Monday, 14 December 2009

Christmas



Last year I bought the children chocolate advent calendars. When I was a child I really enjoyed opening my advent calendar and discovering what was behind that little door every day. I was expecting my children to get as much pleasure out of their advent calendars as I got out of mine, but they didn't. Instead every morning they'd wake up, walk into the lounge still half asleep, open their calendars and shove the chocolate straight down the hatch without even looking at it.

So this year I decided to buy traditional advent calendars hoping they'd get the same pleasure I did as a child.

Anyway the 1st of December arrived and at 6.30 in the morning I went skipping up the stairs to remind Theo to open his before he went to college. After lots of encouragement and me using my 'I'm really excited it will soon be Christmas voice', he eventually opened the first window to reveal.............a trumpet!

To say he was slightly underwhelmed by the experience would probably be the understatement of the century.

Levi moaned a bit, then showed a bit of enthusiasm, then didn't want to open it so I opened it, then the next day he hit the roof because I'd opened it and now I'm not sure how he feels about it.

People on the HE special list have been talking about Lego advent calendars so I think I'll try one of those next year.

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