Christmas Presents

M was spoiled this Christmas. Big surprise :-) The picture above is M playing in his new ball tent today. I might regret putting the tent up as I suspect the balls will not stay inside it but he's having so much fun it doesn't matter.

I'll give a brief synopsis of M's Christmas Eve and Christmas Day:

Christmas Eve was spent with my family, mom, Grandma, my sister and her husband. There was a lovely table with munchies that was the perfect height for M. Apparently there was some trouble getting the table higher so they gave up and my optimistic sister said "M won't try and take the food". M took the food. He tried to snatch food and put his half eaten food back most of the evening.  Bet the table won't be that low ever again. Mreceived some great presents that he adored. They all make noise and he had great fun ripping off the wrapping paper. His auntie did a wonderful job of helping him and he enjoyed the whole process.

Christmas Day was spent with Glenn's family at his sister's house. With 3 children, one who was just learning about presents and two who were really hyped up about presents, it was wrapping paper mayhem. Again M got great presents and most of them make noise. My favorite present was his bear from Grandpa. All the kids received one in a different colour. It's a forever kind of bear and when he's older I hope he'll understand the significance behind that teddy bear. For now, he just likes to hug and kiss it, so maybe, somehow, he does understand what his bear really means.

Today M spent the day helping me sort his bags of toys. He was a lot of help. He dragged his Elmo doll all over the house. Elmo spent most of the day saying "Elmo fell down, can you help Elmo stand up?" Once Elmo was standing he would say "Thank you, you're Elmo's best friend" Then Mwould climb on his fire truck and roll around the living room. He had to have his fire hat on though and if he didn't he would run around until he found it and then climb back on the truck. He then proceeded to press every button, making it sing while the horn and siren were going off. After the fire truck he would run to his couch with his bears and sit for a few minutes, then he was off and running again to the stool and desk that I spent half the morning putting together. In my wisdom I had put his crayons and singing sketch pad on the desk so he sat and drew on it. Did I mention it was a singing sketch pad? When he was finished there, he grabbed his drumsticks and banged on his electronic drums. The drums have buttons to push which make different kinds of music and it has five drum pads for different types of drum set sounds. Is anyone seeing a pattern to these toys? I think we must have unknowingly bought a lot of noisy toys for people over the years and this is just a little karma payback.

In order to end the noise I set up the ball tent. It was really desperation on my part. I was hoping he would have so much fun playing in it that he would temporarily forget about all the noisy toys. It worked pretty darn well and he played in the tent for over half an hour which means I had half an hour of no noisy toys. I have now turned all the toys off except for his fire truck so that we may enjoy our evening and hear the hockey game. M has not noticed yet and since it's almost bedtime I think I'm safe until morning.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I know ours was full of laughter, tears, hugs and kisses. That's just the way I like it.