Thursday, December 23, 2010

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

Fletcher pretends to eat the picture of Christmas cookies that was hidden behind door #1 in his advent calendar, sent to him by his Tante Ruth and Uncle Ken.

He was way more interested in playing with the blue twine and sticks than in picking out a Christmas tree.


But Christmas lights? Okay, those are fun.

Really, really fun.
Fletcher enjoys his hot cocoa very much. - but he prefers it served at room temperature, with an ice cube.

He supervised while Dallas hung up a sock (the biggest we could find) for St. Nicholas.

 His favorite gift in his "stocking" was the blown glass ornament shaped like a school bus.



A glittery, sparkly school bus.



 There was about five minutes of delighted play before the expected tragedy stuck.
 Luckily, St. Nicholas had informed me that replacement ornaments could be had
for $2.50 at World Market, so we stocked up on them later that afternoon. We're down to two.

 Marzipan pigs!
 Fletcher tries a pig.
 Marzipan pigs - not popular with two-year-olds, as it turns out. Happily, they are very popular with certain mothers of two-year-olds.

 Far more successful than marzipan: paint tubes, fuzzy stickers....



...a book about chickens...
 And trains!
And a gingerbread man!  Not pictured: the harmonica that set off the current craze among local toddlers.

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