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Well the time is almost hear. Ten days till the day. Mom, Chrissy, Tony's mom and hopefully grand mom are coming to dinner... Christmas night (supplied and cooked by acme).
The tree goes up this Sunday. Since our ornaments are very fragile. I'm planning a "make decorations for the tree day" on Sunday, loaded with construction paper, finger paints and all the fixings to make a winter wonderland. We'll make lots of silly decorations that I'm sure I'll tear up to see years down the line.
This year is very special because Quinn is really into wrapping and boxes. He's starting to understand that the little green square things that he has been playing with for weeks are really chocolate in disguise from some guy named Andy. The look on his face was priceless when that little green wrapper came off and he found a minty treat. Now he wants to unwrap Everything... great :) just in time for Christmas!
My Grand idea for his first "real" Christmas (last year he was way to young) is too buy a toy box and load it with wrapped gifts... this is including two of his favorite activities. Pulling stuff out of boxes and unwrapping. He takes any make shift box he can find like the laundry basket, a cereal box, a shoe, and fills it with his toys then looks inside likes he is surprised to find his toys in there, pulls them out like its a special gift and smiles at us, then throws it across the room and looks in the "box" for the next big surprise only to load it again later with the same surprise. So the toy box idea will be a big hit. I got the toy box from babies r us for about 60 bucks... I kept it simple with a cedar style box as opposed to the many cartoon versions, I figure one day I can just use it for clothes.
Tony has been talking about an idea one of his co-workers mentioned... he wants to buy him a piece of a train set every Christmas as a tradition... his train set will get built up every year. He wants to also buy him a leap frog interactive TV game. Quinn will have his own joy stick and can play learning baby games. This is the beginning of a special bond between father and son... Those damn video games! But it's inevitable that he will be a gamer, and i don't mind as long as the violent ones are not introduced until he is much MUCH older, maybe like 30, 40?
I'm very excited...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The tree goes up this Sunday. Since our ornaments are very fragile. I'm planning a "make decorations for the tree day" on Sunday, loaded with construction paper, finger paints and all the fixings to make a winter wonderland. We'll make lots of silly decorations that I'm sure I'll tear up to see years down the line.
This year is very special because Quinn is really into wrapping and boxes. He's starting to understand that the little green square things that he has been playing with for weeks are really chocolate in disguise from some guy named Andy. The look on his face was priceless when that little green wrapper came off and he found a minty treat. Now he wants to unwrap Everything... great :) just in time for Christmas!
My Grand idea for his first "real" Christmas (last year he was way to young) is too buy a toy box and load it with wrapped gifts... this is including two of his favorite activities. Pulling stuff out of boxes and unwrapping. He takes any make shift box he can find like the laundry basket, a cereal box, a shoe, and fills it with his toys then looks inside likes he is surprised to find his toys in there, pulls them out like its a special gift and smiles at us, then throws it across the room and looks in the "box" for the next big surprise only to load it again later with the same surprise. So the toy box idea will be a big hit. I got the toy box from babies r us for about 60 bucks... I kept it simple with a cedar style box as opposed to the many cartoon versions, I figure one day I can just use it for clothes.
Tony has been talking about an idea one of his co-workers mentioned... he wants to buy him a piece of a train set every Christmas as a tradition... his train set will get built up every year. He wants to also buy him a leap frog interactive TV game. Quinn will have his own joy stick and can play learning baby games. This is the beginning of a special bond between father and son... Those damn video games! But it's inevitable that he will be a gamer, and i don't mind as long as the violent ones are not introduced until he is much MUCH older, maybe like 30, 40?
I'm very excited...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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