the home team: churgovich family christmas

the last couple of weeks boden seems to be having the time of his life! not sure if it is the stimulation he is getting or he is just coming into his own. so many times he just acts so happy to be alive. it is really fun to be a part of. this past christmas is no exception. we had a wonderful time. the only thing that could have made it nicer was if we would have had aunt nae and uncle wiley there to share it with us. maybe next year... i decided the best way to tell about the adventure was to narrate through pictures. i told you they were coming, so here it is.... hold on!

as always, boden having fun with uncle robbie.

eric is currently reading a book on mozart's life. he is convinced boden is going to be a prodigy...

helping gramma play the piano.

trying to wake up while sitting on grandpa after a nice long nap.

boden is taking after daddy and uncle robbie in their love for gramma's famous fudge nut bars. anytime anyone was eating one, boden had to have some too!

boden could not be kept away from gramma's christmas tree. gramma said she didn't care if boden broke every ornament on the tree if he was happy playing with it. well, he only really broke one (i never saw uncle robbie and daddy move so quick to sweep boden up out of harms way :) ), and there was only a couple times i was seriously worried that he might pull the tree over while trying to take off a stubborn ornament. all in all, i think it is safe to say he took about 30 ornaments off the tree when it was all said and done???

boden had a lot of fun opening presents! he is finally starting to understand it. when we would bring him a new present, he would make this surprised/excited face and dig right in.

a little quite reading time with gramma in the midst of all the excitement.

boden loved the kitty charlie!!! it was even more exciting because boden had just started to say kitty the day before!

a little family background... how many families to do you know that have a roller rink in their family??? well, we have two! crazy i know :) so, every christmas eve we have a big polish (a lot of your questions answered about me :) ) family reunion complete with perogies, borsch, roller skating, and santa. boden went last year, but was too young to try and roller skate (5 month old on wheels? maybe we should have tried it!). so this year it was a must! at first he wasn't too thrilled at all...

watching and taking it all in...

hey dad! uncle robbie is right! everyone does have cars on their feet!

that seemed to do it, because soon after that, he decided he would try.

we made in about halfway around the rink! yeah!!!

what boden really liked best though, was running around the rink floor! at times it was a challenge to keep him out from underneath other people's skates. when santa came though, he had the floor to himself :)