Christmas ’09: A Summary
First, the small and boring 12 minute snippet of me trying to convince Lukas to help me open presents on Christmas morning. This year, he was completely uninterested in opening presents and more interested in candy and his new kitchen set. Also, you get to see my super stylish owl pajamas.
Christmas ’09 from Somer Canon on Vimeo.
Jessie’s parents visited us bearing loads of presents.
Among other things, they got him a train conductor’s costume,
A Chef’s costume,
And his own awesome train set!
On Christmas Eve at my mom’s house there were more presents still for the little man. They were mostly clothes,
But he had fun anyhow.
Then Santa visited our house. He left wrapped gifts under the tree, a fully loaded kitchen set, and a small table and chairs set for Mister Lukas to do his doodling and drawing. Also, there was a completely stuffed stocking with chocolate and sweets to keep temper tantrums at bay for at least two weeks.
He was excited when he saw all the new things in the family room.
But in the end, he really just wanted to dig into the contents of his stocking.
The next day, he was a little more interested in exploring some of the other toys besides the train set and kitchen set, like this awesome mat with roads on it and tons of little cars and trucks. He was a happy boy.
And as a family present we went to the Berks County Humane Society and adopted a 9-month old cat. His name at the pound was Duce, but that name reminds me too much of superstar bloggers and poop (i.e. dropping a deuce) so I renamed him Chess because he smiles at me and looks like the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland. He’s an absolute love and I’m totally glad I chose him, even though we originally went to adopt a kitten. However, as we browsed the little windows, all of the other cats completely ignored us (including the two adorable tiny kittens), but at the end, the very last cage, was a cat who jumped up when he saw us and pawed at the glass and meowed for us. When I would talk to him he would rub against the glass. When I walked away I could hear his little paws beating the glass. I wasn’t leaving there without him. So there it is. The new member of our family.
I hope everybody has a Happy New Year. I won’t be doing a year in review of 2009. This year was long, stressful, hard, and filled with too much stuff. Some of it was good, yes, but I’d rather just use all of my good thoughts to hope that 2010 will be a wonderful year.
Aschlie said,
December 30, 2009 @ 12:35 pm
Holy crap! That is an AWESOME kitchen set! It has EVERYTHING! And where in the hell did you find the veggies and fruit that you can cut with a knife???? That was AWESOME too!!!! I can see Lukas becoming a famous chef one day with the awesome shit Santa brought him! BTW…when you teach him to cut something…DON’T PUT YOUR HAND UNDER IT! LOLOLOL….when he cuts himself with a real knife later in life, I’m totally blaming you, LOL!
Lukas is soo freaking smart….it’s awesome to watch him try to put things together and figure things out. You can tell he likes to figure things out
Thanks for the video!
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Somer Canon Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
The cut up food is this wooden stuff from a toy company called Melissa and Doug. They have all kinds of weird funky toys for little kids. I’ve been getting him Melissa and Doug stuff since he was born, it’s always really neat stuff.
And the cutting himself with a real knife? You can blame it more on genetics rather than Christmas presents…..the dude is destined to be covered in scars from one thing or another…..you HAVE met his parents, right?
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Aschlie said,
December 30, 2009 @ 12:56 pm
I also LOVE the little red shirt, vest, and tie outfit!!! HOW CUTE!!!
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Somer Canon Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Jessie’s parents got him two little suit outfits that they found at Sears on sale. I had been looking ever since October (when stores started selling the little cute dressed for GIRLS to wear on Christmas) for a cute outift for him to wear this Christmas and could not find any! After Thanksgiving? Nope, still nothing. I finally got disgusted and gave up, but I’m glad that they found them! The other outfit is a blue button down shirt and tie with a pin-striped vest to go along with it. I hate that it’s so frigging hard to get clothes for boys sometimes.
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