It's Almost Here!

I think the fact that Christmas is just a few days away, is really starting to sink in around here. In fact, hot cocoa has been on the dessert menu just about every night this week, we have made cookies twice, and Delanie has taken up the responsibility of making sure the Christmas tree and lights are lit up on time this past week. We have also watched the Grinch, Christmas Vacation (sans the kids), and Elf. I have also been burning a Christmas candle everyday this week from breakfast through dinner and until I go to bed...the house smells WONDERFUL. I think the thing I have been loving the most though, is watching the kids play "Christmas Morning."

Once the Dora couch (aka: the sick couch) or either one of the couches in the living room, is properly made up with blankets, pillows, and stuffed animals, the kids nuzzle in. Pax of course wants to make sure the lights are off...and then on...then off (for good that last time). Then Delanie exclaims "Time to go to bed!"

They close their eyes for about 30 seconds (Pax will sometimes throw in a fake snore), and then WOALA it's morning! Delanie let's Pax know, "Pax it's time to wake up! It's Christmas morning! We have to see if Santa has been here" Then they hunt around the house trying to see if they can find out if Santa has come.

Pax went around surveying everyone in the house tonight during his hunt, "Are you Santa?" He even asked Gracie, our dog. "Gracie (with a lisp), are you Santa?" Gracie replied with a few shifts of her eyebrows and a look of, "Are you seriously talking to me?"

After some searching is done, Delanie calls it done "Paxi-Lou-Who (as in Cindy-Lou-Who from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas)! Time for bed! It's almost time for Christmas!" and the game starts all over again...and again...and again.

Sometimes it changes up a bit...they will listen for sleigh bells or they will pretend to give/receive gifts...or Pax will ruin the night-time atmosphere by flipping the light off and on and off and on and off...but that is the gist of the game.

It really doesn't take much for my kids. They are easily amused at times.

I, for one, must be amused easily as well because I just sit back and watch this game played over and over, and I have yet to tire of it.

We'll see how long I say that after Christmas is over.