December 19th
Party time at playgroup! The craft for today was decorating gingerbread men cookies with icing, chocolate chips, sprinkles and a candy cane. Surprisingly, the kids were a bit hyper for the rest of the morning!
Liam's was a "keeper" (his words, not mine). Which makes Logan's an "eater" I guess?
My mini knight in shining armour. He traded in his corn on the cob sword for something else.
Finally, Santa arrived. Conveniently, nothing about Santa changed between the work Christmas party and this one. And Liam loved him even more...
Does Santa look a bit surprised that there are kids out there who don't cry when they see him? Liam sat on his lap and had a long heart-to-heart (mostly one-sided) conversation. I forgot to ask Santa what they talked about.... he may not really know! I bet it involved somebody asking for a "kitchen for boys," though. And Santa was SO on the ball! Not only did he (obviously) know that Liam loves orange, and so gave him a gift with a "giant" orange candy cane, but he also knew that Liam broke the necklace (in our house it's used as a hoist) he got at Hallowe'en and gave him a new one. And he gave him a colouring book with a dolphin on the cover, which is Liam's "favourite!" Oh, and a package of crayons with two oranges. After all those coincidences (really!), I almost believe in Santa!
It seems that sitting on Santa's lap was okay, especially with the hat you stole from your brother.
You'll never believe this, but Logan's favourite part was the candy cane!
All in all, a successful morning! None of the kids killed each other and there was no blood, despite double the number of kids and sugar. There was almost a stampede of parents, though, when it became very clear that would all change if we didn't leave NOW!
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