Our kids ooooed and ahhhhed when their eyes beheld Santa's unwrapped gift to each of them. After a few minutes they turned their attention to their Stockings which were bursting with creative toys, unique accessories and tasty goodies.
In reality we could have ended the festivities right there and had happy children, but the morning was just getting started. There was a colossal pile of gifts that extended far beyond the tree and so we began selecting one gift at a time, calling out the recipients name, and all watching intently as they opened their gift and showed off their loot.
Gifts seemed to be selected in random order, Garrett (4), then Grandpa, then Kate (7) then Paige (10) then Mom, etc. After a while Ryan (2) politely asked when it would be his turn. We searched for a few minutes and found a gift with his name which he excitedly opened.
As the morning progressed Ryan kept asking for gifts. At first we told him that his gifts were on the bottom of the pile and we would get to them. Then I started to get a little annoyed at his obsession with wanting to open gifts and not waiting his turn.
4 trash bags later, the neatly wrapped gifts were now piles of stuff arranged by owner. At this point we finally noticed that Ryan didn't really have a pile. Mindy swore she remembered wrapping some gifts for Ryan but...
...about 7pm on that evening I discovered a pile of gifts in my closet hidden behind some dirty clothes.
Ryan's gifts.
The poor guy watched everyone around him opening gifts and had sincerely been wondering when he was going to get one.
So Christmas evening Ryan had his own little gift opening session and all was good.
This is good training because when he gets older and loses a tooth he may have to leave it under his pillow for several nights.
6 comments:
He's gonna' be a good-lookin' tough kid alright!
Just because he's cute doesn't mean you can forget about him!!!
Mom
That is so sad. Good thing you found the stash!
I had the same thing happen to me this year, except there wasn't a forgotten stash.
So Funny!
We had the same Christmas. We, however, didn't make our kid wait until 7PM to get their pile of gifts. We slowly began finding more and more throughout the day and topped it all off by giving Sabrina a small pile of toys 2 days later. Did I mention that we are really good at hiding presents from our kids?
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