Uno Monster

Mamma and NeeNee created a monster by teaching me Uno. I take great pleasure in having others Draw 2 and Draw 4. Bwaahhaahhaa!

Merry fa la las

What's all this cool broken glass? Can I touch it? Can I see the broken window. 

Merry fa la las

It was so scary finding out that there are bad people that break Daddy's car window to steal things. Why do people do such bad things?

All this after a magical night at the zoo lights.

 

 

Boxing Day

I have Nina a belated present. My illness from last week. So I'm being an angel today, snuggling lots with everyone and telling them how much I love them. 

Merry Christmas Lego edition

Olivia's house completed at 9:45pm Christmas Eve. I could not go to sleep without it finished. 7 bags of Lego. 600 pieces. Mamma only helped me at the end.

Kate's water scooter completed before Mamma and Daddy wake up. 

Stephanie's soccer field completed by 11:00am, quickly proceeded by Mia's bakery.

Lego is awesome! And now that I've built all of it, I can play with it and make more stuff with my old Lego.

God Jul timeline continued

 

 

12:30pm. Daddy finish making train table

1:00pm. Lunch. Ewan eats none of Smorgasbord. Eats sandwich and grapes instead.

1:30pm. Resume gifts. Much more relaxed pace. Children play between opening gifts.

3:00pm. Opening concludes with huge thank yous to Santa and "we are lucky birds."

play and eating and merriment until very late for all. 

God Jul!

God Jul timeline

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6:45am Wake up. Go cuddle NeeNee
7:30am Go downstairs. Scream uncontrollably.
7:35am Stockings
7:45am Breakfast. Get dressed.
8:00am Tantrum to open Christmas presents
8:05am Mamma gives in. Presents opened at frenetic pace.
9:30am Come to big present. Pause gifts to play with big presents. Adults shower. Daddy putting together train table for over an hour. Nina working on Lego Friends house. Only partially complete.
10:30am Lie down exhausted.

Still have a mountain of presents, smorgasbord and the rest of the day. Phew.

Note to my future self

In case I need gift ideas in the future.

Annual visit to Jungle Jim's

Pottying in public is always good for a laugh.

Santa sighting

We're ready. Wiki says Santa only comes when we're sleeping, but hopefully we'll catch him in the act.

Waiting for NeeNee

While waiting for NeeNee to arrive we checked out the holiday trains.

Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to Daddy... A flare up of ulcerative colitis.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... Two letters mailed to ooold laaadies.

On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to Mamma.... Three loads of laundry and single parent responsibilities.

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to Daddy... Four pills that didn't help his UC.

On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.... Five songs on my new Karaoke.

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to Daddy.... Six blood draws and a CAT scan for his UC.

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to Daddy.... A new Mazda 6 and debt for perpetuity.

On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to Ewan... Eight crazy pills and a side of hysteries. 

On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... Ninety degree weather (almost) and ability to wear short sleeves. 

... to be continued.

Togetherness

While reading a riddle about putting a male in the mail, where a little girl mails her brother to her cousin.

e: I don't want to go in the mail.
M: Oh, I don't want that either. I want you right here with me.
e: But not forever.
M: Why not?
e: Because how will I go to the potty?

It all comes back to animals

e: Mamma, I wish our car was a construction car.
M: Why's that?
e: Because then we could build stuff.
M: What do you want to build?
e: A rainbow zoo with rainbow animals in it.

Feeling better

Thanks for asking.

Karaoke what?!

My after school program gave me karaoke machine for Christmas! What?! That's awesome!

Sickness is yuck

e: I don't want to be sick. This is not what I wanted to happen.

Sickness

Good thing I'm such a big boy. I know to sip water, ask for toast, and throw up in a bowl all by myself. Good thing too. Because Daddy is sick too, and Mamma has a flat tire on her car. Just doing my part to help out. 

Gift giving

I bought Ewan something for Christmas. And wrapped it all by myself with custom made paper. 

Drummer

Eating while drumming. I need more hands.

Science is real!

I want to be a scientist when I grow up. Good thing I'm already a scientist. Hot water makes these crystal balls grow fast. Cold water makes then grow slow. Sparkling water helps them float. And Coke is not see through. Got my scientist notebook out and my hypotheses drafted. Results forthcoming.

Now it's really Christmas time

 

 

 

 

 

We went to IKEA for their Swedish dinner, and we were SSSSOOOO excited all day. We were grinning, and hugging Mamma and Daddy, and telling everyone where we were going. We get to go to have meatballs and dessert (all the other food is still icky, not sure why Mamma and Daddy go back for seconds), and listen to Swedish singing, and play in Smaland. THE. BEST. DAY. EVER.

I guess we bleed blue and yellow. 

Heaven does exist

e: I can see Heaven!

M: Where?

e: It's far away.

M: Where?

e: It's by California. 

Beer

Beer isn't just something Mamma and Daddy drink. It's something they use to measure how much snow we get.