belated 'christmas'

papa, nana, and uncle derek arrived for a belated christmas visit.  and, of course, to finally meet maddux now that we were getting settled in ohio.  as always, they were much too generous with the christmas gifts!  here are some pictures and captions of the christmas presents:

mason was generally more interested in the boxes and paper.  he loved the gifts too, but the paper got his attention first.



mason was sharing the wrapping paper with uncle derek.  mason likes things to be clean and helped with getting the wrapping paper into the garbage bag.



he played a little too.



madelyn is getting really good a giving me a pretty, staged smile.  i love it!  way better than the squinty eyes and chin up, nostril shot.

nana found some cute holiday bags to 'wrap' up the kids' clothes and other hard-to-wrap gifts.



another camera smile from madelyn with her dress-up ballerina.

the video shows mason playing with a new toy from papa and nana that inspired them to call him "bam-bam" during the rest of their visit (as in the son from the flintstones). 

we had a nice time visiting with them over some delivery pizza on paper plates before they headed to a hotel for the night.  love.