Sweet! KidKraft must have people working overtime this weekend, because customer service called this morning to say they're overnighting our missing hardware on Monday. Phew! Hopefully we get everything we need!
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Imagine you're a little kid on Christmas morning. You're excited to see what Santa left for you overnight, and you wake up to.....this. A half assembled mishmash of red boards and screws. See that plethora of required nuts and bolts? Of those, we have one kind of nut and one kind of bolt I'm tired of worrying and blogging about naps. Well, before I let go of the issue for a while, let me just say that Kellan fell asleep again during the dinner hour -- during what should be a nap-free time. So obviously, I still have my work cut out for me in re-establishing a reasonable nap schedule. But for now, I have enough to think about. It just hit me today that Christmas is truly imminent.
And I just have to show you one of my absolute favorites this year, courtesy of my friend Karin. (This is the same Karin that sent me a beautiful bookmark, featured in this previous post.) The photo doesn't really do it justice, of course. The Santa is a pop out (is that the right term? I'm not a scrapper or stamper), his hat is a cut out piece of red paper and his lips and cheeks are delicately filled in with colored pencil. True attention to detail. And to top it off, Karin wrote a simple, sweet, heartfelt note inside. Then I saw the back: It gave me a good chuckle, and made me wonder...was it a subtle reference to the Martha Stewart angel I mentioned earlier? The one I've been struggling to appease all week? Wouldn't today be a lovely day for a nap? Well, just as I thought, Quiet Time was not very quiet yesterday. After the brief glimmer of hope I got last week regarding "Quiet Time", we're back to the same non-napping problem. I toyed with the idea of simply giving up and letting him stay up all day, but then reason came back to me. Last night, he fell asleep on the way home from daycare and didn't wake up until around 8 pm!! Michael did his best to avert this bedtime spoiler -- he put Kellan down in his room with the lights on and repeatedly tried to wake him, to no avail. The kid didn't even eat dinner until 8:30, which is normally lights out! So obviously, the lack of naptime during the day is a problem. I wanted to post something tonight, but it will have to wait. I have been putting off a much needed trip to the grocery store after work because I haven't felt that I've thought through my grocery list. And with all the Christmas related stuff I have on my plate right now, the last thing I want to do is make multiple trips to the grocery store if I don't have to. I think I've resolved my crafty urge, without too much pain on my part. And it was actually pretty fun. Kellan helped me and we had a good time. I've got the greatest pictures of the project but can't post them, since they would reveal what some Reagan Rendezvous blog readers are getting for Christmas. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here! I doubt it will actually stick around, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. Kellan and Santa break the ice (after all, they haven't seen each other for a year!) by knockin' some knuckles This is only the second time we've done the "hey, sit on this stranger's lap and look happy" thing and I'm by all means no expert, but I think this type of experience can go one of two ways. Kinda like, "Oh, okay. You say this is Santa? I think I've heard of this guy. It's cool." Or, "WAAAAHHHHHH!!!" We had to work a bit to coax a smile out of Kellan (unfortunately I only have that photo in a print, non-digital format at the moment), but he had no problems sitting with "Patata." How he gets "Patata" out of "Santa", I'm not really sure. It's awfully cute to hear him say it though, and I'm quite sure he'd sit with the Big Guy any day. |
KellanReagan family ringleader, cuisine connoisseur, and class clown MichaelGraphic design genius, piggyback ride giver & Reagan family tech support ShannonCommander-in-Chef specializing in vegetable disguise, karaoke addict & director of toddler activities EnzoToddler jungle gym, squirrel chaser & official stinkbomber MiaMiss Loudmouth, Reagan welcoming committee director & recovering bulimic Other sites we like:
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