They raided the costume box and ran through the house with walkie talkies on secret missions.
“Let’s do an ACTION POSE!”
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Pikachu
Ivan, it’s too cold to wear your porg t-shirt. You need long sleeves.
He fixed the problem by wearing an undershirt.
Ivan’s Christmas
Christmas Eve bedtime stories by the tree
Present opening. I let Ezri wake Ivan up at 9:05, she’d been up since 7 and her patience for the time of gifting was waning. She whispered, “Ivan, it’s Christmas.” He made a grumbly sound and said, “I know, Ezri.”
Santa left this porg. It is guarding a Hatchimal egg gifted by the parents.
New binoculars backwards. Mostly used so far for spying and hunting wild Pokemon in our yard.
New book from Manchi – Catstronauts Comics!
New Hogwarts house hats made by Amanda. Ezri is Hufflepuff and proud. Ivan is split Slytherin and Gryffindor.
A present Ivan made at school and wrapped for his parents. It was a block ornament decoupaged with wrapping paper and a photo of him in a Santa hat. I should’ve taken a photo of it too. But, his wrapping here was super cute.
“Do you know why I named him Cuddly?” “Because he’s cuddly.” “How did you know?” Meet cuddly the red panda.
Pancake reindeer with bacon antlers.
Chess on the *new* chess board.
Cats by the tree and Goldie the unicorn.
Outside in the snow – brrrrr.
Yeti on my head, yeti on my PJs, yeti in spaghetti
The game yeti in spaghetti is pretty fun. You try to remove spaghetti without letting the yeti drop down in the bowl. The person who drops the yeti loses. We’ve been on a yeti kick around Blau house. That plush one was $3 at Target. He’s been to school. Ivan’s read aloud to him an assortment of yeti picture books. He’s also good luck while playing yeti in spaghetti.
Belt Promotion
Ivan has rarely asked me to take his photo. After receiving his first Little Dragon belt, he really wanted a photo in the karate studio to show to people.
Here it is. Old white belt draped over shoulder. New white belt with orange stripe around his waist.
Ivan has started Little Dragon Karate classes
Hanukkah Party
Sand art menorahs and dreidels
Ivan’s dreidel is GREEN
Hammer Menorah for the unconventional materials challenge
Art activities
Time for songs with Koleynu
Santa on Sunday
We walked downtown on sunny Sunday to get peppermint ice cream at Every Day’s a Sundae.
We noticed Santa was in at his lil’ house on Main street and stopped for a visit.
Ivan was nervous and quiet as he often is with new people. Santa was patient and encouraging.
Eventually, he told Santa he’d like a porg for Christmas and a book.
Santa knew what a porg was (creature from upcoming Star Wars movie) and joked about them annoying Chewbacca on the Millenium Falcon. After asking about what kind of book he’d like and learning Ivan wanted a Dog Man book Santa asked if he liked Captain Underpants too. When the answer was yes, Santa said “Tra la LA!” just like Captain Underpants. Ivan is sold on Santa. I was proud of him for having a conversation with an adult he didn’t know well. I know it was Santa but he spoke up and smiled and it was a lot for him. Thanks, Santa, for making it a positive experience and somehow knowing about Ivan’s favorite things.
We then did our annual book angels donation at Anderson’s Bookshop.
Ivan selected a super large Just Joking book to donate to an anonymous 6 year old boy.
Ezri selected an Eerie Elementary and a Magic Animal Rescue book for an anonymous 8 year old girl.
Here’s Ivan with Santa – Tra-la-LA!
The kids have begun a holiday wish list
It’s mostly Pokemon.
