It’s 8:30 AM, and we’re having a little lull in the activity. Kai and Shen are working their stocking loot, Ben is still trying to sleep in, and we’re waiting for Cam and Brittni to get here so I thought I’d blog a bit.
The Littles were at their wits end by bedtime last night but they both survived the anxious waiting and passed out in their bed by 8::00 PM.
Tina and I had our traditional Christmas Eve drinking Bailey’s, watching Scrooged, and performing surrogate Elf work wrapping presents and prepping the tree. Here’s how it looked when we were done...
We made it to bed by 1:30 AM and we didn’t hear The Littles stir until 6:30. They managed to actually stay in their room until almost 7:00 before venturing out to see if Santa had come.
We let them open their stockings and a couple presents while we’re waiting for The Big Ones. Kai’s main items he was expecting from Santa this year were a Superman Toy and Spiderman Toy. It’s funny how kids catch on to stuff like this. He has virtually no access to media content involving these characters. We have no super-hero toys, videos, etc., and still, this is what he wants. We looked at the options hanging from the pegs down the Black & Flames toy isle and couldn’t find anything that was half-way appropriate in terms of action-figures. After several outings we finally came to what we hoped would be a reasonable compromise: Superman jammies and Spiderman Mr. PotatoHeads.
Here are our two little Supermen:
We watched them “fly” multiple laps around the house as we waited for the coffee to brew. I think it’s going to be a Two Pot Morning!
It started warming up a little bit around here yesterday - it hit the low 30’s and the snow that came down started having a little rain mixed with it. This made the roads pretty sloppy, but at least it brought about a suitable building consistency to the fine dry powder that’s been piling up around here and Tina and the boys were able to finally get a snowman put together. So this guy spent the night standing out in the backyard:
Our good friend Alex made us a “Snowman Kit” years ago so this guy seems like an old friend who has stopped back by for his annual visit. And while the weatherman isn’t predicting a very long life for him, it’s snowing pretty good outside this morning and he seems pretty pleased to have an actual White Christmas!
Well, Ben just wandered out and we’re putting the breakfast casserole in the oven. Cam and Brittni should be here soon so I’m posting this now and will try to get some updates online later in the day...
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