Well, Ike was woken up first thing yesterday by Jake. "Daddy, you're fired. I hired Mommy."
See, Jake's room is now a store. It has an Open/Closed Sign (it's closed on Mondays), store hours and toys with price tags. It has a "counter" (which also poses as the Legos storage bin). Under the store hours, Jake has written, "Jake's Store. I am a Kid." Very cute...
Anyway, because I decorated the house for Christmas a little Saturday night after Jake went to bed, he woke up Sunday morning and decided I'd do a better job than Daddy working at the store. However, I believe Ike has been rehired, as while I was napping yesterday, he and Jake made a very cool snowman.
Oh, speaking of that snowman...Only in this house would the snowman be holding a carrot. Every snowman has carrots, you say? Yes, but would everyone else have a snowman whose carrot IS A GUN? I didn't think so. Jake is insistent: the snowman has a carrot gun.
Sheds new light on Frosty, doesn't it?
The Christmas season is in full swing here, with plans for caroling with friends (shut up, they're Jake's friends and it is cool, not dorky, to carol when you're five) and most of the Christmas gifts bought. Ike and I braved the crowds at Hanes Mall and at Toys R Us and got almost everything on the list. At the beginning of the trip, I would pick up something and Ike would say, "Is that on The List?" I'd put it back, ashamed.
By the end of the day, we were sprawled out in the middle of Toys R Us, trying to figure out what we could keep, what had to go back, and how we ever got so far away from the plan on The List...
Ah...perhaps this is why I accidentally sing, "Voices screaming let's be jolly," every time I hear "Jingle Bell Rock."
The pictures at the top of the post are the first of many to which I will subject you now. Santa came early for Ike and me, perhaps because Santa feared I would forever be saying, "Take pictures and send them to me" or, "Can we borrow your camera again?"
We're now the proud owners of a digital camera, so yay! Instant gratification rocks!
21 days til Christmas. All I want you to get me is coffee. :)
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I'll have to say that the thing in this post that I'm most happy about is the news about your camera, LOL. I just love pictures :) Hey, in my defense, this is the only way I get to see you guys now!
Anyway, I too managed to once again deviate from "the plan" on the girls gift list. First of all, I refuse to get them something they'll throw down after the first week and secondly I am a sucker for a good sale. So I managed to get the biggies on the list and then get what I wanted them to have, LOL.
That is so cool that you are going Christmas Caroling! Don't let anyone tell you it is dorky! I used to LOVE to do that as a child and no one ever does it anymore! And Congrats on the camera and your new job at the STORE!! LOL
Snow?
Aroo?
Frosty, the Hit Man?? Who knew?
In case anybody is confused, the snowman was made of three styrofoam plates, black construction paper for the hands, feet, face and buttons, and orange construction paper for the carrot nose and carrot gun.
Jake has such a great imagination! Have fun caroling, I think it is cool :) And congrats on the new Camera! What is the point in wrapping it you already know what it is!!
Intervention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVOFmu2ZIqI
Oh, thanks for that clarification, Ike. I didn't even think about that...now I understand Woody's confusion...
Carrot gun? OK... I am not feeling so bad now about Matthew breaking his candy cane in 2 and then informing me that now he has a cane gun for each hand! You can't shake the 'gun' factor from that Y chromosome!
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