The Parr Family: Christmas Festivities

We have been enjoying the holiday season so far and all of the many events there are. Greg and I are especially enjoying Brayden this holiday season, as he gets so excited over everything. We decorated our tree and the house a few weekends ago, and Brayden was more than eager to "help". For the first week the decorations were up, he loved to play with everything and show anyone who came in the house EVERY decoration. His favorite is definitely the Christmas tree! He played with all of the ornaments on the bottom half and rearranged them several times, but I think he is finally done with that...thank goodness! Now he likes to look at the wrapped presents under the tree, and he knows who each one is for. He's only tried to open them a few times : )

We went to the Smithfield Christmas parade this past Thursday night. It was COLD!! We bundled ourselves up though and had a great time. Brayden waved to nearly every person that went by and kept asking for more after a float would go by. He really enjoyed the clowns and go cart racers alot, but I think his favorite part was seeing his friend Bo go by on his own mom's Smitfield Dance Academy float! Brayden talked about that for quite a while.

We ate breakfast with Santa at our church yesterday morning. Greg and I have been talking to Brayden a lot about Santa Claus, but we weren't sure how he would actually react to seeing him in person. Brayden watched the other kids go up to him for a bit (while clinging onto me). When I asked him if he wanted to go up and sit in Santa's lap, Brayden ran right up to him and climbed up. I was so surpised! You can't tell by these pictures, but he really liked sitting in Santa's lap. He kept wanting to go up, but every time he did, Brayden would freeze up and not talk, smile, etc. He must have gone up to him about five different times though before I had to pull him away.