Merry Christmas, 2018
Merry Christmas to all!
Yesterday, Xavier grew concerned we would miss Christmas, confusing Christmas Eve, night time and Christmas Day. Fortunately, the Advent chain we built on December 1st helped assuage his concern. It had one link left: Christmas Day.
Xavier grew more excited as the day moved toward evening. At some point he figured we would be opening presents on Christmas Eve.
Instead, we attended church to worship the One whose birth we celebrate.
When we returned home, I told Xavier how as a boy my sister and I would leave Santa a plate of cookies and a glass of milk.
Xavier liked that idea! He prepared a plate of gingerbread cookies and a glass of almond milk (it's all we had in the house). This morning, Xavier found the milk glass empty and a few crumbs on the plate. Under the plate Santa left a thank you note.
The empty glass and plate revved Xavier's excitement to somewhere north of ecstatic.
With Xavier finding gifts wrapped in gold paper which had not been under tree the night before, we let him go for his stockings (he had two).
Shortly after, we called Grandma Penny so she could hear him open her gift: an erector set featuring cams and pulleys.
After, we got Grandpa Danny on the phone. Xavier opened the first of his two gifts. He started out slow in the unwrapping, but as he saw what the package held, he stripped the paper off vivaciously.
The RC truck struck a chord with Xavier, it had to be played with immediately. Grandpa Danny's second gift (a thoughtful bug zoo container which Xavier and I have looked for last summer, but never found) was eclipsed by the need to load the RC truck with batteries.
Next on the phone (Skype worked for us this year), Aunt Kathy sent a soccer ball and some books.
The soccer ball is welcomed; we've been playing with a slightly deflated ball bough at a supermarket.
Aunt Chelle arrived, and all the rest of the gifts, including those brought by Santa, became Xavier's targets.
Santa supplied one of Xavier's favorite movies: Mouse Hunt. Also, a "really big present" of Lego.
It would be Aunt Chelle's gift (so far; we've got guest coming in a few hours) that has won Xavier's heart.
A Lego Minecraft set. Need I type more?
Xavier wanted to build the set immediately, but we said not until the paper mess was cleaned up. Xavier had the room cleared in minutes.
Christ is Born!