A merry little Christmas for Walley and us!

Sigh! The best Holiday of the year has come and gone already! That was just so quick. For more than a month, we plan and prepare, dream about the old-fashioned Christmas, shop till we drop, anticipate the fun and excitement that the blessed and joyous day will bring and then after all that, the Christmas day flies by so quickly; before we even know it, we have already opened up the nicely wrapped presents and eaten a sumptuous Christmas dinner. Why couldn't Christmas last a whole year?? Well, the good news is we can celebrate Christmas all year long if we wish to. The Christmas spirit never dies away and it can stay in our hearts for however long we want it to.

Our Christmas this time was a very, very special one. The three of us woke up to a Christmas morning filled with so much fun and excitement. We rushed to the Christmas tree and opened up all the Christmas gifts that Santa Claus had given us. We wanted Walley to open all his gifts first because he is the youngest in the family and the little boy was so thrilled to get so many presents. Surely, Santa believed that Walley was nice this year!

Here are few pictures of Walley with all his Christmas presents. Walley took all his gifts to his bed and enjoyed opening them, one by one. Our munchkin was very,very happy and we were so excited to see him enjoying the blessed day!
























Walley got a Plush Bunny toy, a squeaky Rooster toy and a Santa monkey toy from his Santa Parents! And thanks to Tom's (a colleague of mine) thoughtfulness, Walley got some yummy Milkbones as a Christmas gift.

Besides the fun of opening all the Christmas presents, we had a lovely Christmas dinner cooked at home. The specialties of the night were: Poulet au Porto (Roast Chicken Steeped with Port wine, Cream and Mushrooms), Puree De Pommes De Terre A L'ail (garlic mashed potatoes) and Mouselline au Chocolat (Chocolate Mousse). French food simply rocks!!















All in all, we had a quiet and peaceful Christmas day. And, we are thankful to our loving and gracious God for blessing us with Walley this Christmas. Apart from all the lovely gifts Elwyn and I got from Santa this year, the best was just being with each other and our adorable Walley all day long.



Tomorrow, Elwyn and I will be celebrating three years of our blessed and blissful married life together and to celebrate the occasion, the three of us will be heading on a day-trip to Woodstock, NY. This will be officially Walley's first Holiday day-trip. We'll be leaving home early in the morning and will be back before night. We are looking forward to a scenic drive and a fun day with Walley amidst the beautiful Catskill Mountains.

Christmas eve is finally here!!

It's the most wonderful time of the year and this Christmas has a totally new and beautiful meaning for us. Walley, our new addition to the family has been the best gift we could have asked from Santa and we got him long before Christmas arrived!! How gracious can God be? We will be eternally thankful to our good Lord for blessing us with a cute little bundle of joy in our lives.

Two weeks ago, we had been to the PETCO store to take a picture of Walley with Santa and the picture turned out really lovely! Walley sat on Santa lady's lap so cozily as if he knew he had to be nice to get lots and lots of presents! Here is a picture of Walley with Santa at PETCO:




Stuyvesant town, our simple yet beautiful neighborhood has a display of a gorgeous Christmas tree which turned out even more beautiful after it snowed for us over the weekend.







Three weeks ago, we brought home our Christmas tree for this year and slowly began decorating it. Here are pictures of Walley when we first brought the tree home. He was so excited to see this new thing at home that he had to explore around it and finally just sat next to it:-)









So, it's Christmas eve and the three of us are waiting for Christmas morning to open our presents that are sitting under our Christmas tree. Out of the three of us, the most excited is Walley. Ever since the Christmas presents were placed below the tree ( by Santa Claus) roughly 3 days ago, Walley has been walking around the tree now and then, looking at the presents, wondering which ones of those presents are for him and what could possibly be inside those nicely wrapped gifts. I have to mention here, that in spite of Walley being in his teething phase right now, not even once did he try to chew on the presents under the tree. He probably knows some really good stuff is in there for him and it's definitely not worth taking the risk of chewing on them:-)

Below are a few pictures we took of Walley today. The little guy decided to guard all the presents so he sat right next to them:-) Eventually, he went to sleep under the Christmas tree. These are such cute pictures of our little munchkin!



















During the picture taking, we had a Kodak moment! This is the funniest and cutest picture of our Walley till date. To us, this picture is worth a million dollars!




Any guesses as to what Walley was doing while I clicked this picture? Well, it's really simple! He was yawning just before he went to sleep next to his presents:-)


On our Christmas tree this time, the most precious ornament is the one with Walley's paw-prints on it. The three of us made this ornament together and it was so much fun! Without Walley, this ornament would have been impossible to make; after all, we needed him to give us his paw print impression:-) He co-operated so well in making this ornament and was curious to see it over and over again. It's so cute! Here are few pictures of Walley's paw-print ornament setting on the foil paper and finally hung on the Christmas tree!




















About a month ago, we took pictures of our Santa baby and us at home for our Christmas card this year. Who has the courage to disagree that our Santa baby is so adorable??





A little while earlier today, I finished baking two different kinds of cookies: a Reese's Peanut butter delicious kind and a Chocolate Chip yummy kind:-) We are enjoying them right now as I type. I specially baked the Peanut butter kind because Walley can't eat chocolate.








On this sweet note, I want to wish all the readers of my blog (on behalf of Walley and us) a very Merry Christmas!! Hope Santa Claus brings you lots of presents!! May good health and peace be with you this beautiful season and always. God bless us all!