We had a crazy Christmas morning at our house with the kids. Pops and Susan came to see the kids open their presents, and as they were waiting with the kids at the bottom of the stairs, I ran into the other room to start the video camera, which caused Davey to burst into tears. It was an odd scene to be saying to a kid "come on, see what Santa brought for you!" and to have his response be sobbing. I guess that comes with the territory of the holidays being a bit too exciting for the little ones. The second he saw the Thomas train set that Santa had left for him he was all smiles again. My favorite gift from Santa was the play camping tent with a campfire and plastic hot dogs and marshmallows for the kids to pretend to roast. I sent the same thing to my 2 year-old niece, Violet, who camped more in her first year than I have in my whole life and is a real camping pro. I was so happy to hear she loves it and spent the entire morning in there. I am hoping she can show my city slicker kids how to do the real thing when we are able to get out to Colorado for a visit.
Later in the day we went out to Pops and Susan's house for Christmas dinner and a few more presents. I am still kicking myself for not getting video of the gift opening there, which was a classic Pops. He gave the boys a gift that was four boxes inside each other, each one wrapped. After AJ got through the first two he said "this is sure a lot of boxes!" When he got to the last one, he and Davey squealed to discover Pops had wrapped a donut for each of them. Then it was on to a bag of Chinese handcuffs. The boys had never encountered these before and so Pops asked them which fingers they use to push buttons and to stick their button-pushing fingers into each end. They recently messed up Pops' tv by pushing buttons that we can't figure out to undo, so it was sweet revenge when AJ realized what Pops had tricked him into and called out "hey! my finger is stuck in here!" He is starting his indoctrination into Pops' sense of humor and lifelong lesson to be able to laugh at yourself.
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