Partial Post-Christmas Post

This was basically a continuation of this post, but where you see this come to an end, I wasn’t done yet.  I think Deb called me away to help wrestle kids or something, and that was the end of it.  Never did get back to reporting on Christmas.  Here’s what I was writing, as far as it went:

Speaking of Christmas, next year it will be on a Tuesday, and that ought to make things interesting.

Last year we went to dinner at my sister’s on the 24th, leaving the 25th all our own.  That made it no big deal that Sadie took every waking hour to open everything.

This year on the 25th there was a buffet at my brother’s, which worked out nicely in terms of seeing people and good food.  However, it meant Sadie and Valerie each took three items out of their stockings and opened one present before we had to leave the house.  Once Sadie opened the Play-Doh bucket, containing Play-Doh and a mess of tools, mainly cookie cutters but also an extruder, everything had to stop while she played with it at the table.

We were sure the gift opening would have to continue this morning.

However, after seeing her cousins, the next ones up in age among the first cousins (versus the once removeds, like Julia, and the seconds, like Casey), tear into gifts, Sadie came home with a whole new perspective, aided by my decision to be aggressive.  We managed to get through it, and Deb opened the rest of hers, before bedtime.

After seeing Sadie play with a Magnadoodle toy belonging to Alicia, I wished she had gotten one.  She just loves to draw.  On the other hand, crayons come in multiple colors, which Sadie has a remarkable feel for.  She’ll color on a sheet of paper and what ought to look like scribbles ends up looking deliberate and surprisingly coordinated.  And when she’s done, she’s done, it goes aside as finished work.

Anyway, we also had dinner at my sister’s on the 24th.  Which was great for exchanging gifts, seeing the uncle from Maine who is unnaturally good at buying perfect gifts for people he sees but once or twice a year, and letting the kids worship their older cousins, Brittany and Jalenie, and favorite uncle, Gary.

I Sadie got a rather decent “toy” keyboard, just one of her Coolest Toys Ever, yesterday.  Valerie thinks it’s okay, but at my sister’s house she wanted to play my brother in law’s acoustic guitar.  She launched herself after it as if she knew what it was, and sat entranced while my brother played it.  Like “oh my God he’s making music come out of it, my hero!” Valerie also totally hit it off with her great uncle Roger, in a way I can’t remember seeing a baby or toddler do before.

So there were two days of Christmas, and bustling out of the house to get to other places.  Next year there won’t be a handy, universally guaranteed day off the day before.

Posted by on 12/31 at 11:35 AM

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