Little bits

Most of the snottiness has left our home, and I am thrilled. I'm also thrilled that we have a short week this week--two days of school and one therapy before the fun begins. It will be nice for me to have a little change in routine. Sometimes I think I need it a lot more than the boys do.

Evan has been getting very excited about Christmas. This is the first year that he's remembered things from last year, so that has been interesting. He remembers Santa coming to his preschool, and he remembers our tree with the blue and white lights. Once all the decorations started appearing around town, Ev began to think that Christmas was probably only a day or two away and it's been difficult to convince him otherwise. I finally started telling him that Christmas doesn't come until after Thanksgiving, so now he wakes up every morning telling me he's "ready to go to Thanksgiving". I'm pretty sure he thinks Thanksgiving is a place, since we do travel to visit all of his grandparents that day. I'll have to pick up an Advent calendar to get us through the time after Thanksgiving, or it's going to be a very long December.

Because I like to add fuel to the fire, I took Evan and Grady up to the mall in Erie yesterday. I thought Ev would get a kick out of seeing all the decorations and lights, and I thought maybe we'd even try to see Santa himself. We've never done that before, as Ev has always been a little afraid of people in costume and prone to meltdown. But Ev's grown a lot in the past year, and he marched right up to Santa to say hi. That's about all he said--he stood next to Santa instead of sitting on his lap, and he didn't say anything when he was asked what he wanted for Christmas, but it was still good. Evan still enjoyed seeing him (and wouldn't stop talking about it once we left), so that was pretty special.

So the holiday season is upon us, and we're ready to go. Once the turkey gets carved on Thursday, it is on.