Christmas

My what a weekend. It was Christmas weekend and Grandma, Grandpa, Sarah & Hannah came to visit for 3 days. There was a lot going on, Sunday afternoon Lisa, Brody & Haleigh stopped by for a few hours and we opened a few gifts with them. Monday (Christmas Eve) we opened a few more presents. Sarah & Hannah got a computer from Grandpa & Grandma so they spent a good share of the afternoon playing and experimenting with it. You were watching them intently as they did pretty good taking turns on the computer. At one time Hannah went upstairs and then a little later when Sarah walked away from the computer you quickly and quietly got off the couch and walked over to the computer and climbed on the chair and started to type away.

You got a Dora tent house that was a bit bigger then we anticipated, but you really had a good time playing in it for the afternoon. That evening we went to church and then came home to soup and more gifts. After the gifts you and the girls wrote letters to Santa and left out cookies & milk. In the morning Santa had left you a note, a stocking full of treats and more gifts under the tree. A few weeks ago, when you saw Santa, you asked for a pink kitty, which was in the last gift you opened. In the afternoon we put together the easel you got and you had a good time drawing on it. Tonight you did not want to go to bed, you just wanted to draw.

After your bath you finally went to your bedroom, but then it still took time to fall asleep. At one time you said, “Papa thanks for bringing me my pink kitty”. I did not remind you that Santa brought the kitty. Then a little later you asked, “Is Smee a pirate?” I said, I think he is, what do you think? You responded “Captain Hook is a pirate, I think Smee is just Smee, and I am Madison”.

Next we got obsessed with the bow on pink kitty. At least 30 times you said, “It is not right” or “It is not perfect, fix it papa, please papa fix it”. This went on for about 25 minutes until you finally fell asleep. Certainly a Christmas to remember.

Birthday

This afternoon when daddy picked you up from school you saw some balloons in front of one of the stores and said, “I like balloons.  It’s my birthday”.  When daddy told you it wasn’t your birthday you said, “It is baby Jesus birthday”.  Daddy asked who baby Jesus mother was and you said, “Mary”.  When he asked about his father you paused for a bit and then yelled, “Bob”.

Disgusting

Tonight while rocking you looked up at the stars on your wall and said, “look at those weird stars, are they disgusting?”  Then you asked “is disgusting a bad word?”

Old woman

Tonight after swimming lessons you had your bath.  You wanted to wash my face and said “I need to wash these whiskers off.”  And then after a long pause you said “Are you turning into an old woman?”

Shellfish

The other day you learned that selfish is when you aren’t willing to share something.  So yesterday you said “Michele is not shellfish and Julie is not shellfish and Ms. Kristin is not shellfish”.

You have been carrying around your little yellow ducky and the purple harmony bear and say “Chicky and Care Bear are best friends”.

Santa

On Saturday morning you had your school program.  Your room sang 13 songs which used bells, actions and sign language.  After the program Santa stopped by to visit.  You sat on Santa’s lap and asked for a pink kitty.

So for Saturday and Sunday you talked about Santa coming to your house to visit on Christmas.  At times it seemed like you might be afraid of him visiting while you slept.  I asked if I should wake you when he comes and you said “no, we can’t do that, we must be asleep when he comes”.

Stupid

You must have learned a new word at school this week, “stupid”. Although to be fair, it could have been on Charlie Brown, since Lucy says, “don’t be stupid Charlie Brown.” We explained that we don’t use that word and that you could use silly instead. So this morning you said, “don’t sit by me stupid”. Hmm, I guess we have some work to do.

Hmm, Interesting

Yesterday, daddy started putting up the Christmas decorations.  You were very excited to put up the tree in your room and put on the ornaments.  But of course you also liked to take the ornaments down to play with them.  When daddy repeated the rules, “once the ornament goes on the tree it stays on the tree, do you understand?”  You replied “Hmm, Interesting”.