Oh what fun it is to ride from house to house on Christmas day!
Actually, Jackson did quite well this year. After an initial snafu.
The boys get gifts from so many relatives that I generally let them open packages as they come during the holiday season. This year, the first package arrived from Auntie Joy in Texas. She sent these very cool snap together dinosaurs for Cal, which he promptly sat down and played with for an hour ;). Jackson got a Melissa & Doug instrument set, which was actually perfect for him (and he now adores); but when it came it was another story. Jackson had decided he wanted Whack a Mole Tower for Christmas [an incredibly annoying game], when the package came from Joy, I think he must have expected it to be Whack a Mole Tower and was very upset that it wasn't. So, began the madness!
My dad had actually bought this game for him, but we hadn't gotten together with them yet. There are times that Jackson understands delayed gratification (waiting) and there are times he's not standing for it. 'Bet you can guess how it went down with Whack a Mole Tower...Thank goodness my dad and his wife were willing to finagle schedules to allow my kids to open their gifts earlier than planned. I just knew if he didn't get this game on Christmas morning, we'd all be miserable until he did...
He opened the game and his response was typical for him (seemingly less than excited). He was even willing to share it with Uncle Darren and Uncle Zack and waited for his turn. I'm thinking he was just holding it all in until we got home. He loves the game and plays it incessantly whacking the mallet and chanting "whack a mole tower, [bam!] whack a mole tower" between each whack. He and Callahan are enjoying it and I'm sure every kid that comes over will take a whack...
That was a few days before Christmas. Christmas morning was fun. We really enjoy the whole Santa gimmick as both boys understand. It's so much more fun now that Jackson 'gets' it'. We're just having trouble explaining that Santa comes just one night a year.
The next challenge will be explaining he has to go back to school...
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