Christmas in the US

Well, it has been a while since I posted to Tobias' blog. That is because we were in the US for the holidays. We had a good time and Tobias had some pretty good experiences, starting with flying! He was such a good boy! Even though we asked for child friendly seats we did not get them so Tobias had to be on our lap the whole trip. He did not make a fuss about it and just dealt with it. He even slept for a little while. He did not start crying until the plane landed.... I guess he just could not get enough of it :-). Once in Dickinson, it took a few days before he was used to the time change, but then again, that was no different for mommy and daddy.

This trip was very special in many ways. One of the main reasons is the fact that everybody was there. Opa and Oma from the Netherlands and Uncle Ferdinand also came over! So the family was all together. It was a house full, but it made it very special. I doubt Tobias will remember, but I know that we will.

While in the US Tobias got quite some books. The one he is reading here with Oma is actually not a Christmas gift, because as you can see in the background the gifts are still unwrapped. There are a couple of things to notice in this picture. Like I said, the gifts are still wrapped. If you focus on the gifts you see some rather large ones there.... well, those are Tobias'. Next, the tree. First of all it is something that is supposed to be in a Christmas picture. Second of all (although you cannot see that in this picture) there is an ornament on there especially for Tobias. It says "baby's first Christmas" on there and then Tobias' name and his date of birth. Well, they misspelled his name: "Tobias Queen" instead of "Tobias Quinn". This gave us quite a laugh actually... Finally notice the stockings in the background.... Isn't the small one cute?

So, all in all I thought this picture to be quite the Christmas picture, and it was taken on Christmas day as well. Hence this picture in this post...