Christmas 2016, Part 3
Hello to all.
We have had several guests over the last two weeks. Kathy arrived late last night. We kept the stockings until her arrival, thus our final day of celebration.
This Christmas Xavier finally understood enough to get excited, but he still did not understand the whole stocking deal. That would change when Aunt Chelle arrived and we all had our stocking handed out.
Santa had some problems containing all the gifts to the stockings, so we did have some overflow. Xavier noted this and got suspicious that his stocking might have more stuff than what lay underneath it.
Xavier had much to play with while Mom, Kathy and Chelle fixed breakfast. He had play dough, a Nerf basketball set, a harmonica, card games and a whole plethora of little windup toys and other tiny gizmos.
Xavier had a good Christmas this year!
Reindeer Food
Greetings to all.
One of the problems with trying to accommodate the celebrating of Christmas with so many people whose schedules did not align was trying to keep the magic in it for Xavier. His class in school, unaware of our plight, provided us some help.
One of the school projects he did was create a package to attract Santa's reindeer to our house.
The instructions, in effect, read: spread the food in the lawn and the reindeer will know to land at your house.
We held on to the food during Christmas Break. Tonight, we set the food out as per the instructions. We told Xavier it would help Santa find the house since Christmas Day had passed. We said Santa was going to make a special trip just to fill his stocking.
We waited until the sun had set and dusk had passed. Xavier thought it best to pour out the food in the front garden. So, that is what we did. After spreading the food out, Xavier had a little excitement, then wanted to return to the house.
A few hours later, before I left to pick Xavier's Aunt Kathy up at the airport, I took a rake and roughed up the ground and buried the rolled oat mix (aka Reindeer Food).
My plan tomorrow morning is to go into Xavier's room excited when I wake him. "The reindeer food is gone! Santa came! He found the house. He filled your stocking!"
Christmas 2016, Part 2
Merry Christmas to you all!
Even though we celebrated Christmas last week with Xavier's Grandma Penny and Aunt Chelle, we still had some gifts in reserve for Christmas Day.
The first set came from Xavier's Aunt Kathy. She sent her gifts ahead of her arrival, which should be tomorrow. We called her on the phone so she could at least hear Xavier's excitement at opening his gift from her.
Xavier was excited! He had picked at this present all morning. While we caught up with Aunt Kathy's plans, Xavier sneakily kept undoing parts of the wrapping. Finally we let him have at it. It turned out to be a drill and screw gun combo. He knew exactly what it was and what to do with it. It was a gift that stole the day.
Next was Grandpa Danny's present. Though we could not get Dan on the phone, Xavier still ripped into the large package with the same gusto he did with the drill.
Xavier had not seen Lincoln Logs before. He had no idea what to do with them. It was Dad to the rescue. We opened the box and built a house.
Xavier knocked the house over. Then we built a second. This time, Xavier got engaged. He wanted to put the doors and windows in. Then, upon getting the last window in, Winter Storm Xavier demolished the house.
Now, we build houses that form tunnels for Hot Wheels track and garages for Hot Wheels cars.