…for the first time in about 35 years to our family. See, Santa Claus visited Daddy and Uncle Bucky (Daddy’s cousin) in 1972 and again in 1974. Since Daddy and Uncle Bucky were getting older, Santa decided to visit many other kids over the past 35 years.
Well, this year was the first time Santa had a chance to visit Connor personally. Of course he stopped in on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents, but he also stopped by Grandma’s house to deliver Connor, Uncle Danny, and Grandma some presents. WOW! That was great. Daddy had to run out to the store so he didn’t get to see Santa but everyone told him all about it.
Santa visits Daddy and Uncle Bucky in 1972:
Santa visits Daddy and Uncle Bucky in 1974:
And what everyone has been waiting to see…Santa visits Connor in 2009:
Connor’s room has not seen much use other than for sleeping and changing his diaper and clothes. The reason is simple, it is upstairs and his toys are downstairs. Well, that sort of changed this evening.
Connor received a table a chair set from Santa and when asked if if he wanted it upstairs or downstairs he said, “Upstairs.” So we took 3 of the 4 chairs upstairs with the table. The 4th chair was left downstairs with his laptop in Connor’s Office. We also took his Hot Wheels and garage up there as well.
After dinner, he wanted Mommy and Daddy to go upstairs to play with him. So, we all went upstairs….
He was a proud and “grown up” little boy. He told Mommy to “Sit down Mommy” (Daddy taught him how to say this earlier in the day when he kept patting on the ground to have me sit down. I told him then, “Sit down Daddy.”) It is really amazing how quickly he is learning and verbalizing things now.
I was already sitting down, so he then shut his door to his room as if to say it was his room and we were not leaving anytime soon (and he was right about that). We played with his Hot Wheels and his new alphabet toy Santa left at Brenna’s house for him. Next he took all of his stuffed animals and put them in his crib. Then he got all of his “burp cloths” (Connor’s favorite “blanket(s)”) and put them in the crib with his stuffed animals. He then told Mommy to shut the overhead light off (a little lamp was still on). He said, “Night. Night.” I guess he wanted to make sure each of his stuffed animals had a burp cloth to sleep with and that is why he through all of them in the crib.
We were in there for about 45 minutes and it was getting close for Connor’s bedtime (and mine, too). So I asked, “Do you want to go to bed?” He said, “No” but then preceded to get all of his burp clothes out of the crib (by pulling them through the slats) and piling them up where Mommy and Daddy were laying on the floor. Then he put his head down and laid down.
We took him downstairs for a snack and then he went back upstairs for bed (in his crib).
That was cool to see how he was using his imagination in his room!
We had pushed the coffee table aside in the Living Room/Office so we could open Christmas presents yesterday. One of Connor’s new presents was a toy laptop. He has setup shop in Mommy’s office by pulling over one of his new chairs to the coffee table and putting the laptop on the coffee table. He sits in the chair, opens up the laptop, and begins to type on it. When he is done, he puts the laptop in the same location we put Mommy’s laptop when it is not “mobile” any longer.
When he sees us on the laptop at Mommy’s desk, he goes over to his desk (the coffee table) and starts working on his laptop…
…his Go Diego Go rolling backpack. Mimi and Grandpa said that Santa dropped this off at their house for Connor and told them it was for him to use when he spends the night at their house.
Thank you Santa!
He has been rolling it around the house all morning!
