We had a great Christmas. JJ got a stuffed elephant as big as he is. He immediately started a wrestling match with it and has been dragging it around the house and sleeping with it every night. He also got a slightly smaller stuffed elephant from his brother which also gets dragged around, bringing the total number of elephants he sleeps with up to five.
Ian got the game Battleship which he plays at Grandma Stevens' all the time. "Oh, thank you, Mommy. This is just what I wanted. I LOVE Battleship. Did you know that I would love it?" (he gets the effusive praise thing from his father).
Also, courtesy of the Grandparents, we have several new cars of varying shapes and sizes. Mostly characters from the movie "Cars." To be fair, we had quite a few to begin with. We now duplicates of some characters, two Maters, two Fillmores, and five (yes, FIVE) cars shaped like Lightening McQueen. The best part is, they are all slightly different. One is "dusty Lightening" one is "clean Lightening" one is "Lightening with bugs in his teeth" and so on and so on. It may seem like a lot, but they play with ALL of them EVERY day. (I aught to know, I make them clean them up every day.) So all in all, they are getting a lot of use out of their Christmas toys - which is what we were hoping for.
John just laughs at me when he sees how excited I get over the toys we buy the kids. But it all depends on how you look at it. Where they see a new game, I see an uninterrupted phone call or two; they see cars, I see five extra minutes to get ready in the morning - I might even get to shave my legs, naturally I'm excited.
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