Christmas with the Hopwoods

My family usually opens presents on Christmas Eve and then we have our presents from "Santa" and a stocking in the morning. This year my brother, Josh, wasnt able to make it home for Christmas and Kelly and Trent spent Christmas with Trent's family in Centralia. They came the day after Christmas though so we had our Christmas on the 26th. Korbyn wasnt too interested in opening his presents so i opened them for him!!

My parents got him the Baby Einstein Lights and Melodies Activity Center. Its for ages 3 months + but we set it up for him anyways since hes only 2 months. Its kind of hard for him to see it since he has to lay down underneath it right now. It adjusts so it can be angles down for him to look up at but its still not angled down enough for him to really play with it. Hes almost ready to sit in his Bumbo so in a couple weeks he will be able to sit in that and play with the activity center. He does LOVE the songs it plays though.

Great Grandma Hammer got him the new Elmo. Its the funniest thing ever!! He tells stories and jokes and sings and dances and whole bunch of other stuff. If he falls over he says "Uh-Oh Elmo fell over...can you help Elmo get back up?" Then when you pick him back up he says "Thank You!" I think i enjoyed it more the Korbyn did when we first took him out of the box. Korbyn was looking at Elmo like he wasnt sure what to think but after a while of staring watching him dance and tell jokes he got used it. He isnt really old enough to play with it but im sure he will absolutely love it and get a kick out of it soon enough!!

Great Aunt Michele, Uncle Todd, and cousins Sydney, Noah and Chloe got him some cute little slippers with Monkeys on the feet, a ball that rattles and you can put pictures of people or whatever you want in the little pockets for him to see when he plays with. His favorite toy from them was the Eeyore! It has a rattle inside it. Im not sure what it is about it but he absolutely loves it...i think if he was able to he would carry it around with him everywhere he goes! He always smiles and laughs when he sees it.

One of the toys in Korbyn's stocking was a rattle that Grandpa Jim picked out. Its the first toy hes been able to hold onto. I think he is able to grab onto it because the two bars in the middle are twisted. He kept waving it around like he didnt know how to let go!! But he was laughing and smiling the whole time.

He gets in little moods where he talks a lot but i had never seen him talk this much!!!!!!! He was just yacking away.

Korbyn's first Christmas will be one he doesnt remember but one that i will always remember.

Korbyn says..."Peace Out!"