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Christmas

Christmas I think went well in our house. Jason and I weren't up too late wrapping anything and Daniel doesn't really wake up too early so it was nice. I didn't wrap all the books I got Daniel so when he first saw the tree and presents he just wanted to look at the truck books that he got. After about ten minutes we convinced him to look at something else.


Then we put all these new cars for him in his stocking and encouraged him to pull them out. Jason had wrapped one thing that was in the top of the stocking and Daniel pulled it out, looked at it carefully, threw it on the ground and then went back to the books. I pulled out the "sally" car from CARS and then the hunt in the stocking for more cares began.


We had him stop every few minutes and open some more presents. After a lot of not interesting things we had him open his new Fisher Price Air Plane. He of course assumed that it was for transporting all of his new cars and his new trains.


So now he just goes around with his new cars, doesn't want to play with the "old" cars,and he just puts all of them in his airplane and flies it around the room or as he says, "walks on the ground."

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Megan said…
He got MORE cars?! Haha. Kidding. I am sure Anna will love to steal them from him, mind you it will be the 2 he is holding and not the billion all around them. Ah kids. Gotta love it. Glad you guys had a nice Christmas!

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