{"id":153,"date":"2008-12-26T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/index.php\/2008\/12\/26\/winkler-family-christmas\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T20:46:16","slug":"winkler-family-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/2008\/12\/winkler-family-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Winkler Family Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winklerworldonline.com\/babyblog\/uploaded_images\/Sledding-Collage-738594.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winklerworldonline.com\/babyblog\/uploaded_images\/Sledding-Collage-738590.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s been a joyful season, and really a Christmas <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">week<\/span> for us here.  Monday before Christmas Grandma and the newly named &#8220;Grandpapa&#8221; came down for a present preview and to take Alexander on his very first sledding run!  Mama was sick so she wasn&#8217;t able to go, but Grandma took some pictures for us of the momentus occasion.  Alexander wasn&#8217;t too fond of the snow in his face, especially at the stop at the bottom of the hill, and being a little speed-freak it surprised us that he didn&#8217;t have more fun, but he got a good three or four runs in before the crew headed back home for some warm-up time.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he&#8217;s certainly been enjoying some very special presents that Grandma and Grandpapa brought down- a very fun little &#8216;tent&#8217;\/workshop, his GeoTrax train and airplane and some more people, church, park &amp; cafe from the MainStreet village set including his favorite, the &#8220;bide &amp; goom.&#8221;  David has reluctantly accepted that fact that he has had to relinquish the main nook area in his newly refinished basement to Alexander&#8217;s toy multiplication.  But now, more than ever, Alexander loves to play in the basement, hopping from toy to toy.  Oh what fun!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winklerworldonline.com\/babyblog\/uploaded_images\/Christmas1Collage-748070.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 143px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winklerworldonline.com\/babyblog\/uploaded_images\/Christmas1Collage-748066.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For Christmas day, we drove up to Brian and Renee&#8217;s in Spring Lake for <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">le grand evenement<\/span> with Nana and Oma as well.  It was fun to be with family and see all Renee&#8217;s fun and festive Christmas decor.  The tree was piled high with presents, and a festive table set for lots of soup, sandwiches, and yummy sweets.  It was fun to exchange presents and celebrate the day with family.  Though Mama was barely recovering from a nasty fever, and Alexander was a bit buzzed from the fray, he opened a couple presents and was happy to play with his toys away from the hubbub, to return to opening after the main event was over and things were a bit quiteted down.  We took a lot of pictures and have posted a few here but you can find more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/winklerworld\/sets\/72157612128308323\/\" target=new>flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winklerworldonline.com\/babyblog\/uploaded_images\/Christmas3Collage-791030.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 143px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winklerworldonline.com\/babyblog\/uploaded_images\/Christmas3Collage-791025.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a joyful season, and really a Christmas week for us here. Monday before Christmas Grandma and the newly named &#8220;Grandpapa&#8221; came down for a present preview and to take Alexander on his very first sledding run! 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