Happy Boxing Day!
I’m not British, so I don’t exactly know what a Boxing Day is. Punching each other after being on best behavior for Christmas?
All I know is I finally get to go see Harry Potter! Elsa won’t eat real food and she cries if anyone holds her other than me so I am very, very hesitant to leave her with a sitter (more for the sitter’s sake than her own). Mike and I would have loved to go together, but sometimes things just don’t work out. This morning Mike and I invented a dice game to see who would get to go to the movie today and who gets to go tomorrow. I won! Why didn’t we just flip a coin? Because we had a dice handy, I guess.
Only problem is the movie doesn’t start until 6:30. I won’t be home until super late, but I guess that’s ok. We’ll see what I say tomorrow when it’s Mike’s turn to be out that late.
We had a pretty fun Christmas, though I threatened to take away all of Erik’s Christmas gifts yesterday. He got the two things he asked for the most (caster scooter and Wii Lego Harry Potter) but he wasn’t happy. He wanted some Lego Road Trip thing (first I ever heard of it. I don’t even know what it is) so was sad. So damn frustrating.
After Christmas dinner we always play a really fun present stealing game with lots of little tiny gifts. One of the gifts was a fancy brownie mix that came with a short little wooden spoon. At the end of the game it was mine and Erik asked me for the spoon. He’s been hauling that spoon around every where, thanking me for it and telling me it is the best Christmas present he received. Sometimes I wonder what’s wrong with that kid’s brain.
Here’s a few pictures. Click through if you really want to see millions of pictures of my kids. Ha! Actually, I am trying to be more selective. I even did the unthinkable and deleted pictures if they were blurry or less than complimentary or duplicates that just were a smidgen less desirable than the other duplicate. After years of parenting I think I have figured out that we don’t need 100 pictures of the same moment. I just need a few pictures for a great photo book and it will be easier if I edit down as I go instead of trying to figure it out a year from now. I found some old fashioned printed photo albums from when Erik was a baby the other day and realized that it was insane to have so many pictures of the exact same thing. I also realized that children age you fast. Mike and I looked so young! And it was only six years ago. Is it already time for a face-lift?
