Christmas always starts with stockings! For some reason I didn’t buy Matea a stocking when I got Eli a new one last year, so instead she got a brand new fuzzy pink stocking. :) Of course, she had no interest in what was in her stocking, only what was in Eli’s.
Getting our stockings down!
Matea got a hand-felted sheep ornament this year! (not hand-felted by me, but hand-felted nonetheless).
Finding the Skittle candy cane that he kept asking for every time we were in Target = a very happy boy.
Matea put all the things from Mommy’s stocking in the mailbox of her house for some reason.
Moving on to the gifts, Matea had ZERO interest in the gifts. She did not want to open them, touch the paper, nothing. She liked looking at Eli’s presents, but wanted nothing to do with her own until they were completely taken out of the boxes. She would scream and cry and kick the gifts (and throw them if she could). After a few tries of having her open gifts she retreated to the corner behind a big gift and we stopped trying to coax her in to it. Baby girl wanted nothing to do with it! She finally emerged to play with some of Eli’s gifts . . . and to sit on the presents if she could. Crazy girl! :)
I DO NOT LIKE THIS!
What kind of parent foists presents on their kids? :)
Traumatized by presents, Matea is off to hide in the corner.
At least she enjoyed one of her presents – a sheep book.
When she emerged from isolation, she sat on my presents.
Eli was a different story of course. We could barely get him to stop and look at his present before he opened the next one. He got to open most of Matea’s as well, so he was having a good time. He was very excited to get Boom Blox Bash Party for the Wii, and the Hot Wheels Color Shifters Color Blaster set he wanted. The books we got him he wasn’t feeling that much appreciation for at first (though he didn’t say anything, which I was happy about, he just wasn’t that excited). We’ve read The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Stuart Little to him now though and he loves chapter books, so he ended up being glad to get them. And the biggest hit of the day was the new markers which I got them and just kind of wrapped up for fun because I was going to give them to the kids anyway. They were both instantly excited about those! Go figure.
Boom Blox!
Another book . . . great.
Who knew they’d be so excited by markers?!
Mommy fought the crowds on Black Friday to get this for cheap.
Two fun moments for me was when Eli started playing with Matea’s presents, in particular her pink SUV, counting piggybank, and alphabet ball, and Matea sat there playing with Eli’s Bakugan, cars, and books. Both ignoring their own toys and interested in each others! The second memory was of them playing with the color shifting cars together. They would take turns squirting the cars, trade cars, and had a fun time playing – together! Now that’s a true gift for Christmas!
Why play with my toys when yours look so fun!
Peaceful playing – a rare treat!
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