My four younger kids got Amazon gift cards from my mom for Christmas, and they’ve spent most of the day poring over the site trying to decide what to buy. I think they’re having just as much fun shopping as they will with whatever gifts they end up choosing.<\/p>\n
Given her tender years, Yrsa doesn’t really understand the concept of online shopping, and she understands even less the idea of waiting for her treasures to arrive, so I went ahead and picked out her presents myself. She’ll be getting a jigsaw puzzle, two books, and some markers and drawing paper, and I’m thinking that at least one of those things will serve double duty as a present for her birthday in two weeks. At not quite three, she’s still easily overwhelmed by massive quantities of gifts, and it’s generally best not to present her with more than two or three per occasion. She drove the older kids absolutely crazy on Christmas by wanting to pause and actually play with her new toys before moving on to open the next. <\/p>\n
It’s too bad that her birthday follows so closely on the heels of Christmas, but it’s not exactly as though we planned it that way. Olof’s birthday is this coming Sunday and he says it never bothered him growing up that it was so close to Christmas, and if we’re lucky, Yrsa will feel the same. Of course, there’s not much that does bother him, so his experience might not be representative.<\/p>\n
Speaking of his birthday, however, we actually have plans this year! Assuming that all of the kids are healthy, we’re going to send them off to his mom’s one evening later this week and go out for dinner and a movie. I’m not really much of a movie-going sort, but he’s got a couple of free passes that he got from work some months ago, and we really should use them. I’m not sure yet what we’ll see, but whatever it is, it’ll be nice to get out on our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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