Christmas loot

Yeah, yeah, Jesus is the reason for the season. He and the GDP of the US of A. The kids are happily building Lego sets, but here are the obligatory present-opening photographs.

$100 from Grandma and Grandpa! They have no idea what it can buy.

I-Rex in 3D!

Pineapple corer and apron. I used to work for a living.

She loves this guy on the Interwebs, so why not on paper?

Lego Friends set one of four for Greta!

Wireless headphones I wasn't expecting!

A women's basketball. That's 28.5" circumference for the uninitiated.

The only book he asked for. Make anything with the pieces you already have.

The "something you need" portion of the presents -- matching flannel sheets.

He was kinda pissed he didn't have a stocking.

But he cheered up when he started chasing bows.

Lincoln has already built his 3 mini sets and is starting on the 1,005-piece Kylo Ren command shuttle. Greta has finished her Lego friends car and is now burying her face in either Heidi or Tom Sawyer or Call of the Wild or Journey to the Center of the Earth or Gods of Asgard: Sword of Summer or The Year the Swallows Came Early or Secret Garden or Three Times Lucky.