It's exactly 6 months until Christmas, and our little guy decided tonight to start his letter to Santa!
It took him several tries, because, well, the "rules have changed now...you're going to be in 2nd grade in 62 days". He started with "Dear Santa, I want..."
So, we let him know that it is not nice to start letters with "I want" for anything. Be polite, interesting, ask about something you want to know about, or something that interests the other person. So he tried again, and had to go back. Not without a little fussing, it seems that he had already made 7 tries so far with the latest edition he gave us. Back to the drawing board, and then next he came back with "Dear Santa, I think Mommy wants a Barby" and more about how are the reindeer and phonetic spellings for how he's putting out carrots for them. Then another letter to Santa for Papa, asking for a paint gun for him. Mind you, all of these requests are on the drawing paper from his easel, pulled out long and folded.
When it was time for bed, I had to laugh when I entered his room. You could see where he had been sitting on the floor in the middle of the room, with all the papers, pens, and discards all around him in a circle. The camera is in the car, so it'll have to wait till the morning, but that was amusing for me. Considering that he is a bonafide neat freak, it's fun to see him in an artistic mode where the neatness is forfeited for the moment.
And what does Chris want from Santa? Oh, not much, just: a Playstation 3 and games to go with it, Pokemon game for his DS system, and both a Buzz Lightyear and Woody figures from the new Toy Story 3. He recently saw the 1 and 2 versions of the movie, so he's anxious to see #3. He doesn't usually ask us for toys, and usually finds a few favorites to play with, and is easy to deal with for sharing with his cousins. In fact, in the almost 7 years he's been with us, we can count on our hands the number of times he's ever asked us for specific toys.
But now the rules have changed for Santa. We almost feel guilty in advance about "Santa" except I have to say that I will Aways Believe in Santa, so we'll help him transition when the time comes. In the meantime, he'll have to practice his letter-writing techniques, since he's insisting on starting his list exactly 6 months early. He did take his best version and post it on the wall in our living room, so we see it each time we pass by to our bedroom...now that is funny to me. Not so subtle, but funny!
Now, about the movies. Sigh. We "used" to go to the movies in Albuquerque on a regular basis. See, there's a "dollar movie" theater there where you can see new movies that have been out for about 6 months up on the big screen for a whopping $1 to $1.50 per person! The theater is clean, popcorn is regular priced but good, and it was convenient. Now, where we live not...not so much. The theater is old, sometimes clean, not open during the week during the school year, and pricey. Sorry, but not going to pay $50 for 3 of us to go to the movies a couple of times a month under these conditions. So we don't go, we are now on the cycle where movies we haven't seen are not hitting the DVDs and Netflix.
But today...we offered to Chris to take him to the movies to see Toy Story 3 in LIEU of going to see his little cousins in No. VA tomorrow. He said, "no thanks. I want to go play with my cousins." Now, that might have been mean to make him decide, but we already knew the answer, he wasn't about to miss going to see his girl, Skye! She is turning 3 this month, and is, hands down, his favorite! He's been saving a barbie doll for her from our toy box for almost 2 years now, since we forgot to take it to her the last time. On the Wii, he created an avatar for her. He made her "little" because she's just a little girl. Whenever we play baseball, well, there goes Skye! He hasn't made an avatar for anyone else, just her. Today, when we went shopping for her birthday present, he knew he wanted to get her something pink, her favorite color. He found a pink etch-a-sketch, and that was the end of searching. I tried to get him to look at other options, and he was determined that she would love the etch-a-sketch. Well, who wouldn't? And a pink one! On the way home from the store, he did suggest that we go to the movies tonight, since we didn't have time tomorrow. How considerate, to be thinking of alternatives. Maybe we'll drive to one of the malls next week and attend a matinee. In the air conditioning, because I gotta tell you, it's been HOT this month!
In the meantime, I have to go finish cutting cucumbers for refrigerator pickles for a bbq tomorrow at his cousin's house. I'm making homemade hamburger rolls for the first time for this set of relatives, so that will be fun. Mike is marinating baby back ribs, and has already made his own NC-style bbq sauce, which is Great! The folks who will be attending are a lot of fun, so we're looking forward to the day. Gonna drive up in the am and then plan to return at night.
And now, I'll try to get up early enough to take a picture of Chris' room before he cleans it up.
Happy Summer 2010
May it be awesome for you and for all of us!
It took him several tries, because, well, the "rules have changed now...you're going to be in 2nd grade in 62 days". He started with "Dear Santa, I want..."
So, we let him know that it is not nice to start letters with "I want" for anything. Be polite, interesting, ask about something you want to know about, or something that interests the other person. So he tried again, and had to go back. Not without a little fussing, it seems that he had already made 7 tries so far with the latest edition he gave us. Back to the drawing board, and then next he came back with "Dear Santa, I think Mommy wants a Barby" and more about how are the reindeer and phonetic spellings for how he's putting out carrots for them. Then another letter to Santa for Papa, asking for a paint gun for him. Mind you, all of these requests are on the drawing paper from his easel, pulled out long and folded.
When it was time for bed, I had to laugh when I entered his room. You could see where he had been sitting on the floor in the middle of the room, with all the papers, pens, and discards all around him in a circle. The camera is in the car, so it'll have to wait till the morning, but that was amusing for me. Considering that he is a bonafide neat freak, it's fun to see him in an artistic mode where the neatness is forfeited for the moment.
And what does Chris want from Santa? Oh, not much, just: a Playstation 3 and games to go with it, Pokemon game for his DS system, and both a Buzz Lightyear and Woody figures from the new Toy Story 3. He recently saw the 1 and 2 versions of the movie, so he's anxious to see #3. He doesn't usually ask us for toys, and usually finds a few favorites to play with, and is easy to deal with for sharing with his cousins. In fact, in the almost 7 years he's been with us, we can count on our hands the number of times he's ever asked us for specific toys.
But now the rules have changed for Santa. We almost feel guilty in advance about "Santa" except I have to say that I will Aways Believe in Santa, so we'll help him transition when the time comes. In the meantime, he'll have to practice his letter-writing techniques, since he's insisting on starting his list exactly 6 months early. He did take his best version and post it on the wall in our living room, so we see it each time we pass by to our bedroom...now that is funny to me. Not so subtle, but funny!
Now, about the movies. Sigh. We "used" to go to the movies in Albuquerque on a regular basis. See, there's a "dollar movie" theater there where you can see new movies that have been out for about 6 months up on the big screen for a whopping $1 to $1.50 per person! The theater is clean, popcorn is regular priced but good, and it was convenient. Now, where we live not...not so much. The theater is old, sometimes clean, not open during the week during the school year, and pricey. Sorry, but not going to pay $50 for 3 of us to go to the movies a couple of times a month under these conditions. So we don't go, we are now on the cycle where movies we haven't seen are not hitting the DVDs and Netflix.
But today...we offered to Chris to take him to the movies to see Toy Story 3 in LIEU of going to see his little cousins in No. VA tomorrow. He said, "no thanks. I want to go play with my cousins." Now, that might have been mean to make him decide, but we already knew the answer, he wasn't about to miss going to see his girl, Skye! She is turning 3 this month, and is, hands down, his favorite! He's been saving a barbie doll for her from our toy box for almost 2 years now, since we forgot to take it to her the last time. On the Wii, he created an avatar for her. He made her "little" because she's just a little girl. Whenever we play baseball, well, there goes Skye! He hasn't made an avatar for anyone else, just her. Today, when we went shopping for her birthday present, he knew he wanted to get her something pink, her favorite color. He found a pink etch-a-sketch, and that was the end of searching. I tried to get him to look at other options, and he was determined that she would love the etch-a-sketch. Well, who wouldn't? And a pink one! On the way home from the store, he did suggest that we go to the movies tonight, since we didn't have time tomorrow. How considerate, to be thinking of alternatives. Maybe we'll drive to one of the malls next week and attend a matinee. In the air conditioning, because I gotta tell you, it's been HOT this month!
In the meantime, I have to go finish cutting cucumbers for refrigerator pickles for a bbq tomorrow at his cousin's house. I'm making homemade hamburger rolls for the first time for this set of relatives, so that will be fun. Mike is marinating baby back ribs, and has already made his own NC-style bbq sauce, which is Great! The folks who will be attending are a lot of fun, so we're looking forward to the day. Gonna drive up in the am and then plan to return at night.
And now, I'll try to get up early enough to take a picture of Chris' room before he cleans it up.
Happy Summer 2010
May it be awesome for you and for all of us!
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