Christmas run-down

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Christmas Eve completely ended at Chez Piggyhawk at 4:30 a.m. Christmas morning was under way at 7 a.m. when Zoe woke up. New rule: No Christmas before the sun is up Anyway, she thought she might go back to sleep in our bed. When I said, “Do you want to go see if Santa came?” she bumped me and said, “Be quiet and go to sleep Mommy.” Heh. I wonder where she gets that. Anyway, Holden started to stir at 7:30 so we got up. It was still dark so I had the video camera going, flipped the light on and Z said, “The colors!” Meaning the tree, which is on the light switch. Then it was “Toys! Look, Mommy. What happened here? Toys!” She headed straight for the play kitchen and the bag of play food.

I taped her & took a couple of photos, then went for Holden.

In the meantime, Hawk decided not to miss this and got up and poured himself a big ol’ Mountain Dew.

Holden went for Dora and Diego, which Zoe had pulled over to the kitchen. He checked them both out and then went for his Zoo Choo-choo. He pushed the button so much that Zoe has the songs memorized now. They helped Daddy set up the Shake N Go Race Track.

Intermittently, they went back to the kitchen.

Zoe loved opening the wrapped gifts and helped a little with Holden’s. Holden was not the least bit interested in anything he couldn’t immediately play with: out of paper, out of box and assembled. So he played kitchen until things were ready for him.

Zoe went wild for (1) Lightning McQueen bubble bath (2) Backyardigans Pirate Ship (3) train set. The train set is the same maker & gauge as the one she got last Christmas so the sets can go together.

So far she’s played with the kitchen & play food (she’s wearing her chef hat), the racetrack (currently playing with that), her Lego-like blocks (hers are Little Mermaid, Holden’s are a helicopter), her Toy Story plushies (they’re in the Groovy Girls car with a couple of the new Groovy Girls and the Groovy Girls dog Gramma Callie sent), and the Backyardigans coloring kit. She opened the Toy Story bath paint b/c I think she thought it was paint-paint.

Santa brought a board game (”Sorry!”) for the family and an Atari Flashback 2.He also filled stockings for everyone. Z & H haven’t opened theirs yet. Santa brought D&D figs for Hawk. I got some knitting books and candy from Santa. Everyone got a sugarplum beside his/her stocking.

For Hawk, I got steel gaming dice (watch out D&D buds), fancy-ass LL Bean slippers, a cold souldering gun, some books (including the celebrity Playbook book) and the new iPod mini. For me, Hawk got some CDs, some DVDs (including “Rollergirls” — yes!), some books and a lovely necklace I haven’t yet taken a photo of. It’s very simple: both of the kids’ birthstones, one over the other, on a gold chain. He had it made, y’all. Between that & the Playboy book, we may be able to overcome the power of The Sweater.

Speaking of which…

Flora did not quite trump The Sweater but she got me a sweatshirt w/ a glittery snowflake on it (it’s pink) and an argyle sweater w/ a faux shirt underneath. Now that I may have been able to pull of b/c I like the colors & I have one of those “faux shirt sweater” things. It is however not only a size L but a size L petite. Petite. I am 5′7″ tall. Also it is so thin that holding it up you can see hrough both layers of it. So on me it would be indecent. Maybe I’ll keep it. Of course neither can be returned to any store.

For Hawk, she got him a long sleeved dress shirt: blue ginham checks. Now I have told her repeatedly: (1) do not buy him dress clothes, as he takes a size tall and only buys his shirts from Land’s End and (2) don’t get anything w/ a pattern b/c it can give him a migraine. So, yeah. She bought him a

nightmare in the form of a dress shirt. And as he said, it’s not from JCP either so now we can’t even get a gift card for it. At least before we could return her ridiculous crap and get gift cards (b/c there were no gift receipts). The stuff for the kids is from JCP but is cute so I’ll be keeping that.

From their friends Rhi & Bran (offspring of S&S), Z & H got a game, a “circus truck” (Z is currently opening that) and some way cute clothes. I got my favorite chocolate (dark flaky Choxie truffles) and some yummy-smelling stuff, including bath pearls, which I had looked for when we visited Wal-Mart last weekend b/c I didn’t know where to find any. Hawk got a gift card, with which he is inordinately pleased. I believe Hawk gave S A gift card as well. I gave S a knitting starter set. She said she’d wanted to learn when she saw me knitting once. I got her a copy of Stitch N Bitch, a couple of non-wool yarns (didn’t know if she might be allergic) that match, size 10 bamboo needles, a stitch counter, stitch markers, a gauge counter, a pendant cutter (don’t you love those? I need another for my embroidery) and a thing of hand cream. As you know, you need hand cream in your knitting kit. I looked everywhere for unscented cream; the best I could do was a Neutrogena.

From Gramma Callie, the kids got Shake & Go cars (they go with the racetrack) and Groovy Girls. For us she made a donation: http://www.southwestindian.com/swindian/sitelite.nsf Niiice.

We haven’t exchanged gifts w/ the Bumblefuck gang. I don’t even remember what we got for them. I had gotten vibrating slippers for Char & then I remembered she had wanted tarot cards so I got her a great starter pack that includes the info for the meaning of each card ON the card. Wish I’d had that. Anyway, I also got her slipper socks (shout out to The Ref) and some Burt’s Bees stuff. Bets is getting a new cordless phone & an Elvis CD. Jed is getting a CD, Scooter is getting a plug-in flashlight (it stores plugged in and if the power goes out, it becomes an automatic nightlight) and K-Dawg is getting a CD. All three of them are also getting gift cards. The Things are getting Toys R Us gift cards and some BrainQuest cards. I was pretty peeved about them breaking our furniture and some of Z&H’s toys plus they’re not doing so well in school so… educational toys! Whoo! Actually Z&H also got BrainQuest cards. I think they’re cool but I’m a geek.

Well I’m off to assemble toys, etc. There’s a special place in hell for the Fisher Price product designers. They want to display the toys a certain way that requires about a dozen wire twistees per package. They’ll spend eternity untwisting them.

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