As you may remember, last year he opened one gift and played with it for a long time, and then op0ened another and played with that. We were delighted but surprised that it took him five hours to open seven gifts!
This year, he opened one thing after another until everything he was allowed to open was in front of him. He took a few minutes to savor each gift, but then wanted to see what else there was to see.
Once he had seen everything, he spent several hours playing with his train set, to which Dad had added this year. He loves his Ikea train set, and the new module Dad added this year lets him make elevated track and bridges. Fun!!
Next he spent several hours playing with all of his babies. Mamma helped him to add two new babies (plus extra clothes and blankets and baby bottles) to his "family" this year. He now has five "children". There are, of course, "Baby", whom he got from Mormor, "Scarecrow" ,whom he got from Miss Bon, and "Bob", who came home with Dad from Belgium, as a gift from Mr. Jos and Miss Vivian. This holiday, Adam and Fallon joined the family. (He must be growing up -- as they join the family, the babies names are getting more and more name-like.)
There have been lots of other holiday adventures that I hope to write about later, but right now, I have Christmas Cones to make ... !
(*after a mad dash across town at the last minute for a missing ingredient or two.)
I am always intrigued by seeing the names that kids give to their dolls. My son Arlo used to give dolls names like "Essen" (a random noise that he happened to make) and "Bakshok" when he was a toddler and we asked him what his doll's name was. Later on they got more appropriate names like "Bob." My daughter Kendra, on the other hand, started out with funky names too (and also with a house full of dolls that were already named with names like "Essen" and "Bob"). She's turned out to be a very creative namer. Sometimes she'll give a doll a more common name, like Gracie -- though even that name I'm not sure where she came up with it. Other times she makes up things that sound like beautiful names but which I've never heard before -- things like "Erilissa." (I just made that name up -- I can't remember any of her actual invented names right now -- they are both more beautiful and also more namelike than the one I made up.) The whole process of what names kids choose as they grow just fascinates me.
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