and head back down to Carlsbad, Tre took a nap on the way home (thank goodness). We were SO happy to not have to drive up to LA after Christmas morning now that Jammer's parent's have a beach house in Leucadia, just a few minutes from our house. So we drove home and was able to unpack the car (which was a good thing because it was filled to the max). Then get Tre dressed in his Christmas outfit and us in ours and head over to the beach house. When we got to the beach house we unpacked the car with all our stuff (had to bring our pack'n'play and all of Tre's stuff plus since my parent's got Tre a new high chair we were able to bring our current high chair which we had gotten from a friend over to Jammer's parent's house to use when we come over to their house - Perfect!).
Jammer's brother John was anxious for Tre to open his gift so we began by opening Tre's gifts before he took his late nap (which ended up being later than normal, but it was Christmas so we bent the rules a little). Such a cool gift, his very first piano/xylophone! It was really colorful and was shaped like a crocodile (Tre loves green). He was very curious about it! Then Tre got some other great things, adorable clothes and a colors book.
Then it really was time for Tre to go down for a nap, he was very tired. So I took him upstairs and got him situated in his pack'n'play which I had already set up while everyone was playing with Tre downstairs. While Tre was taking his nap we all exchanged and opened our gifts to each other. Craziest thing though, in the middle of our gift opening it started getting really stormy and all of a sudden the power went out, throughout the neighborhood, even the street light near the house was out! Luckily the fire was going in the living room otherwise it would've been pitch black. Of course, I get nervous thinking Tre is upstairs, so I go to stand near the door to make sure he is okay. Didn't affect him at all...! So I went back downstairs and after we all sort of calmed down and got some candles burning...and prayed that the power would go back on soon so dinner wouldn't be ruined!! We got back to finishing opening presents...then as we were finishing up I was startled by Tre screaming! It scared me because it was so loud! Maybe he was up there doing his little cry and I couldn't hear him so he decided to scream loudly to get my attention...it worked! Thankfully the lights came back on as I was finishing changing his diaper...so I brought Tre down and we all got ready to sit down for dinner and Tre got ready to eat some rice cereal. It was a YUMMY dinner! And Tre enjoyed his as well..hehe! Then we hung out for a bit and then it was time to go. I had forgotten Tre's jammies at home and by that time I was exhausted from such a long day and knowing that there was no sleeping in for me to recoop, I was ready for bed.
But it was a fun filled Christmas and I can't wait till next year when Tre will be a year and a half and much more into what is going on!
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!
Oh yeah...I wanted to share..I had made Jammer a gift from Tre...it was this really cute poem and I used one of the professional pictures and had it framed. Here is what it looked like:
The poem goes like this:
Daddy take my hand in yours and you will plainly see
How very much I need you now to love and care for me
As my little hand grows I will need you even more
Everything I do in life I have never done before
Teach me to be kind and loving, sharing and forgiving
Show me through your acts of love the pure joy of living
The years will pass by quickly and one day I will be grown
I will pass what you have taught me to children of my own
Hold me always in your thoughts and remember when we are apart
The special love between a son and his daddy's heart.
Love Always Your Son,
Michael Howard Anderson III
"Tre"
The last day of 2008!!! Since our day was documented in Tre's 25th week birthday post this one is dedicated to the evening part. We finished up hanging out at our friend Andy's house (which is actually the surfer Rob Machado's house). It is an amazing house, felt like we were hanging out at a home in Hawaii the way it was set up.
We had planned to get together at their house for New Year's Eve. Tre was making it a little bit difficult for me to relax since he was waking up a bunch while I was down at their house, so I did a little running up and down the stairs a few times. He had a hard time falling asleep when we got him home from Andy's house so I had a feeling I was going to be making a few runs up the stairs to pop his pacifier back in his mouth. The last time I ran up there it was 11:50pm, I was in a hurry to get back downstairs so I could join them in the countdown. Thankfully I popped the pacifier in and grabbed my Sparkling Grape Juice to toast the new year (I'm not drinking alcohol since I am nursing still). I ended up bringing Noa down with me since he was barking due to the multiple times I was in and out of the house (his bark seemed to get louder with each time I went up there, little booger). 
So Monet said it was okay if I brought him down in his bag. Lucky for Noa...so he was able to ring in the new year with us.
We had planned to get together at their house for New Year's Eve. Tre was making it a little bit difficult for me to relax since he was waking up a bunch while I was down at their house, so I did a little running up and down the stairs a few times. He had a hard time falling asleep when we got him home from Andy's house so I had a feeling I was going to be making a few runs up the stairs to pop his pacifier back in his mouth. The last time I ran up there it was 11:50pm, I was in a hurry to get back downstairs so I could join them in the countdown. Thankfully I popped the pacifier in and grabbed my Sparkling Grape Juice to toast the new year (I'm not drinking alcohol since I am nursing still). I ended up bringing Noa down with me since he was barking due to the multiple times I was in and out of the house (his bark seemed to get louder with each time I went up there, little booger). 
So Monet said it was okay if I brought him down in his bag. Lucky for Noa...so he was able to ring in the new year with us.
