Christmas Posting
In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m trying to keep up the rate of one posting for every day of my holiday break. I’m going for quantity over quality. In that vein (vain?)…
Last night I visited the noradsanta.org site several times with the girls to monitor Santa’s progress across Europe. Marissa noticed that the satellite images of the sleigh looked kinda cartoonish. Ooops. Marissa and Katie weren’t dissuaded from leaving cookies for Santa and carrots for the nine reindeer though.
Christmas morning started at 5:25am. Because Chris and I insisted the family sleep until 7am before opening the presents, the girls spent the time dividing the gifts into piles by recipient. Marissa’s favorite gift was a Scooby Doo PC game, so she disappeared down to the basement. Katie’s favorite present was an Animal Planet Veterinary Clinic and she would get very upset when anyone else tried to hog it.
Two-year-old Claire’s favorite present was a McDonald’s drive through stand. Gotta teach them to aim high for future employment possibilities. She would hand me plastic fries through the plastic swing out doors and I would pretend to eat them, then I would throw the food in the plastic trash receptacle. The backside of the trash bin was also the food storage section for the other side (Gee I hope this is not the case for the real McD’s.). This allowed us to play drive-thru over and over again. Ad naseaum. But eventually I went to take a shower as we were headed to grandma’s for lunch.
As I was shaving and Chris was curling her hair, we could hear a toddler voice alone in the living room yelling to entice anyone: “NUGGG-GETS! NUGGG-GETS! NUGGG-GETS!”