Christmas, that is! We are up to our necks in Christmas activities around here. On Saturday, we had a big Christmas deal up at Levy. It was open to the surrounding community, there were crafts, cookie decorating, a bounce house aaaaaaaand SANTA CLAUSE!!! I was excited for Will to meet the big guy, last year went pretty well, he was more or less indifferent. But this year, our big boy has his own ideas, opinions and particulars. We peeked in from the other side of the room and watched a few of his friends get their pictures made. He really liked that, but when I asked him if he wanted to go see Santa, "no.". After a few failed attempts, we finally just threw him at Santa and the photo was snapped. It wasn't too cute, and I really felt guilty forcing him into it, but...I would do it again ;)
He looooved decorating cookies, for obvious reasons. Ate the entire thing himself too. He also got a turn in the bounce house, they cleared it out and let all the little kids jump for a while. That was great, he didn't really jump, but he ran around a lot which made for some funny staggering collapses.
Needless to say, naptime was very appreciated.
Then that evening, we had our annual white elephant gift exchange party! That is probably my favorite Christmas party to be a part of. It's potluck style, super relaxed and FUN! The gift exchange is the highlight. You know how sometimes at a gift exchange, you go out and get a cute body wash set that costs $10 and you end up getting stuck with used underwear or something? If that happened to you at this party, it would be your own fault! This is a clean out your garage and dig that stuff out of the goodwill type of gift exchange!! We brought a re-gifted diaper bag with a fake dirty diaper in it and a 4 pack of sports trivia books. Somehow, we took home a $10 starbucks giftcard and an Aromatique candle/potpourri set :) The giftcard was a fluke, one of the super generous organizers pitched that in and it was soooo sweet! It's technically John's though.....
Some of the funnier gifts: A VHS tape of some hunting show, crazy outdated computer hardware, a shrub...nothing else too notable, or anything you'd want to take home!!
After the exchange, they decided to fire up the bounce house again since it was already there....I am not sure the guys doing it were totally qualified though. They had a bit of trouble getting it to stay up and when the first batch of kids (older) started jumping, it COLLAPSED! I was holding Will and he was anxiously waiting his turn, and he saw the whole thing. The shriek he let out was blood curdling...So add that to his list of Christmas fears.
Monday night we went caroling with another family to the senior housing next to the church building. We only made 4 stops b/c their houses are so close together, but it was really fun! Will insisted on bringing his new truck and even showed it to a couple seniors, of course they thought it was adorable. But what isn't!
I worked today, and will again on Thursday then it's off to Nanny's!!
My goal for next post, figure out how to add pictures :) Stay tuned!
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