Merry Christmas!

I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas filled with family and friends. Sebastian's first Christmas was an exciting occasion. Mostly, he loved the bows on all his gifts. And tissue paper was a big plus. He'd occasionally help to open a gift if it caught his attention enough. Overall, he was quite gracious and has really enjoyed playing with all of his Christmas gifts over the past week.

The Giammarinaro Family.

Sebastian Claus. =) He was such a ham!

Happy boy!

We spent Christmas Eve at my Titi Monica's with our family. We have also become good friends with two families from church that are from Puerto Rico and they also joined us. We had great food, lots of parranda music and a good time.

The 3 musketeers. In the center is my god-daughter Angelica with Sebastian and at either side her two new friends (daughters of the two new Puerto Rican families I mentioned above). It's been such a blessing because they all are only children and they are all 5 years old. They entertain themselves and love it!

We attended our parish's first midnight Mass. It was beautiful and also quite an adventure. It was misting/drizzling the whole time and boy was it cold! But it was a beautiful Mass and everyone really felt like family. Sebastian was even up for part of it. He was by far the warmest and happiest of us all in his cozy stroller with an umbrella and blankets.

Christmas morning! Sebastian let us sleep until about 10 am (nice!) and was a happy boy Christmas morning. We opened our Santa presents that morning.

Sebastian doing his crawl/slither on Christmas morning. He's headed for the bows.

Cool present from Santa! Bilingual maracas! Wow, they make some fancy toys now - that makes me sound old doesn't it... He liked them.
Abuelo came over in the morning to give Sebastian his Christmas presents. He loves his Little People airplane.
And he got a serious monster Tonka dump truck too! For now, he fits in it more that he can play with it, but he'll grow into it.
Later Nana, Papa and Corey came over too. Sebastian was very interested in opening his present from Nana and Papa - a music activity center with a big mirror.
He loves it! He laughed and laughed at himself in the mirror and at all the lights and sounds. Here he is sticking out his tongue. He loves to do that now and laugh.
Who is that handsome boy in the mirror!?!

With Nana and Papa.

Titi, Angelica, Sebastian and Angelica's talking baby she got from Santa. A Sebastian inspired gift.

Emily, Daniel and puppy Remy on Christmas.

Sebastian loved his Glow worm from Abuelita.
And my little avid readers loved his Baby's First Nativity Book from Abuelita.