Christmas in SLC

Today is Christmas and we have spent the day doing virtually nothing. We were up about 8 AM and opened presents. Grant had a great time playing with each toy for awhile after opening it. His Grandma Mellen got him a great wood fire truck from Pottery Barn and a Little People pirate ship. His Oma Glenn got him some good Jesus books and a funny t-shirt. He loved opening presents. After presents and breakfast were done, I'm not sure what we did. We did a lot of nothing. We went to Chad's aunt Carol's home for dinner then tried to enjoy the Temple Square Christmas lights in 9 degree weather. I don't remember the last time I was that cold. Grant was most enthralled with the water fountains and features still flowing on Temple Square. He started saying water and snow over and over again and even got himself out of the stroller to see the water.


Grant trying to find the treasures hiding in his stocking. He didn't totally get the concept and couldn't figure out why there were several matchbox cars in there.
This is Grant trying to open his new fire truck. He opened it one small piece of wrapping paper at a time.

On Saturday, Grant finally got to see Santa Clause. Three tries are a charm I guess. We tried twice before we left Tucson but did not want to wait forever for a 30 second visit that Grant was inevitably going to scream through. We ate dinner and shopped at Trolley Square then went right up to see Santa and Mrs. Clause. We took our own photos but it beats the endless wait.

On Christmas Eve, I had the stomach flu so that put a big damper on things. I was feeling better by night time and we all went swimming in the indoor pool. It was snowing last night so it was fun to watch the snow falling the glass room while we swam. Grant loves the pool. He jumps in, goes under and loves to swim between me and Chad. Unfortunatley, he floats as well as a water logged tree trunk. He hasn't quite grasped the concept of kicking, floating and using your arms. We will start swimming lessons again in a few weeks and hopefully learn the basis. He now tries to blow bubbles in the water by sucking it in. Not a good thing really.